Silent Hill Comic books are boring failures...
Silent Hill as a franchise was always one of the only series in gaming I actually cared enough about to create my own art centered around it. You can see that when they announced a remake of the second game I wasn't thrilled or happy about this....I was honestly pissed off...But it's not like I own any rights to the game itself otherwise I would have told them to fuck off and not allowed a remake to be made at all if I had any say in the matter. I don't trust people in today's world with anything...I'm the kind of person who gets really angry and upset if something I truly love is ruined by someone else.
Anyway the Silent Hill comic books don't include characters from the games at all other than the one about Silent Hill Downpour to tie up some parts that weren't in the game. In fact the Silent Hill Downpour comic is possibly the only one that doesn't have poor drawings that look as bad as the ones from the other comics. The art isn't fantastic, but all the others are just mediocre, low quality content at best.
It's like they were all in a hurry to make a Silent Hill comic but unlike comics based on other video game franchises, this one did horribly BAD. The artists of these books cannot draw, the stories make no sense. There was one book called "The Laughing Man" and it doesn't even look like a Silent Hill comic nor does the character on the cover of the book.
Aside from bad art direction the other problem is that there are a lot of boring story-lines that go nowhere and they don't offer any kind of mystery or excitement either about the town... To make matters worse the monsters are practically absent. It's like someone took the name Silent Hill and attached it to the cover of a book and that's the only thing you have to go by is the title...
Once you open the books and start reading the first thing you are going to notice is how terrible the drawings are. There is also that problem where you'll start asking "where the hell are the characters from the games? And who are all these random people I don't care about?" It's almost as if they aren't even in Silent Hill, although I did get something out of Silent Hill: Past Life #4 it was probably one of the few books that didn't have really bad art besides Downpour...It wasn't spectacular art but it wasn't all scribbled looking either.
Still how can you mess up a Silent Hill comic? There's so much you can do with this series in the form of a comic that it really makes no sense how every single comic was poorly done. Resident Evil had a few comics too but theirs were at least accurate to the games and the art wasn't poorly made either. They kept the original characters and made a few attempts with 3D films that weren't so great, but the 3D films were at least accurate than the live action movies where they used some bullshit Mary sue named Alice that was ripped right out of the Matrix and then thrown into a Resident Evil film that spanned six or seven movies involving that one damn protagonist.
This is what the drawings usually look like.... Holding a gun sideways... The first time I saw
Aya Brea doing that on the cover of a Parasite Eve magazine I was turned off completely... The whole "gangster" from the hood aiming is the most stupidest shit ever, especially if a cop is holding it like that...A white blond haired female cop named Aya...holding a gun sideways....
Sadly none of the plots are interesting with these books so I didn't bother to finish every single comic. I got through most of them but was very disappointed with all of them. The characters are all dull and forgettable just like Henry Townsend was in SH4 The Room. The games also had that same problem with the characters having dish water personalities, though a remake wouldn't really elevate them because no one serious would do anything with them outside of the video games in the first place.
The big difference between my own story Shadow Hill and Konami's Silent Hill is that Shadow Hill takes place in a Gothic town of three seasons. Fall, Winter, and Spring but it's always Christmas and Halloween. I didn't want to do the town Silent Hill because the town is too small and I wasn't that interested in it either...I wanted a larger location and I preferred a Gothic European town something strange and different over a bland foggy American town based on a location in real life that was over-exaggerated quite a lot.
My vision of Silent Hill is more controversial and darker than anything these comics could have thought up. While the series itself have always covered topics on abuse, abductions, brainwashing, occultism, and so forth. The comics nor the video games deeply explore these things all that well, but it doesn't really matter to me anyway. I enjoyed Silent Hill for what it was in the early 2000s, and never liked the first game at all. I missed out on The Room but watched playthroughs of it and hated the gameplay because of how sloppy, lazy, and sluggish it was even though melee combat was always terrible until Homecoming fixed, improved and made it better...
Then a bunch of idiot bitched and called it "too action heavy" rather than appreciating the Western devs at the time for at least making melee fights fun for once in SH...The melee attacks looked painfully slow in all the other games..... Henry fights like a 90 year old man. I believe I stopped at downpour and I didn't even finish it, instead I let my brother play it and beat it because it was boring as hell for a Silent Hill game.
But after I had time to go over that recent SH game called "The Message" I kept wondering why is it that everything Modern feel so predictable and forced? The game is pretty much a lazy ass first person dungeon room crawler like most crappy new age horror games these days. P.T. started this stupid trend then Capcom decided to steal it for RE7 and RE8 but figured they would just add a third person mode for RE8 and repackage the whole game as "new," because Capcom loves to rip off people. As a franchise I believe Silent Hill is one of the few games that should be left alone and never remade.
