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Title: Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best by Clive Barker, John Bolton, Larry Wachowski ISBN: 0-9710249-7-9 Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: I've seen the movies and read the comics
Comment: Clive Barker is one of the more amazing writers that have come out of the 20th century, and into the 21st century. His imagination is dark and fertile, something to be admired even if you dont personally read every one of his novels.
Hellraiser is an intriguing mythos, something darker in a more sexual sense than a mythos say by H. P. Lovecraft or Stephn King. The first movie was a new version of the old haunted house routine. The second one, however, was amazing, a new cosmos of hell. The movies after that were watchable, but I think they did not do justice by excluding the universe of hell itself instead of having Pinhead come around the corner every so often and tearing some poor fool apart.
The stories of the Hellraiser comics were fascinating at first, dont get me wrong. But, but the main problem is this. What was so at heart about the movies is the reaction of the humans to the inhuman, the heroes male and female toward the damnation around them. This was not so in the comic book series.
You see the Centobites are important to the hellraizer universe, but they are a part of the "sentence" not the "punch line" if you get my drift. Salvation for characters like Cirsty is what is important, at least for me, from the original two movies. The Centobites in these comics, though well drawn and having personalities which yes is a good point, they come in, say some "relavent" concept toward damnation, then kill the poor sods. Again. And Again. And Again.
It does grow tiresome. There is now in my eyes a throw toward the other side, you see hell so much it does not become shocking anymore. It doesn't have the punch as it did when you first saw Laviathin in Hellraiser 2.
I want to see the human heart succeeding or failing against the growing odds. Yes I dont think every story should have a happy ending, but if you read the same ending...after awhile...it just grows tiresome. So that is why I stopped reading the Hellraiser comics.
Now yes there are some very good short comic book stories in this collection, if you really enjoy the artwork which is VERY good, then yes by all means get the book. Just dont read it in one sitting or you will grow ... in my opinion ... bored.
Rating: 4
Summary: If you never read the hellraiser comics, read this.
Comment: I have collected about 15 Hellraiser comics over the years, but there were many stories here I had not read. Though not written by Barker, they are well researched and keep the myth alive. We would not have hellraiser 3,4 and 5 without the comics and whether thats good or bad they are still worth the indulgance (and Franchise). Alot of the artists used were fresh talent at the time, so there are some interesting spins on the traditional cenobites. Still v. bloody and sadistic. Created for all die hard fans.
Rating: 4
Summary: pretty good
Comment: It's actually pretty good (I had read another collection of Barker comics that wasn't so good, so I had my doubts). A couple of the stories seem to make little or no sense, but as a whole, they are well written stories. Most of the art is pretty good too. All in all, the collection is, well, pretty good-- and Gaiman is here too.
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Title: Clive Barker's Tapping the Vein by Clive Barker ISBN: 0971024936 Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker ISBN: 0061002828 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three by Clive Barker ISBN: 0425165582 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Primal from the Cradle to the Grave by Clive Barker, Erik Saltzgaber, John Van Fleet, D. G. Chichester ISBN: 1878574302 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title:Hellraiser: Chronicles ASIN: B00008BXJ3 Publisher: Silva America Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $36.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $36.98 |
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