'Silent Hill' comics?

[ExistentialityFit]

A while back I got addicted to the DDRish minigame on konami's site, so I visit there occasionally (my score still sucks)... Anyway, I ended up messing around there and found mention of a 'Silent Hill' game for PSP which mentioned 'interactive comic books' based on a series that was written for it...

I was just surprised to see that a comic book (it's actually mangaish style, though too americanized and bloody for me) would be made from a videogame instead of the other way around (which there are lots of examples for, like the batman games, x-men games, etc...)

Is this a common sort of thing? Or am I just out of the loop?

[Sagat]

I dunno how common it is..well Street Fighter has a more modern manga after it, think KoF does now too...

Bah, either way the SH manga was terrible.

[ExistentialityFit]

Bah, either way the SH manga was terrible.

Aye, I didn't exactly have high expectations for it (U.S. comics are generally not that great imo, though atm i'm having fun with one of the x-men series, so I suppose I shouldn't be the one to talk on that subject), it was just interesting that they'd try something like this. Ah well.

[ShadowtheWarWolf]

I don't know. It's probably pretty common though.

[Daenerys]

Yeah, it was god awful. It's just something they tried to do to make money, and comics on a scary videogame didn't cut it.

[psychooys]

Yeah, it was god awful. It's just something they tried to do to make money, and comics on a scary videogame didn't cut it.

I totally disagree, i think the Silent Hill comics are rather good in actuallity. It is really easy to diss something that you know nothing about... but i read a few of the comics and i gotta say i liked the artwork and they are pretty freaky. the silent hill experience looks pretty cool to me.

[fatella]

Actually, I bought the Silent Hill Experience because it has both of the comic book series ("The Hunger" and "Dying Inside") on it and it was cheaper to pay 19.99 for the PSP thingy than to order all of the comics. It's pretty good, if you're into Silent Hill, it's got lots of extras on it. Anyway, I think that it's a great mix, instead of carrying around books w/ me I can look at it all on my PSP, I hope they do stuff like this more often.