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

[mullon]

Why does every goddamn Silent Hill comic look like that? Is clear art so much to ask?

[icon_uk]

I'm liking the Menton3 style...

[just_kazari]

I like the Menton style.. it's a bit clearer than the other SH comics were. And then it switched artists and went back to being 'artsy' while sacrificing clear and non-eye-hurting narrative.

[darkknightjrk]

Man...leave it to Silent Hill to make a line about racial equality sound hella creepy in its context.

[sindra]

Yeeeees! I was hoping someone would post scans of this on here and my prayers were answered!

I was fortunate enough to read a in-depth review over at helldescent.com, and this sounds like the closest thing to the atmosphere of original games as we could hope for.

I'll wait for a trade to be made, but I will definitely pick this line up.

[likeaminx]

I feel like the only person in the world who enjoyed the Silent Hill comics.

Actually, I should amend that. I liked Silent Hill: Paint It Black . The rest of it... Eh, not so much. But Paint It Black is really fun for me. The art is pretty awesome too.

ANYWAY on topic, this series shows promise.

[blackruzsa]

I like the art for its style matching the feel of the comic.
Bah, I may wanna buy this.