#the slasher's apprentice

[jkparkin]

The Slasher's Apprentice #3 (Mad Cave Studios, July 2025) cover by Val Halvorson

[smashpages]

Out this week: The Slasher’s Apprentice #1 (Mad Cave Studios, $4.99): 

Justin Richards and Val Halvorson tell the story of a horror podcaster’s attempts to gain an internship with her favorite legendary serial killer.

See what else is coming to your local comic shop this week!

[sirberz]

imagine that you somehow offended john kramer and now 3 vampire apprentices are eating you VAMPIRE AU!!!

[klovercrown]

Obsessed with the editing in Saw ♥️

[slasherflicks999]

erm what is slashers relationship with the other creepypastas :3c

before we begin im so sorry this took me legitimately SOOOO disgustingly long to answer holy SHART 💔💔💔 i needed to solidify some of his relationships ngl and i didn’t wanna give a half baked answer :,33 but now that it’s finally hereee…..

slasher room reveal GASP yes he’s sitting at his little computer answering this for u personally :3 i wanted to make it more fun hehe plus background practice…… thank u the sims 4…,,.,,

but anyway THE LITTLE CHIBI THINGS OF THEM WERE SO FUN TO DRAW and also nina with glasses canon i don’t make the rules sorry she’s just too cute with them :,,o

i haven’t been active much at all lately unfortunately BUTTTT more slasher content is soon to come..,.😈😈 TRUSTTTT i shan’t abandon thee tumblr my beloved :333🫶🏻

[psychogirl94]

🔪🔪 Leaders of Horror Slasher Comeback 🔪🔪

[frogyjones-art]

Fuck cringe culture, make SAW ocs. Dee (left) belongs to @nimblepickles on twt

[echo-writes-things]

SAW CHARACTERS FAVORITE CUDDLING POSITIONS?!

Mark Hoffman:

“I don’t like cuddling” proceeds to lay on top of you

He likes to pretend he’s all mysterious and doesn’t like touching people but he’s the most touchiest bitch out there

Loves holding hands or linking arms

Loves to lay his head on someone’s stomach or chest, will probably cry

Lawrence Gordon:

Not very good at initiating touch

Starts sweating at the thought of attempting to hold someone’s hand first

But if someone offers he fuckin JUMPS at it

Also a head on stomach or chest guy, I think he likes being the big spoon too. Loves resting his chin on someone’s head

Adam Stanheight:

Touch starved but hates affection prove me wrong🫵

He needs hug but is too emotional to admit it or ask for one

But the moment someone he likes does hug him or hold his hand HE IS NOT LETTING GO

Likes holding hands

Not big on cuddles but will place a hand on your arm or something

Amanda Young:

ROWBOAT‼️ (it’s where one person sits behind and one in front and the person behind holds the person in front. Like sitting in a canoe)

She needs touch from someone so she knows they don’t hate them

Tap her shoulder, hold her hand, poke her arm SOMETHING she needs it

Death grip on this woman I swear to god she could strangle a person if she tried

She loves tight holds. If she squeezes y’all better squeeze back

Peter Strahm:

Aggressive hand holding

His hands are always in a cold sweat I can’t explain why he just does

His head in the crook of someone’s neck and he’s thriving

Only in private though. It’s not that he’s embarrassed by PDA but he can’t shut off the work brain during the day so he just doesn’t think about affection during the day. Once it’s night he’s ready to pass out holding or being held

Loves snuggling and watching a movie but he’s super busy so it’s rare

[gutzwulf]

A Michael Myers pony from my flash!

Instagram 🔪🎃

[slimylayne]

Lil Jason mask for spooky season 🔪😌

[jkparkin]

The Slasher's Apprentice #2 (Mad Cave Studios, June 2025) cover by Val Halvorson

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The Slasher's Apprentice #1 kicks off an intriguing concept #comics #comicbooks

[mangyraccooon]

Vivian Nefertari :The blue blood butcher :Queen of alabasta and warlord of paradise

Age : none of your business

Height : 6 ft (supposedly)

Yes, her granddaughter was named after her. Vivi has fond memories of being taught to use her peacock slashers by her grandparents.

She took Dragon on as her “apprentice” he stumbled into her palace as a child and she was amused by him.

She is a great queen, as a teacher and mother.. not so much

[notadreamurr]

And then an anvil fell on them.

Slasher au by @justwantswafflefries

Some saw saw x tadc below (gore warning, maybe?)

I'm gonna keep working on this over time, and I'll randomly update this. I'll probably draw them in more traps than just the ones their canonically in just for giggles.

