Silent Hill Comics..
I spoke about the lack of explicit SH content before, but I wanted to
talk about it again. This time related to the comics. Silent Hill is a
series I have always enjoyed up until they started losing value gameplay
and storytelling-wise. People might blame the Western studios for this,
but let's be reasonable...Silent Hill 4 The Room wasn't Team Silent's
best project...It was their worse.
Anyway, after awhile, a few artists started to put out a fair amount of Silent Hill comic books but what's the problem? Why didn't anyone do anything for maturer audiences that expected more? I said it once and I'll say it one more time...Silent Hill's world when compared to the likes of Resident Evil never had that much variety in women...
SH had always been at war with RE...and RE always outperformed it because Konami refused to evolve. It wasn't just the women, in general Resident Evil had a lot of characters, that were more detailed personality wise and became instantly likable by fans..Silent Hill tried to go the "every man" route so producing normal human characters is a hell of a lot harder than creating ones who are practically supernatural as the shit they are going up against...
Konami always chose the same direction with each installment, and made little effort to improve upon it..The characters continued to get flatter and boring as the game slowly faded into obscurity. The every man concept just doesn't work for every situation either. So characters were often dull personality-wise and that really gave people little to work with which ended up making everyone in the SH universe forgettable.
Heather was the only female character that barely stayed relevant..I hated Heather and always wanted Claudia to be the famous one. I think another issue is a lot of the people in Silent Hill looked like drug addicts...The women had this crack whore appeal about them with dark circles under their eyes...While everyone in Resident Evil looked like they had their act together, including the villains.
Unlike Resident Evil, Silent Hill characters had only one chance to make a first impression, and if that character failed or didn't exactly catch on the first time... They were finished and forgotten about. Unpopular characters never appear in explicit content because artists are going to go for whoever is used or noticed the most. At least that's how it works in the pornographic nature of things..
I wouldn't recommend this for anyone looking for a serious Horror Erotic experience. I actually like this one though, it helped me get through a difficult time. When I can't think straight, laughter helps ward off the negative thoughts when sex fails. This did exactly that for me. The humor is great, not sure if this is a full comic though..I found it by complete accident.
The Silent Hill comics that were released some time ago, none of them contained any graphic or hardcore explicit content and the stories revolved around different characters which means they could have introduced appealing characters no one knew about. The books are quite tame compared to most adult-themed comic books and Mangas that don't hold back on the explicit nature of things judging from what I have seen.
I'm not one of those people that believe that sexual material will make every story great. Although in the line of work that I do, sexual material is the selling point and is equally as important as everything else. So yes it does matter. Those are the kind of Silent Hill stories I want to see and read, explicit and maturer.
So far there have been a small number of obscure explicit-themed Silent
Hill comics that were drawn by various different artists. I covered this
before,
just not in thorough detail. I will say it's a great start, the more we
have access to the better because horror Erotic stories are so
fascinating to read when they are done correctly by people that truly
understand the direction we must go to improve one of the greatest
genres ever. People also shouldn't rely strictly on Silent Hill's lore
to tell a story, lore tends to limit and restrict things A LOT.
When
I started working on my own Silent Hill inspired project titled Shadow
Hill. I didn't want to copy the lore from Silent Hill, there are some
things in the story from Silent Hill that influenced Shadow Hill sure,
but the whole story is 90% different from the lore in the Silent Hill
games...This means my story is something you don't know anything about
aside from the few details, I revealed in previous blogs about it or the
information on one of the character profiles. The things I spoke of
before, can be changed to eliminate spoilers easily.
You might be
thinking The Order in Shadow Hill is The Order from Silent Hill in disguise, but they are not
the same cult/religious sect. They have their own objective and it's
got nothing to do with the Order from Silent Hill even though they are
mentioned a few times...You may notice one part of town seems empty, and
there's fog with nobody around to talk to, then you take a turn to a
different neighborhood in Shadow Hill and notice someone mowing their
lawn or raking leaves in the freezing cold. You may ask them a question
and get the cold shoulder or an uncomfortable stare...This is a town
where outsiders aren't welcomed.
They may look at you differently because you are not from around town,
and they don't like or trust outsiders especially people that love to
snoop around asking a lot of questions. It's a keep to yourself and mind
your own goddamn business or something horrible will happen to you if
you don't kind of place. You may be convinced Shadow Hill is an
American town just because some areas look like it could be when you're
really in some fictional Romanian town with villages and cottage houses
on most blocks and large buildings from a distance you're forbidden from
visiting without permission. Because it's not entirely so country up
there, it's got a city life to it too.
And you might think
Claudia Wolf is the same religious obsessed nutcase who constantly
preaches about paradise and bringing back GOD to purify the world of all
of its evils and problems..Why would she have the same motives? She's
got a new agenda to see through and Paradise is not a term I want to use
to define what her new goals are.
