Silent Hill Dead/Alive
Written by Scott Ciencin, art by Nick Stakal, covers by Ted McKeever, Nick Stakal, Scott Keating and Steven Perkins.
There are a lot of reasons I don't like kids. Christabella is only eight years old, but she is pure evil and undead. She plans to gain total power and control from the spirits in the fog covered, ashen ruins of the town of Silent Hill. A vicious evil child, capable of all sorts of mischief, guile and horror.
That is what children are; and Christabella makes most of them look like a
Friday night comedy team on network TV. This story is (again) based on the Konami
video game, and takes us back to the town of Silent Hill where a dark religious
group set out to bring an ancient god back to life to bring Hell on Earth, but
in a massive fight between the forces of good and the forces of evil (aren't
they all 'massive'? I would like to see a fight between good and evil using
cream pies) brought about the death by fire of practically the whole town.
Now, the once thriving and happy town is filled with the undead and terrors
unlike any you have imagined or seen.
This five issue series uses characters from Dying Inside to pull the story together
in a reasonable fashion. Dr. Abernathy returns, as does Lauryn and her sister
Christabella.
Lauryn want to control or destroy Christabella, but escapes in the form of a
human child with almost no power. She meets Lenora, a witch who also wants to
bring Hell to earth through actor Ken Carter.
With artwork that borders on the sublime while reaching into the macabre Nick
Stakal takes the reader on a journey into a world that Dario Argento would have
been proud of. Or maybe Rod Serling in his heyday.
But that wild and barely controlled artwork fits this story; Stakal uses it
to snare the reader, pulling them deeper and deeper into the world of terror
that is Silent Hill.
Wonderful book.
May he with the most evil win.