Canonical traps

I am gonna now go on a saw tangent because I'd like to share this. I hate saw 3D! I think it's the worst saw movie besides Spiral (I don't even consider Spiral to be a Saw movie), which sucks because I think it has some of the best traps in the entire franchise! Like the silent circle! That trap is easily in my top 3! It's still hard for me to watch! Oh, and we finally got to see the reverse bear trap in action! That was so dope!! But the actual movie SUCKED (in my opinion) saw 3D spoilers ig. But I HATED that Jill had to die in this shitty movie. I thought her dead was really good, but she could have died in ANY other movie! And, Mark Hoffman was turned into a shitty slasher like why?! And Gordon! Like it kinda made sense ig but it really felt like it came out of nowhere! He suddenly shows up and is an apprentice?! Even though this movie has amazing traps, it also has the public execution trap, which I believe is the STUPIDEST saw trap in the entire franchise. It is in public for literally NO reason. And why is the girls shirt ripped open?? It's literally just fan service. (same for Jill's dream death. There's a fake boob for no reason. it's just there to be there.) This movie also had that lame lawn mower trap, like how did that couple get there?! Did they just wake up hanging from that chain? Finally, the brazen bull trap SUCKS! And it's not even the trap that sucks I think it's actually pretty cool! I just HATE how Bobby's wife is in the trap! Why?! She had nothing to do with this!! Like at least all the other people that Bobby had tried to save knew he was a liar! She didn't know!! she was just a nice lady who supported her husband! Saw 3D was supposed to be the last movie, and I'm so glad it wasn't. I'm so glad a series that I love so much. Did not end on such a shitty note! I don't want ya'll to think I hate saw, I love it! It holds a special place in my heart. Saw 1 was the first horror movie I ever watched. I just hate saw 3D! It's cool if you like it, tho. I just think it's junk. (Saw 6 is my favorite if you care)

[maxwell-grant]

Any thoughts on AKI in SF6?

I haven't had a chance to play the game yet and I might do a more thorough look into the newcomers after I do sit through World Tour, but yeah I got some AKI thoughts. Holy shit what a design. Top 15-20 in the series, it is one hell of a different thing to watch it animated by the character's personality and moveset and vibe. We expected some FANG-isms, some Juri-isms, but certainly not that. We expected a cold, even generic assassin, not someone who merrily treats the penal code like a list of chores.

It was pretty funny seeing the reaction to her develop from "oh she's FANG's apprentice, okay I guess, not sure anyone was asking for that", to "is she the new Juri, she's got a really similar vibe", to "holy shit Juri's got NOTHING on her". In reaction to her popularity, SF6 had been doing a lot of great character work on Juri that, while making her much more developed and entertaining as a character (cringe failgirl Juri was such a revelation) and dramatically more interesting as a person, also really limits the extent to which she can be a straight-up villain anymore. Much like how FANG was designed to fill the void left by Sagat, AKI here crashed the scene to fill the void left by Juri, and so she gets to be not just completely 100% horrible (where as Juri is like, 70-80% horrible), but also SCARY in a way Juri never could be. She gets so, so much out of not being designed for sex appeal and coolness first and foremost, she's like the D'Vorah to Juri's Mileena.

She's a horrible, predatory character, and much like Marisa, I don't think she would have been allowed at all to exist the way she does had she debuted prior (you just know they would have not given her those sick ass pants or given her a different haircut or a cleavage window or something stupid like that). The development team for V repeteadly stated that there were ideas for a new assassin apprentice character related to Gen thrown around and that some of those made their way into FANG and Seth, and AKI is the end result of that very long refinement process. She's the resident freakshow character in the tradition started by Blanka and Dhalsim, and she's the outrageous over-the-top counterpoint to the more traditional martial arts like Chun-Li or even Jamie (much like Adon, or Necro). She's the understudy of the kung fu assassin villain, and in a way akin to Menat she's the young new apprentice of a prior character who acts as a stand-in for that character on the roster and driven to prove her worth before said character, while also being a modern do-over of said character.

(And for the record I actually like FANG quite a bit, a lot more than most of the other V characters. He played like garbage and his execution was lacking and couldn't make up for a terrible first impression in the fanbase, but the design and character and concept I thought were very solid and I'm glad AKI shows they didn't give up on it but took steps to improve on it, I'm glad to see him again in 6).

She breaks new ground for the series by leaning strongly into a horror wraith vibe no other character had before, and she's the Street Fighter equivalent to characters like Voldo, a horrible contortionist slasher villain who doesn't fight you so much as she just passionately and exquisitely butchers you while getting off on it. Her moves are incredible, superbly characterized, she feels vicious and oppressive to watch but still hits that note on FANG's where the playstyle is meant to be tricky but overspecialized and beatable at close range. And while she's designed to be a much more explicitly serious and deadly-looking character than FANG, they even give her goofy little flourishes like blowing bubbles shaped like FANG (and getting pissed if you pop them), his propensity for bird-like arms flapping, and an uncharacteristically childish victory dance akin to Chun-Li's.

She is as cadaverous as Juri is tempestuous, openly referring to herself as a ghost, and when she isn't losing her shit in contorting fits of laughter over success, she has a remarkably chill, upbeat disposition when spouting horrible things to the protagonist or fake poisoning them for laughs. She has an incredibly distinct personality more so than any especially developed inner life, and that's kinda the point: that she has wholly and completely sublimated herself to her role as FANG's tool, by choice and intent of her own, and that's part of why she's a real deal villain.

