At San Diego Comic Con, Tom Waltz of the recently announced Silent Hill 8 team let everyone know that a Silent Hill comic is heading our way! (Luckily the game name Silent Hill 8 is till a tentative title, yugh to out of sequence numerical titles.) It’s going to be a crossover with the upcoming game, but there’s something kind of strange going on here… See, the comic takes place in 1867, because they wanted to go for a more historical story-telling of the Silent Hill universe. Fine and dandy, but they’re planning a crossover character to be in the story where someone from Silent Hill 8 will also be in the comic, Silent Hill: Past Life — even though the game takes place in a modern setting. I love the craziness of the Silent Hill universe so I’m interested to see what kind of mind-destruction they have planned with this story. (more…)