by
Clive Barker (Author), Brandon
Seifert (Author), Tom Garcia
(Illustrator, Artist), Janusz Ordon (Artist)
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
(October 22, 2014)
Softcover, 142 pages
A horror series which goes hand in hand with the
films. It’s amazing how one short story “The Hell Bound Heart” made into a
film, turned into such an enduring horror franchise. This volume collects CLIVE
BARKER'S HELLRAISER: THE DARK WATCH #9-12, and CLIVE BARKER'S HELLRAISER ANNUAL
2013. I haven’t read the previous two volumes, but I could follow the action
reasonably well. I’m not sure if that’s to the story’s benefit or detriment.
You decide.
For those who don’t know, the
series’ storyline focuses on a puzzle box that opens a gateway to the Hell-like
realm of the Cenobites, an order of formerly human monsters who harvest human
souls to torture in sadistic experiments. It is not a pleasant comic, nor one
that fills a person with hope.
It is essentially a story of
the body horror genre, and as much as I doubted they could, the comic created
just as much nausea and disgust as the films. The art, while not the most
detailed, is still a grotesque ride. I think it’s the constant use to human
heads on monster bodies that really puts it over the edge.
In this story, classic
Pinhead, Elliot Spencer, and the new female Pinhead, Kirsty Cotton, finally get
to see which is supreme when the pair must battle and team up in Hell. WHAT
IT'S ABOUT: One must volunteer, or Hell will choose for itself. The two most
recent Hell Priests are missing Kirsty Cotton and Elliott Spencer have
abdicated their thrones, and there is someone new in their place: Harry
D'Amour.
As the former detective tries
to adjust to his new life, he is besieged by constant assassination attempts by
other Cenobites while his former human allies fight amongst themselves.
Meanwhile, as soldiers from other dimensions encroach upon the Labyrinth,
D'Amour is going to have to raise an army, whether he likes it or not, as the
Lords of the other pits strike to invade the Labyrinth.
For more readings, try books by Rex Hurst.
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