For ten years, State Trooper Robert Tower has patrolled mist-enshrouded Silent Hill and never seen its nightmarish demonic creatures. But now the gun-slinging, double-barreled terror known as the Grinning Man has arrived. Horror is unbound and innocents caught in its explosive crossfire. For Tower, it's going to be a hell of a last day.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
They still don't get it.,
This review is from: Silent Hill: The Grinning Man (Paperback)
I am a diehard Silent Hill fan. I greatly disliked Dying Inside. I did not bother to read the next two comics.
But I actually preordered this book. I was that hopeful that IDW might, just might, finally sit Scott Ciencin down and force him to actually play the games and deliver something worthy of the Silent Hill name. I really wanted to give it a chance. Then the book arrived, with a beautiful Garner/Templesmith cover. I was still hopeful. Then I actually read the book. I want my $7.50 and that half-hour of my life back. IDW still has no clue what a Silent Hill story should be, and it's never been so glaringly obvious. I did a count, and I believe the F-bomb was dropped an average of once every 2.8 pages over the course of the book beginning right on page one. In addition to the gratuitous language, there's totally gratuitous explosions, hokey magic, wooden characters, nonsensical exchanges, stupid dialogue, and 48 pages of still more proof that Scott Ciencin learned everything he knows about Silent Hill by reading bad fanfic and the backs of the game boxes. To his credit, he has at least seemed to finally understand that a Silent Hill protagonist should be, at root, a normal everyday human being. Also, he attempted some character development this time. He still needs to play the games--and UNDERSTAND THEM--before he even thinks about writing another Silent Hill story. And the art... oh God, where to begin? You go from that beautiful Garner/Templesmith cover... to Nick Stakal's work, which looked like it was inked with a Q-tip and a broken toothpick. I've seen better anatomy and proportion from Rob Liefeld. Half the time you can't tell the protagonist and his mini-me apart. Most of the time he didn't bother with backgrounds. And the coloring... oh, the coloring. This has to be the laziest color job I've ever seen. It looks like someone spilled tea on Bristol board, sprinkled Kool-Aid powder on it, let it dry, scanned it, and then flopped the inks on top of it in Photoshop. And then there's at least one page where the inks from one panel are copied and pasted over a different mess of washes two and three times. I get annoyed when amateur webcomic artists do obvious copy/pastes like that; it's completely inexcusable from a pro. In short, The Grinning Man is bad Silent Hill fanfiction, badly illustrated, and how Konami approved this mess of sloppy scribbles and corny dialogue is way beyond me.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
The latest SH story fails to pull itself from the comic mud,
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This review is from: Silent Hill: The Grinning Man (Paperback)
The Grinning Man is an interesting concept, recycling the idea from the first SH comic series that a person with enough magical knowledge can somehow take over the town and bend it to his whims.
Who is the Grinning Man? Sadly, he's a bad "Crow" knock-off with poor dialog and no backstory. Instead, the book focuses on a cop who's one day from retirement and his new partner. Lethal Weapon jokes aside, the story tries to add a human perspective on the town. Instead of being a place of madmen and nightmares, Silent Hill is an abandoned town to the outside world. It's a place for runaways and drug addicts that never reveals its true face to the people who want to believe the lie. Once again, we have a SH comic book trying to cram a novel's worth of info into a hundred muddy panels of over-stylized artwork. If you want to know what it's like to read The Grinning Man, go drink a gallon of milk and video yourself running until you vomit. Afterwards, go watch that shakey videotape full of mucus and bile. It should be a perfect stand-in for this book, and at least you'd be getting some exercise.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Eh...,
This review is from: Silent Hill: The Grinning Man (Paperback)
Thankfully, the author calms down a bit for this comic. He takes his time, fleshing out details and developing interesting characters. Unlike Among the Damned, I actually understood what the hell was happening for the whole comic.
Artwork is okay, but not as good as the previous comics. At least it's easy to follow. But as for the story, it's nothing great. I wouldn't call it bad, but it's nothing notably special. It sports an okay concept but it doesn't really feel... Silent Hillish at all. So far, these comics have been seriously breaking from the original source material. I don't understand why they felt the need to do that, but these stories absolutely don't work with the original games or the movie. I could live with that if these stories presented something worthwhile, but so far Dying Inside, Among the Damned, Paint it Black, and The Grinning Man haven't been much to write home about.
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