Book Cover for: Clive Barkers Hellraiser: The Road Below, Brandon Seifert. Still, that’s just my feeling towards it. Rising star writer Brandon Seifert (WITCH DOCTOR, HELLRAISER ANNUAL) and. Shortly after becoming Hell's Priestess, she was called to New Orleans by a holder of the LeMarchand Device a woman looking to end a decades-long family feud by any means necessary. Pinhead Kirsty on the other hand just seems too normal and not demonic at all, which I guess is the point they’re trying to make but it just seems to have softened up the cenobites too much for my liking. Kirsty Cotton has gone from a human resisting the forces of Hell, to the ruler of light in the darkest of places. Written by Brandon Seifert (Clive Barkers Hellraiser Annual). Pinhead has always had some really deep lines of speech which really made the character feel eerie. A 4-issue mini series that chronicles Kirsty Cottons first days in Hell as the new Pinhead. I wasn’t mad keen on the artwork, but the cover artwork was great! I really don’t care for Kirsty as an almost too angelic cenobite. It all seemed a bit odd, but it was interesting. We determined that these pictures can also depict a Hellraiser, Pinhead. The daughter decides to become a cenobite in order to kill the creatures and send her Mum back from hell. In compilation for wallpaper for Hellraiser: The Road Below, we have 27 images. This womans family have a blood feud going on with some other strange race of creatures and these creatures are after her daughter. This collection carries on the previous path from the Clive Barker’s Hellraiser series, and we see Pinhead Kirsty get called to Earth (apparently for the first time) and she uses her fluffy ribbons to drag a woman back to hell.
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