Silent Hill Day – Linkara’s Reviews October 25, 2012

As we wrap up Silent Hill Day here on gamexcess.net lets take a quick assessment of everything we’ve talked about.  We’ve talked about the movies.  We’ve talked about the games.  We’ve even talked about the theme park attractions.  Now, lets talk about the comics!

Lewis Lovhaug, better known to the internet as Linkara, is the creator of Atop the Fourth Wall, a comic review site which is a staple of That Guy with the Glasses.  He is probably one of the greatest comic book reviewers on the internet.  His ability to point out inconsistencies and mistakes in the story, mostly due to bad writers, is the best that I’ve ever seen, and it keeps me coming back to his site each and every week.

Lets start with he beginning shall we?  The first Silent Hill related comic book review he had done was for Silent Hill: Dying Inside.  A comic miniseries where a story was explored that had nothing to do with the games and was completely inconsistent with the town we all knew and loved, well, except for the appearances of some of the monsters.

The videos are arranged in three-part series.  In the first part he reviews the first two issues and you can watch it here, in the second part he reviews parts three and four and you can watch that here, and in the final part he reviews the fifth and final issue and you can watch that here.  If  you’re interested in seeing any alternate endings to the video series you can watch them here for some laughs.

I watched his review very shortly after completing Silent Hill 2 for the first time and thought the opening bit he did for the second part where he perfectly parodied the SH2 opening cinematic needed to be seen by anyone who played that game.  I’ve been told that some of the issues from Dying Inside have been digitized and are included in The Silent Hill Experience UMD Video for the PSP in case you’re interested in checking out the series for yourself, or you can just look for the graphic novel.

The Silent Hill series quickly became a Halloween staple of his site.  The next Halloween, he reviewed the direct sequel series to Silent Hill: Dying Inside, Silent Hill: Dead/Alive.  Like with the previous review he reviewed the miniseries in three parts.  Part 1 included issues 1 and 2 and you can watch it here, Part 2 reviewed issues 3 and 4 and you can watch it here, and finally Part 3 reviewed issue 5 and you can watch that here.  Yes, there are alternate endings to this series as well and you can watch them here.

However, that wasn’t the end of Silent Hill comics.  In fact, Silent Hill: Dead/Alive referenced several other Silent Hill comic series we hadn’t seen yet.  Last October, Linkara reviewed the other Silent Hill comics that took place between Dying Inside and Dead/Alive.  They were smaller in length, so only one video was devoted to each individual story.  Silent Hill: Paint it Black is reviewed here,  Silent Hill: Among The Damned is reviewed here, and Silent Hill: The Grinning Man is reviewed here.

But don’t think that Linkara hated all of the Silent Hill comics.  There actually was a series that he liked a lot, and that was Silent Hill: Sinner’s Reward.  You can check out his review of Sinner’s Reward here.  Since it is a good comic, it didn’t merit an entire review (he usually reserves reviews for bad comics) but what is interesting about the video is he talks about just why this series worked where the other ones failed so badly.

Unfortunately  Linkara has decided not to review any Silent Hill comics this Halloween and is instead focusing on The Thing.  However, he did check out Silent Hill: Past Life in a new series he’s been doing on his site, Long Box of the Damned.  You can watch that video here.

And that just about wraps up Silent Hill Day today on gamexcess.net!  Hope you’ve all enjoyed it, be it if you’re just a casual fan, a new fan, or a fan of the series since the beginning.  And even if you’re not a fan or someone you has never played or even heard of Silent Hill, I hope you’ve found something you’ve enjoyed!  Have a wonderful day!