wow i still cant believe it's even worst than the last year and more suckage

o_O Linkara.... please tell me you did not find that bear in a ominous abandoned factory outside of Breslau, Germany....This could be even worse then what is happening to you now :scared:

This is going to be the best October ever! I've been looking forward to these Silent Hill reviews since they were announced. The only thing is I don't know if I can handle three weeks of crappy Silent Hill comics!

I just wish this wasn't a three part series...because now we won't have a "Last Time Gag". I believe he only does that for two part reviews. Shame really, those tend to be really funny and make me laugh every time.

Linkara...THANK YOU! Thank you very much for referencing "All Good Things..."! I watched that episode of TNG just last night, to tell you the truth. I'm just glad you found a way to throw in into a Silent Hill review! You rock at life!

As for Schrodinger's Cat...I agree. I don't understand how the cat would be dead AND alive. Maybe I just don't understand Schrodinger's theory on it, but from what I know of the Schrodinger's Cat experiment, the radiation and the poison would both kill the cat. So it wouldn't be half alive and half dead, nor would it split off into two separate realities, like with quantum mechanics, it would simply be dead from a mixture of radiation poisoning as well as poison. But like I said, maybe I'm not seeing it correctly. But My thoughts still stand. Kill a cat, you have a dead cat.

It's a thought experiment. See my post below.

Think of it this way, if you never (not ever) checked or heard or had any sort of interaction at all with that box, there is no sure-fire way to know that the cat is dead, to check would be to observe, ant that would change the outcome to a dead cat.
I also agree with Lepton, a cat isn't really the best way to think about it.

I always suspected that Linkara would descend into a personal hell where his only companions are aspects of how he perceives himself through the mediums of entertainment he has on hand. I can only imagine the depths of insanity we will all experience as you climb out from your self imposed exile from sanity.

This is gonna be good.

Also, another hell will come from the loads of comments that will be put down explaining the Schrodinger's Cat Paradox.

"Also, another hell will come from the loads of comments that will be put down explaining the Schrodinger's Cat Paradox."

LOL, sooo true... it seems like the internet has just become a place for people to dump any information they have about ANYTHING into the void. :sick:

My God.........Silent Hill's beginning to affect him even more! His exposure to the other comics was already too much! Someone should have warned him!

As usual, YOU ROCK!!!

This is phat. That's all I can say... PHAT.

Poor literacy is kewl XB

YES! Linkara, I am so proud of you! you refused to make a twilight joke, that's a very, VERY good thing! yes, your right, twilight jokes are old and stale now, and they just fuel the popularity of it. it's negative popularity, but still popularity all the same! we must refuse to even make jokes about it, refuse to acknowledge it's existence! because that's how much Twilight sucks! it sucks so much, that even jokes making fun of it just make you feel angry! and you did it! you refused to give in to the bandwagon and didn't make a stupid, predictable twilight joke, oh, I am SO proud of you! seriously, I hate it so much that I don't even like jokes about. I really wish people would just not pay any attention to it. twilight jokes are just predictable and annoying, just as much as the series itself


and what's with that opening? what does it have to do with the review?

That's a good question. My guess is, it has to do with the narrative that's going to span these reviews.

What can I say except...GROOVY! :cool:

The review that is, not the comic...

"Where did they go? Did they disappear? Or were they never there to begin with?" :psychotic:

Great review! I love how much Christa Bella really tees you off, understandably so.

However, if you needed any more proof that the guy who wrote this had no idea about Silent Hill, I have absolutely 0 knowledge of Silent Hill, and I think I'm actually following along. X_X

I think "what"-ly sounds better as a name, mostly because you were already saying "What" a lot during last year's silent hill comic reviews, mostly because of the almost blacked-out art. =)

Wow...that was bad, really bad. I think this might beat Countdown in pure suck. Just from the review, I lost track of just what the hell was going on and who was who.

Have to admit, that was a creepy, CREEPY, introduction.

It was cool, but creepy.

That whole thing was really hard to follow. And I don't think it was you, because I can pretty much always follow stories you talk about. I remember having this problem with the last set from this series too. I guess it's just bad writing!

By the way... Schroedinger's cat is just an analogy. It doesn't work with a cat. Just with subatomic particles. The point is that when dealing with quantum physics, particles exist in a probabalistic state, which is to say that you can't predict where they are/where they're going/what their energy is until you actually measure them, so if the box is closed (in other words, you're not measuring anything), the cat is technically both alive and dead (in other words, its location/momentum/other properties are unknown). And in quantum mechanics, that actually doesn't mean that it's just one or the other, and you just don't know because you're not looking at it, because if you measure it one way you'll get one result, but if you measure it a different way you get a different result. So that can only mean that it must exist in different states (alive and dead) at the same time, because if it was just one way or the other than all measurements would put it in one state. But you get different states depending on how you measure it.
Get it?