She was raised by him, she likes what he likes, she is obsessed with everything he is and has done and will do, hates everyone that isn't him, considers him her master and teacher and father and husband all in one, and her romantic fixation and love for him is meant to be deeply disturbing in every way imaginable (and only not a total dealbreaker for me because FANG in no way reciprocates or encourages it or is able to do so, even AKI understands as much), and that they may eventually have to kill each other doesn't deter her one bit.

Despite those surface similarities, there is quite a lot that sets AKI apart from Juri, chief of those being that Juri was victimized by Shadaloo and in response fashioned herself into an instrument of vengeance and turned monstrous as a result, where as AKI actively chose her life and chose being molded by someone else, running away from home and following FANG every step of the way without any regret. Even FANG himself had little choice in his own life, kidnapped as a child and forced to partake in horrible training under which every day could be his last, raised to value nothing but survival at all costs.

Perhaps this in itself is the strength that FANG saw in AKI, that she gets to choose and does so with far greater intent than even himself. That she's someone who could fully understand the horribleness of the Nguuhao methods and lifestyle and want for that and nothing else, to consciously partake in such grueling torture of mind and body and lovingly decide that she can't get enough of it.

And in itself this pairs interestingly with the very idea of giving FANG a dedicated protege sidekick, a character beat that the series has come back to again and again, and takes on an entirely different tone here. I think a lot of what makes AKI's obsession interesting to me in a way these usually aren't, is not just because it's creepy, but because it's ultimately sad and pathetic, and parallels FANG's own craven worship of Bison. It's such a great dynamic, a miserable cycle perpetuated by miserable people caught on the wrong side of that glorification of self-improvement, inner strength and the great heroes and masters who can pass it onto others that the series uses so frequently, and it makes AKI even greater as a character for it: because now we have a true dark mirror for the driving motivation of many of our characters. We have our fucked-up toxic counterpart to every Sakura, Mika, Menat, and Sean out there.

She sees him as he saw Bison and more, and the fact that she is much more threatening and overtly competent and scary than FANG is offset by the fact that worshipping Bison is a wholly different thing than worshipping, y'know, FANG. We comprehend, on some level, FANG's worship, because M.Bison is supposed to be, at minimum, a cool imposing megavillain we're meant to like on some level, which is certainly not true for FANG. SF6 has been very clear on that, that even though he's been given a much slicker outfit, and is keeping a low profile to plot from behind the scenes, this is still very much FANG, every bit the conniving, petty control freak from before.

AKI is a cool, hypercompetent death machine able to scare the pants off the main villain, and she labors desperately day and night, to the point of crying if she fails, to meet the approval of a ridiculous, pathetic man who, no matter how deceptively cunning or dangerous he may be, is only cool to her. Much of why I think FANG worked and was necessary in the first place was because he was designed around the vacuum left by the Four Kings and to contrast them, as what kind of man would it take to work himself ragged running Bison's schemes and being unfailingly loyal to him and Shadaloo, opposite Vega and Balrog's sporadic barely-there alliances and Sagat's outright betrayal. We needed an anti-Sagat, a proper bastard of a Number 2 to run the show in secret. And AKI adds a lot of poignancy to that in that she is much of what FANG can't be, even as she wants nothing more than to be like him.

It's one thing to have somebody who really looks up to and makes an effort to imitate the cool and impressive and heroic World Warriors, or someone influenced by imposing villains like Balrog or Sagat but ultimately decides to carve their own path. It's another thing entirely for maybe THE most obsessive protege character in the series, someone who actively has no identity outside of servitude to her master, to revolve around FANG, the dastardly bird man, who made his debut in a story by hunting down and melting an innocent woman, and grossly and animastically licking her ashen remains off his fingers. What kind of person would decide that this sickening, vile creep is deserving of worship and following until the ends of the Earth?

(art by @remy2fang)

Well, maybe the same kind of person who would consciously look at the likes of M.Bison in the first place, someone they intuitively understand "will reign death on all living beings", and upends their life on the spot towards becoming that man's eternal servant. Someone who seeks self-fulfillment through no other means than the pursuit of strength and knowledge as tools to subjugate others and appease their master. The darkest corruption of the master-student dynamic that defines so much of the series. You couldn't ask for anything more fitting, for the poison specialists.

[dr-spectre]

I've brought some Halloween treats for you all. My Halloween/Splatoween looks for my OCs!!!! (I know I'm late but I don't care. It's still Halloween.)

Sunny: "The Yellow Devil" (No connection to the Mega Man boss of the same name)

V: "Glow fish Slasher"

Hapalo: "Hopping Vampire"

Bloom: "Judd's apprentice"

Lilly: "Deep Fried Freak"

Shinobu: "Eight-Legged Mummy"