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Get These Amazing ‘Silent Hill’ Figures For That Special Horror Geek In Your Life
Toymunkey Studios was at Comic-Con last week to debut their new line of Silent Hill PVC statues that will release this December (read: Christmas gift) and as their $150 price tag would suggest, they each look pretty fantastic. The figures include a trio of nurses as well as the iconic Pyramid Head–in related news, I once had a dream where Pyramid Head replaced Bruce Campbell in one of those Old Spice commercials and he was just sitting on a recliner wearing a suede robe smoking a pipe, not giving a shit. Also, that’s totally untrue. I wish my dreams were that great, but for me they rarely stray from a naked me being chased through a purple forest by a horde of neon garden gnomes with Obama faces. You know, the usual. Oh yeah, Silent Hill statues. They’ll be 12″ tall, making them the perfect replacement for those hideous garden gnomes I see littered about people’s yards. Seriously, let’s get rid of those. Their stupid grins and wee beady eyes never fail to send shivers down my spine.
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In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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