What no one seems to remember is that Schrödinger himself was being ironic.

The whole point of the thought experiment was to point out the logical inconsistencies of quantum mechanics. It's kinda sad the that everyone takes it so seriously today - the whole thing is [i]supposed[/i] to be ridiculous.

Incidentally, that kind of argument is known as [i]reductio ad absurdum[/i] - reducing an opposing theory down to the point where it is clearly absurd. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!

Thank you! I'm glad someone remembers that.

Reminds me of a "riddle" I heard once: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Anyway, thanks for that (and to BrainedbySaucepans). Now it makes quite a bit more sense than what someone else just told me lol.

0:39- Sounds like the childhood of Macaulay Culkin to me.

1:43- I still love that line, Lewis. :cool:

Has anyone on TGWTG.com done a review on the Silent Hill movie? If so, I'd like to know.

I kinda like Christabella's look in this comic. It's far more better than "Dying Inside," but that's not saying much, of course.

7:03- Why do I have the feeling that Silent Hill is Bedford Falls in another alternate timeline other than the one where George Baily doesn't exist?

11:17- In speaking of something with the title "The Room," YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, COMIC!!!

14:36- We all hate this comic, buddy. =)

18:33- With the way the caption boxes are at this point in the comic, I swore that the dog was talking to the reader.

23:10- This isn't the future. Where are the flying cars, the hover boards, the self-lasing shoes?

28:02- It's also weird that you used "Groovy" at the end of last year's special.

Can't wait for the next two episodes.

Phelous did a video about the movie.

[color=navy]What the flying nun were they thinking in ripping off The Evil Dead?

And yeah, you are right, the Dog is the real protagonist.[/color]

My theory is that this comic is a parlor game: one guy draws a random comic full of empty speech bubbles, another guy has to fill all the speech bubbles in, and both of them are laughing their asses off.

Cut cat in half, one half is dead, the other still alive for a minute or two. Animal cruelty is never funny.

The more you know

Animal cruelty is never funny. Which is why I didn't need that image this morning, dude.

Goooood.........Feel the hate flowing threw you! Sorry couldn't resist =D ANYWHO............I actually think I know where this comics plot came form! It's form an Alternate reality where Silent Hill Sucked! Thats GOT to be it, its bleeding in form another reality and all we need to do is get the Doctor to do the voodoo he do best and SEND THIS PIECE OF WORTHLESS TREE SHAVINGS INTO THE MOTHER F*(king VOID!

When I saw the twin victims I literally throw my hands in the air and said: Welhp, that proves it, Scott Ciencin has never played the games. He knows nothing about the series mythology and never has studied it. He just went to Google image search and googled "Silent Hill monsters".

I know that's clear when you read the first two pages but to me, that was last nail on the coffin.

My cousin used to have a dog called Bear, and still has another called Teddy.

Also, to most people in the game world, Silent Hill isn't a "rathole". People without major personal issues or Order connections who live or travel there see it as a relatively normal place with less severe fog. For example, Henry Townshend from SH4 and young Laura from SH2 both like the town's scenery because the town itself has nothing to torment them with. Keep in mind that Henry was under threat from the curse on his apartment, not the actual town.

So going by the ending, Linkara's finally gone insane. It was only a matter of time.

Your twist ending at the end of the episode was more amusing than any other part of that comic. Haha.

Dude, you really sold that intro. For a second there, you really made this comic sound better than it is.

That would assume the comic is what the intro is referring to. ^_~

it sounded like the plot of Silent Hill one. Then again, I only played one so I don't know for sure. either way better than this comic.

I named my dog bear...

He had the biggest paws we had ever seen on a German Shepard and one of comment later he was named bear.

Looking back on it its a stupid name but it fit at the time.

Anyway great review like always.

Wait a sec: Silent Hill's "monsters" are supposed to be based on the perceiver's own neurosis and history. Thus most monsters will be apparitions unique to that person.

Why then, does this guy see Pyramid Head (a representation of James' own Sexual Frustration and Rage) let alone an entire squad of them?

Good Lord....the SH arcade game was closer to the original theme than this!

