We have such sights to show you!

[Mr 9.8]

I figured I'd start this as a discussion of the often overlooked (maybe for good reason?) Epic Comic series ''Hellraiser'' based of course on the Clive Barker Film of the same name.

 

First a little ''mood'' music.

 

 

I was kinda surprised how many people had worked on this series,

Mike Zeck, Dwayne McDuffie, Sam Kieth, Miguel Ferrer, Bill Mumy, Bernie Wrightson, Kevin O'Neill, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman.

These being the most notable writers & Artists.

 

It is mainly an anthology of tales (Concepts by Barker, but not Written by him) & there are two continuous story arks one being the ''Devil's Brigade'' & ''The Harrowers''

 

The thing about the Anthology is that the stories are Hit & Miss (and sadly it's more miss then hit) It's like for every one good story there are 2 or 3 bad ones.

One of the said misses belong to Neil Gaiman!

 

I'll get more in depth on this as the thread moves along.

 

[seanfingh]

 

I feel almost exactly the same way about these books. I haven't read a ton of them, but I did get several big anthologies (Summer Special and Winter Special?) a couple of years ago. I thought most of the stories were well done.

 

What makes it better than some serial horror is the wide variety of stories possible - taking the puzzle boxes back into history, showing the back story of the Cenobites. It does get a little repetitious, because most of the stories are about folks who can't escape their destiny to wind up in hell.

[ashsaytr]

i'm gonna have to dig these out....there were quite a few i enjoyed... just can't remember which at the moment ~

[Mr 9.8]

In every issue there are ''art'' pieces between each story.

Here is one that really jumped out at me for some reason.

 

[Mr 9.8]

And of course the little box that starts it all.