I wanted my own Silent Hill
theme different from the game with a few key similarities. I didn't want
everything to be centered around something someone else already did
before that you already know about. This is my vision, therefore expect
the unexpected when we get there. If people want 100% SH lore they can
play the game or watch the movie, Shadow Hill has its own lore and
disturbing history. I want it to make sense, but I also want it to be
exciting too.
But what exactly could make a good Silent Hill themed story geared toward a maturer crowd interesting in the form of a comic? Quite simple really, Silent Hill may not be as big as Resident Evil, and the games certainly lack appealing women characters, but changes can go a long way to improve many things. The harder part is writing the story contents...Even I struggle with that.
However, none of this matters if the artist producing the content can get creative. You can always rebuild a generic character and make them better..I have attempted this many times myself. And producing story driven material, makes it even easier to develop characters. There aren't that many Silent Hill comics for those looking for a dirty horror experience, but so far the best one is titled "The End Of Location." It has the best looking female Pyramid Head I've seen so far. With huge knockers, now let's say the creators had made Pyramid head a female from the start instead of a male, and they gave her the big breast treatment like a certain someone from a game with the title "Village" in it lol...
Busty female pyramid head would gain instant fame overnight. Then Lady D would have competition...I'm almost positive people would still probably prefer Lady D just because you can see her face..That oversized Pyramid helmet would have been better as something less distracting for female Pyramid head to compete...Then again I could be wrong. I honestly felt like Pyramid head was a bore when compared to someone like Nemesis from RE3 so I never understood all the hype he got...I think the movies is what made him relevant and not the game. He looked like shit in SH2 compared to the film version.
His original design in SH2 was terrible and goofy as hell, yet he didn't start to look like a threat until the damn movie version of him was introduced, which everyone prefers...It's like saying, Westerners made him sexier and threatening the way they made the nurses sexier and still dangerous than what the Japanese creators did with them...
The End Location had lots of story potential, although there are no futa's present I still give the story and the art direction a grade A rating due to the fact the person who created it, at least tried to do something refreshing with Silent Hill. We need more Silent Hill Comics like this but with plenty of variety and different ideas, the original comics like The Grinning Man...weren't exactly horror-oriented enough for my liking.With all the monsters and things you could do, it surprises me as to why there aren't enough explicit versions of Silent Hill produced. The art direction is good on its own based on content I have seen from a lot of the Silent Hill comics. I think if Heavy Metal comics were the ones behind them, we would have better material with plenty of graphic content to keep us on the lookout for more of it. They not only write good stories, but they also produce the best damn art with attitude, even their stuff from the 1970s held up really well. These are the same publishers that did something for Megadeth and Iron Maiden. You can't tell me that they can't pull off Silent Hill.
In this day and age, Horror Erotica can go as far as we want it to go as long as people don't get offended too easily and the authors don't hold back on what it is they are willing to do or won't do. Some people will have a problem with specific content and ideas even in a fictional sense. Stories like Silent Hill benefit from uncomfortable themes that should never be excluded under any circumstances. You have to ask yourself if you want a watered-down horror erotic story with tame graphic images or are you bold enough to seek out the content that will challenge your comfort zone?
It just requires a lot of experimenting, people don't like teasers or stories that end so soon when they are just getting good either. Putting aside fears and expectations, I have a lot of high hopes for producing my own Silent Hill inspired series, and I know it won't disappoint because I intend to make it as disturbing as I can possibly get it to be. It'll have police, misguided individuals, Nuns and their forbidden lifestyles, a dark place with its own unique history and backstory, If I get lucky, I'll bring in some of the monsters...You cant have a Silent Hill experience without frightening creatures.
The art direction is too cartoony, I would rather prefer a much more darker serious undertone for a Silent Hill Comic.
For years I looked forward to getting my hands on anything explicit
related to Silent Hill, and I spoke about it on a number of occasions. I
think a lot of artists, in general, don't think much about these sorts
of things..It's always been about taking less risk for the majority that
refuses to push back when backed into a corner... I've seen artists
attempt to do horror stories only to have the female outright give into
the monster's sexual urges and desires rather than resisting...When
Affect3D approached me a few years ago about posting some of my work on
their site, I turned them down because they were too soft.
I
didn't care about fame so much as I did regarding what I was allowed to
post on their website...Because just like a lot of artistic platforms,
they were sensitive with this weak censorship shit. And I felt offended
by the fact they love to play around with horror because they won't do
it the correct way...It's part of the reason a lot of their "horror"
content is a joke to me...They think just because they use monsters it
counts as horror...That would be like calling the TV show Munsters a
Horror show just because it's got a disturbing family in it, yet it's
tame enough to let a 5-year-old watch it.
