Silent Hill: Past Life #1

[stolisomancer]

The Silent Hill series, like most everything else, got a fair share of spinoffs once it got popular. The comics, however, were almost all awful, as one of the abiding characteristics of Silent Hill tie-ins is that they're inevitably done by people who don't understand why the games work as well as they do. The key is that the best games in the series are more psychological than anything else, and the people working on Silent Hill: Past Life seem to actually get that.

Past Life began a few months ago, and is set in the years immediately following the Civil War, when Silent Hill and the towns surrounding it are still small and largely unremarkable. Jebediah, a former soldier and outlaw with a violent past, is coming to Silent Hill with his pregnant wife Esther to make a fresh start.

Silent Hill loves that kind of thing.









The art changes here for a few pages from Menton J. Matthews to Riley Rossmo. Menton3 does the art for most of the rest of the series.

Comments

[q99]

I think whoever runs the SH line thinks it's scary/atmospheric.

[nezchan]

You misspelled "ruins".

[q99]

Zing :)

Yea, they really don't get the games. And mostly give work to one particular author who did a long series of non-SH style stories (which Linkara reviewed a lot of).