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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9780061243547
ISBN number: 006124354X
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 112
Printing Date: July 01, 2007
Publishing house: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: July 03, 2007
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Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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Deep within the remote hills of the New Mexico desert, a group of townspeople thought wiped out by the United States government when it began above-ground atomic testing has returned to the now-irradiated land they still claim as their home. Within the eye of this nuclear storm good people will go bad, battle lines will be drawn, and a new family of mutated monstrosities must protect their own at all costs in a mind-boggling orgy of blood and vengeance.
The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning tells for the very first time the epic origin story behind Wes Craven's classic tale of mutant carnage, leading into and bridging the gap between the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes and its sequel, The Hills Have Eyes 2. Written by acclaimed storytellers Jimmy Palmiotti (Painkiller Jane) and Justin Gray (Countdown) with shocking art by John Higgins (Judge Dredd, War Stories), this is mutant mayhem as you've never seen it before.
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I'm not the biggest horror fans, at least I don't like the blood and guts just for the blood and guts aspect. But with a book like Hills, the story actually uses the violence and horror as a tool for the story to be told. Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, with pretty cool art of Higgins, tell a tale of how the Bean clan came to be and what their motivation was for all the violence. They don't try to sugar coat it or even justify it, just tell the story from a different perspective. That's what makes the story impressive.
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I was a fan of the remake of the very first movie and hated the sequel, so naturally I approached this comic with some trepidation. It doesn't help a bit that the "main character" of the novel is the main bad guy from the second movie, which I'm still pretending doesn't exist!
I've always thought the heart and soul of a comic was it's story, and the art is the bones that support it. I must say that as a discerning reader, I was not displeased with the art. It had it's flaws here and there, but it was way better than it might have been.
I find myself feeling a bit sorry for the story, however; it could be have better. The authors produce a premise that's almost believable, and at the beginning you are halfway promised characters whom are well-developed and interesting. Well, that doesn't really pan out, sadly. "Hades'" mother was a character with great potential, but she, I feel, came and went without enough story to support her. I feel a whole issue might have been devoted to her history alone, and I rather feel what they presented was more of the slapdash "highlights" of a story that might have been really intriguing. In fact, I was disappointed to find that pretty much every side-story the authors might have gone off on to add character development and interest was passed up in favor of carrying the story along at a rushed pace.
Despite all this though, it wasn't that bad. If you're a fan of either the very first or second movie, this comic is worth a look-see, but my advice is that if you can find it at your local library, just check it out. Don't pay for it, as I guarantee you it'll never warrant a repeat reading.
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Ah, the American Backwater! The Tiny Forgotten Town! The Boomtown gone Bust! The bustling once-and-future Main Street, now feral, sneaking, its once proud shopfronts bare and its glistening windows of yore flyspecked! Let us sing the Evil that men do in those senile doglegs of Civilization Lost.
H.P. Lovecraft once wrote that nothing gave him the horrified skin-curdles like the slumbering Evils of small Yankee towns, cloistered away in drowsing woodlands and thickets, shielded, and then culled and rendered imbecilic, by the ramparts of tree and stone and hillock and distance from their metropolitan brothers.
These are places so remote that violations that beggar description can be practiced under chaste Puritan gables and homely, bucolic eaves. There's something potent about the Devil's concoction of Isolation, & Yearning, & the Rustic, that summons up appetites best left shuttered in darkness.
So imagine how bad the Evils of rustication get when you add toss a few thousand millirems of radiation into the mix: what you get trotting up the garden path is probably something you don't want to bring home to meet your parents.
So you'd think the graphic novel "Hills have Eyes: the Beginning", meant as a tie-in for the recent horror flicks, would be jolly good, quease-inducing, sinister fun, right? A total bloodthirsty slam-dunk, right?
Wrong. Give this one a pass, unless you're up for a frankly garishly hideous, slipshod comic hastily thrown together by functional illiterates featuring nothing but ugly people doing ugly things to even uglier victims.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not deep-sixing "Hills" because it's violent. It is violent, but that's not the point. I love gore. I love wanton brutality and the kind of sinister nastiness that results from too much silence and vastness and scads of atomic juice. I love the mindless, brutal, radiation-driven madness and hunger and violence that comes boiling up from the haunted high ruddy hills of the Desolation Zones in the Great American Southwest, scarred, and marked and brutalized and raped murderously by our Latter Day Apostle of Apocalypse Robert Oppenheimer.
My point is that I love this neglected, wicked-dope little ghetto of the horror badlands and ugly blackened concrete highrise neighborhoods. I love the idea of cannibal mutant freaks roving the barren high desert and heading home with tureens of heaped-up limbs and severed hands and necklaces of noses to win a mutant maiden's heart. It's a genre that demands a little loving, the kind Aja gave it, the kind it should have gotten here.
It doesn't get that here. The story by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray (it took TWO of them??) is abortive, numbingly stupid, and utterly derivative. The art by John Higgins (who actually looks like a member of the Sawney Bean clan!) is garish and crude. Those lured in by the lush, gorgeous cover won't similar jewels in between the covers: that's like the false detour promised up at the filling station in Aja's remake---there's nothing but death and nastiness filling up all that dead space.
This is nothing more than a cheaply produced, impressively ugly marketing tie-in. It's the kind of mindless corporate reflex that underscores the contempt most studio execs have for the hardcore fans. It's a shocker these guys didn't put out a "Hills have Eyes" lunchbox or coloring book.
Frankly, a coloring book might have been just the ticket: do we use sepia or burnt sienna on Mutant Bob's scaly, bubbly exoskeleton? And which is it gonna be: mauve or turtle-green for the rectal tentacle? And with a mutant coloring book, you never need to worry about staying within the lines.
But not this time: "Hills have Eyes: the Beginning" is like Hobbes's Man in the state of Nature: nasty, brutish, and short. With "Hills: The Beginning", the Eyes definitely don't have it. Drive on.
JSG
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Wes Craven's original Hills Have Eyes was one of the best horror films of it's time, and the 2006 remake from Alexandre Aja ended up being surprisingly good as well. The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning is a prequel designed to give the cannibal, mutant family in the desert some depth and provide a bit of an origin story as well. Veteran inker Jimmy Palmiotti and his writing partner Justin Gray, both of whom collaborated on a great run with DC's relaunched Jonah Hex title while producing underwhelming takes on the Punisher and Heroes For Hire as well for Marvel, provide a half decent, standard horror story, while artist John Higgins provides some great and incredibly blood curdling artwork. There's nothing really bad about this prequel/movie tie-in, and it's definitely better than the recent Hills Have Eyes sequel, but there's nothing really outstanding about this comic either. All that aside, Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning is worth checking out for fans of the films or horror comics in general, but whether or not it's worth owning is entirely up to you.
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