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30 Days of Night #2
30 Days of Night, Vol. 2: Dark Days
This story follows Stella Olemaun's efforts to warn the world about the threat the vampires pose - the vampires who overran Barrow, Alaska, killing her husband and most of the town. With an exclusive introduction by screenwriter Eric Red (The Hitcher, Near Dark), the flat-out terror of Dark Days will reaffirm the dominance of Niles and Templesmith over the realm of illustrated horror fiction.
144 pages, Paperback
First published April 7, 2004
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About the author
Steve Niles
836 books457 followersSTEVE NILES is one of the writers responsible for bringing horror comics back to prominence, and was recently named by Fangoria magazine as one of it's "13 rising talents who promise to keep us terrified for the next 25 years."
Niles is currently working for the four top American comic publishers - Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse. He got his start in the industry when he formed his own publishing company called Arcane Comix, where he published, edited and adapted several comics and anthologies for Eclipse Comics. His adaptations include works by Clive Barker, Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison.
Steve resides in Los Angeles in his bachelor pad with one cat. While there's no crawlspace, there is a questionable closet in one corner and no one is quite sure what is hidden in there...but we have an idea.
--from the author's website
Niles is currently working for the four top American comic publishers - Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse. He got his start in the industry when he formed his own publishing company called Arcane Comix, where he published, edited and adapted several comics and anthologies for Eclipse Comics. His adaptations include works by Clive Barker, Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison.
Steve resides in Los Angeles in his bachelor pad with one cat. While there's no crawlspace, there is a questionable closet in one corner and no one is quite sure what is hidden in there...but we have an idea.
--from the author's website
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July 26, 2017
The 30 Days of Night saga continues!
This is the second TPB in the series.
Creative Team:
Writer & Co-creator: Steve Niles
Illustrator & Co-creator: Ben Templesmith
Letterer: Robbie Robbins
DARK DAYS
A year before, Barrow, Alaska, was a massacre.
Hundreds of men, women and children died.
But the word of what happened there got out…
…however people don’t believe it.
Vampires? Pfft! Come on! Those kind of beings don’t exist, right?
Wrong, very wrong.
And while Barrow was a disaster for the living ones, the Vampire community isn’t happy about how it ended and that a book telling the events, there is now on sale, and while readers think that it’s a fiction novel, still the Vampires aren’t happy.
And when Vampires aren’t happy, humans tend to die.
A new daring rival against the Vampires has risen, but still human, so how much real damage can be done?
The exciting sequel to 30 Days of Night is here!
If you already read this TPB along with the first one, I strongly recommend to read the third one: Return to Barrow, to get a better overall appreciation about the general story.
This is the second TPB in the series.
Creative Team:
Writer & Co-creator: Steve Niles
Illustrator & Co-creator: Ben Templesmith
Letterer: Robbie Robbins
DARK DAYS
A year before, Barrow, Alaska, was a massacre.
Hundreds of men, women and children died.
But the word of what happened there got out…
…however people don’t believe it.
Vampires? Pfft! Come on! Those kind of beings don’t exist, right?
Wrong, very wrong.
And while Barrow was a disaster for the living ones, the Vampire community isn’t happy about how it ended and that a book telling the events, there is now on sale, and while readers think that it’s a fiction novel, still the Vampires aren’t happy.
And when Vampires aren’t happy, humans tend to die.
A new daring rival against the Vampires has risen, but still human, so how much real damage can be done?
The exciting sequel to 30 Days of Night is here!
If you already read this TPB along with the first one, I strongly recommend to read the third one: Return to Barrow, to get a better overall appreciation about the general story.
April 2, 2022
She fucks a vampire, and I'M OUT.
Foisted this dumb book on my reading buddette, KaDIE!DIE!DIE! P..
Foisted this dumb book on my reading buddette, KaDIE!DIE!DIE! P..
June 13, 2015
1. zvezdica za artwork - čini mi se da je Templesmith ovde još bolji nego u prvom delu. I dalje deluje minimalistički, ali se na određenim crtežima kriju neki sitni detalji.
2. zvezdica za "intertekstualnost" sa prvim delom - prvi deo postaje knjiga koju je napisala Stella
3. zvezdica za Stellu - ona konačno može da se razmaše na ovih 70tak stranica više u odnosu na prvi deo i postaje realnija, životnija, surovija, okrutnija ali isto tako ranjiva.
