Silent Hill: Paint It Black [Paperback]

Scott Ciencin (Author), Shaun Thomas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 8, 2005

Painter and semi-professional slacker Ike finds his dark muse in the mist-enshrouded, monster-infested reaches of Silent Hill. Then the sexy, survivalist-trained, gun-toting cheerleader Cheryl and her teammates arrive to rock his world. Creatures attack, cheerleaders disappear, and the gloves come off! Will anything survive?

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: IDW Publishing (March 8, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932382658
• ISBN-13: 978-1932382655
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,763,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A dark macabre in to a different aspect of SH, January 30, 2008

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D. Scythe - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silent Hill: Paint It Black (Paperback)

Personally I thought this was a nice twist on the many stories that could relate to Silent Hill as the town is not made up of a linear explanation of events but rather the people that used to live there and this is one of them.

Bringing back an alternate reincarnation of Cheryl was a nice touch as well.
I know this review isn't too helpful in explaining the story but I'd rather not explain it than give away the plot. There is a more "negative" review that has the synopsis there if you'd rather read it as well.

Just thought I'd throw in my two cents on the storyline as I wasn't disappointed much like another owner was.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Silent Hill fans, just skip this one, December 30, 2005

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T. Wilson (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silent Hill: Paint It Black (Paperback)

Scott Ciencin and Shaun Thomas get together again to drag the SH franchise even deeper into the comic mud.

To call this comic a cathartic sketchbook of Shaun's imaginative pornography would be giving it too much credit. Confused? Here's the storyline...

A starving artist who specializes in "dark art" finds himself kicked out of his house and on the street. In his wanderings, he finds Silent Hill, where the monsters inside stop to pose for him while they're killing the other outsiders so that artist can paint them. He's cool with this, so he decides to stay in town.

A year later (?) a busload of cheerleader clones (lead by a girl named "Cheryl") invade the town and start redecorating his pad in pink. The standard SH monsters invade and take away some of the girls while the others throw the artist in a locked closet and dress up like the soldiers from "Aliens" (spouting quotes from said movie left-and-right).

Things slide even further downhill from there.

Once again, I'm not sure if Scott Ciencin really has a grip on telling a coherent Silent Hill story, or maybe comic books just aren't his style. Either way, his poor writing, teamed with Shaun's lack of visual storytelling talent has hit a new low with this chapter of the SH franchise.

1.0 out of 5 stars Stupid as hell., February 20, 2010

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apathetic_zombie - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silent Hill: Paint It Black (Paperback)

One of the dumbest comics I've ever read. It's got great artwork and some cool creatures, but that's where the positives stop.

The story is horribly written. It jumps around frequently and doesn't spend much time in a single spot. The main character drops "yo" in between every sentence and comes off like a complete moron.

Even if it was presented better, it would still be an awful story. Gun-toting cheerleaders rampaging the monsters of Silent Hill? Are you kidding me? The overall premise isn't great either, especially as a Silent Hill story.

If you're looking for the mood, style, and attitude of Silent Hill, it's not here. But if you're looking for a ten-year old's fan fiction about cheerleaders shooting Pyramid Heads with machine guns, this is the book for you.