Silent Hill: Among the Damned
By Scott Ciencin, Shaun Thomas
In a gripping tale of bone-chilling horror, writer Scott Ciencin (
A convoluted mess Silent Hill is supposed to be a mystery. There are some questions that cannot be answered... yet at the same time none of the games have featured stories that were next to impossible for me to follow. This comic was guilty of that crime, as it bounces around way too much, and the artwork is perhaps too sloppy and muddy to make it clear what is going on. By the time I finished reading this comic I had a whopper of a headache trying to follow this story. I hope the other Silent Hill comics fared better. I'm more tempted to blame the art work than the writing on this one because if the art work had been clear enough to convey the story I might have been able to follow it better. I was disappointed when I learned that the Metal Gear Solid features similar art in their comics, and simply I plan to avoid it too, I simply cannot interpret the story from this slop. A sad case of muddy artwork and sorry storytelling Among the Damned is the first sequel jump into the Silent Hill comic book universe. For the hardcore SH fan, it might spark an idea or two, and the creature design is somewhat detailed, but the storytelling aspect of the artwork falls apart. I believe that Shaun Thomas might be a fantastic artist when it comes to one piece at a time (with a very heavy influence from the work of HR Giger), but he doesn't have the chops to tell a story. Each panel feels like the character is simply posed, waiting for someone to take their photo. In a slower book, this might have been okay, but Scott Ciencin is trying to cram a Stephen King novel into the space of two comic books and it just doesn't work.
