The Silver Coin is a horror anthology series all about a cursed coin and the bad things what happen to people who come across it. A guitarist, a teen camper, a burglar, some futuristic person, and belt buckle-hat people. It’s also completely pants!
Michael Walsh draws the entire comic, as well as writes the terrible final part, and is joined by Chip Zdarsky, Kelly Thompson, Ed Brisson, and Jeff Lemire - a who’s who of the worst writers currently in mainstream comics. None of the parts were any good - they were all utterly rubbish.
How does a rock guitarist suddenly make it in a disco band? It doesn’t make sense. Also, music in comics never comes across, so Zdarsky’s story completely failed to convince. And the ending was just arbitrary nonsense. Which also applies to Ed Brisson’s story where a burglar just happens to have the coin and is able to get the drop on coppers for no reason.
Kelly Thompson’s story of a bullied teen camper getting her revenge on her tormentors was so one-dimensional and unimaginative, which is also the case with Walsh’s story - essentially a weak derivation of Robert Eggers’ 2017 movie, The Witch. Ooo, you mean the cursed coin was cursed by a witch - a witch’s curse? Who could possibly have thought that up?!
Jeff Lemire’s story was probably the worst, which is saying something considering the low quality throughout. He can’t write good sci-fi but he keeps plugging away at the medium anyway. His story was total gibberish - something about someone running from someone else and a virus. Ugh. Whatever.
Apparently enough people bought this crap so there’s gonna be a second volume but I’m drawing the line after this garbage first book. The Silver Coin, Volume 1 is one helluva crummy horror anthology.
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