I admit not knowing much about Silent Hill in general (Like Linkara I never played the games ) but what I know so far is, that the town/the curse or whatever it is that has taken a hold in this city doesn`t work like portrayed in the comics you mocked so far. (Exception: The good one about the mafia henchman)

Silent Hill as far as I get it is a horror world, another plane of reality people brought upon themselves by founding a cult that tried to gain demonic powers. Powers that are biting them in the ass. That and the "town" uses the feelings of guilt or other peoples fears in order to let them go through a personal, on dark secrets build up hell they either learn to face/accept/fight off or to die.

The comics... "Dying inside" was already garbage. And I don`t only mean Christabelle, a girl that swears like a sailor, but also her older sister. The bitch that sacrificed her own friends and therefore should be the one tortured even more than Christabella.

And now we got this weird mess that makes no sense in it`s own way. An actor who is send to Silent Hill -a town I still don`t understand he already knew or not- because the forces of evil kidnapped his girlfriend and Christabella, who is in an alliance with some demonic force wants to use him in order to defeat her sister and take over the city again?

That`s not Silent Hill. As Linkara said, compared to that the programmers of Homecoming did at least know a bit of the things they did. This... it could work as a Lovecraftian like story (The idea of the artist and his pictures doesn`t sound that bad and I think it would be a good story with the subject of how much our imagination can make "art" real and how higher forces could use it) but also only if the story of "DeadAlive" does improvise very much.
The artwork... I know why it gets flagged but honestly, I consider it this time even a bit better than in Dying inside. It is still crap -and seriously I don`t get what people think this kind of work is supposed to do. Look at the Dante`s Inferno comic, the same shitty style- but at least I can see a bit more of the stuff that is going on. Unfortunately that means I get even more of the shit going on.

And the groovy ballon... you know Linkara, every time I think you can`t top of a previous git of rage (like the one regarding "One more day" or "Act of God") you show us something like that. Now I get it was over the top for this review but I can understand your reaction in general. This simple word from Evil Dead doesn`t fit in the cosmology/general style of Silent Hill at all and as you said, it is the ultimate proof that the writer doesn`t care aout the game. He just wants to come up with a horror story and throws in stuff he can think of, adding here and there the word Silent Hill to it. Fine, if he wants to write horror, why not? But first he should learn to write a ...

Another one? Oh dear, Give 'em hell, Linkara!!

A little while ago I baught "Arkham Asylum: a seriou house on serious Earth"

I thought it'd be awesome because it's the very graphic novel that the videogame "Batman: Arkham Assylum" is based on.

But, personally, I found that the art made the comic unreadable. Every single page looked like one of those wierd semi-abstract paintings you find the killer has painted in a horror movie because he's insane. The joker looked... I don't know, "wierd" doesn't cover it.He looks like something someone as insane as the Joker might see if he was having nightmares about himself.

I WOULD request a review of it, but you know what? I'm not gonna do that. I'm not that cruel. If you review Arkham Asylum, it's not my fault.

Now to say the game is based on the comic is a big stretch. Arkham Asylum was a graphic novel written by Grant Morrison. As far as I know it was his first step in the DC universe around the early 90s. I am not defending the comic -I amdit, the artwork is crap- I just wanted to inform you that it not necessarily has something to do with the game. The game is about Joker turning Arkham into an even bigger hell hole by turning its prisoners into monsters thanks to a specific venom. The graphic novel... to be honest I do`t get it. As far as I see it it`s supposed to be a thriller with a few supernatural elements like the history of the institution and so on and that Joker and co are therefore now even nuttier because the "forces" are commanding them.
It`s really not good. The only good thing that comes to my mind about this comic, is that Arkham itself became more of a plotelement in later comic stories after gaining a bit of popularity after that one.

Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth is rife with symbolism, from the writing to the artwork. It was done strictly for the art, and for further characterization of Batman and his rogues gallery. The artwork is unique and unsettling, painted from a madman's perspective since, well, it takes place in a madhouse. The storyline explains exactly what kind of hell the asylum itself is, and is superbly written and frightening.
I honestly think you guys simply don't consider comic books a high form of art, and if so, that's fine. True masterpieces are rarely if ever understood. I mean, just look at some videogames that don't sell well. So my point is, the comic is great, but I'm not mad that you aren't art snobs like me.

.....you don't get.... Grant.... BAD ARTWORK?

Excuse me, I have to be committed to the Asylum myself. BAD ARTWORK? No, Serious House On Serious Earth is the kind of art this drivel is TRYING to be, and failing. It's... I can't deal with this. Let the other commenter's words make more sense.

[color=green]Best ending ever...EVER!![/color]

It's sad when Linkara can better represent Silent Hill than the comic that was [i]supposed[/i] to do that. XD