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The Hashishian
HASHISHIAN: assassin - hashishiyyin "hashish-users". A fanatical Ismaili Muslim sect of the time of the Crusades, under leadership of the "Old Man of the Mountains" with a reputation for murdering opposing leaders after intoxicating themselves by eating hashish.
Harris said the name comes from a sect of assassins during the Crusades who were sent out to perform assassinations "drugged out of their minds," Harris said.
"But that's not exactly what our story is about," he added. It's about two Brooklyn stoners who find a magical stash of marijuana, and when they smoke it, "they have flashbacks to the 12th century where these characters were alive and well and doing their duty," he said. The owner of the pot, one of these 12th century assassins, shows up and hunts them down to reclaim his pot - later they learn he's there to assassinate the president. - Newsarama
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Writer: Joe Harris
Artist: Trevor McCarthy
Coming 2009
Oni Press
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- Oni Press panel report
From San Diego Comic Con 2008