4. zvezdica za vampirskog izdajnika - totalno cool lik
5. zvezdica za tempo novele - jednostavno ne možete da je ispustite iz ruku posebno uz odličan ali predvidiv cliffhanger :D
Nedostaci (koji ponovo nisu uspeli da mi pokvare utisak)
1. postupci nekih likova se lako mogu predvideti
2. cliffhanger je očekivan
2. zvezdica za "intertekstualnost" sa prvim delom - prvi deo postaje knjiga koju je napisala Stella
3. zvezdica za Stellu - ona konačno može da se razmaše na ovih 70tak stranica više u odnosu na prvi deo i postaje realnija, životnija, surovija, okrutnija ali isto tako ranjiva.
4. zvezdica za vampirskog izdajnika - totalno cool lik
5. zvezdica za tempo novele - jednostavno ne možete da je ispustite iz ruku posebno uz odličan ali predvidiv cliffhanger :D
Nedostaci (koji ponovo nisu uspeli da mi pokvare utisak)
1. postupci nekih likova se lako mogu predvideti
2. cliffhanger je očekivan
April 21, 2022
(Buddy read with Mr Cliff Jumper)
With marginally better art than 30 Days of Night, Vol. 1 and some small semblance of a storyline, this shot up from utterly abominable to underwhelmingly mediocre.
The plot was relatively steady and grounded for the most part but veered so far off the garden path towards the end that it practically lit itself on fire as it entirely undid everything. The protagonist’s actions were in direct violation of her strident beliefs and that complete lack of character integrity actually happened to be the only interesting thing that happened in almost 150 pages of nonsense. So it’s almost rather sad that that romance aspect that crept into the plot should’ve been stricken down because of its illogicality.
In this vol I saw this comic’s potential, albeit only a sliver and only at the end. But it certainly should be noted that my definition of potential here is derived from an extremely, extremely low bar set by the terrible 30 Days of Night, Vol. 1 so perhaps saying it has a minute bit of potential doesn’t actually mean anything at all.
With marginally better art than 30 Days of Night, Vol. 1 and some small semblance of a storyline, this shot up from utterly abominable to underwhelmingly mediocre.
The plot was relatively steady and grounded for the most part but veered so far off the garden path towards the end that it practically lit itself on fire as it entirely undid everything. The protagonist’s actions were in direct violation of her strident beliefs and that complete lack of character integrity actually happened to be the only interesting thing that happened in almost 150 pages of nonsense. So it’s almost rather sad that that romance aspect that crept into the plot should’ve been stricken down because of its illogicality.
In this vol I saw this comic’s potential, albeit only a sliver and only at the end. But it certainly should be noted that my definition of potential here is derived from an extremely, extremely low bar set by the terrible 30 Days of Night, Vol. 1 so perhaps saying it has a minute bit of potential doesn’t actually mean anything at all.
October 1, 2023
Excellent sequel!
The story was awesome! The artwork is definitely different. I liked this well enough to keep going with the series. Very interested to find out what happens next! 4 stars!
The story was awesome! The artwork is definitely different. I liked this well enough to keep going with the series. Very interested to find out what happens next! 4 stars!
January 8, 2021
I have to agree with fellow reviewers, book one is worth the read but this is degrading to a second class horror story. I still liked the art style but it's not enough to make me go read another book in this series.
My brain kind of melted. 2.5 out of 5.0 stars
My brain kind of melted. 2.5 out of 5.0 stars
November 27, 2017
Bordering on awful, this sequel makes the uninspired decisions of leaving Alaska for L.A. and shifting the focus from survival to under-cooked global conspiracies. The writing is embarrassingly bad with plotting that can only be described as lame-brained. Case in point: A book signing devolves into carnage and gunplay, only to be dismissed pages later by the police because vampires aren't real and no one was hurt even though explosives were detonated, handguns were dual-wielded and emptied, and it sure looked like Templesmith's artwork was trying to express vampires slicing crimson-soaked swathes through helpless book-signing attendees. But who can tell with Templesmith's art style? which is more often tedious and obfuscating than evocative and beguiling. Every character is unconvincing in their roles, except for the obligatory villainess of this arc, but even she has little to do in this soup of genre cliches. Sometimes Templesmith does titillate with sections of sepia-tinged gore, but even his scattershot skills cannot save this from being the embarrassing mess left for the reader to cringe through. And combing for dandruff is more satisfying than that climax. Now I'm blowing a raspberry.
March 2, 2021
I don't know why I keep reading the volumes, besides the fact that I bought them years ago and never read after the 1st one (which I liked on my first time around) but I can't seem to like this one either.
My main problem I guess is that it brings pretty much nothing to the table, except a bunch of cliches and no new ideas, forcing us to eat shit like oh hey, let's make Eben alive again, not that the story of the first one was an exceptional piece of work or something, but it was what it was, the idea was great and interesting, the plot was ok, the dialogue was ok, the execution was whatever and the artwork was mostly a personal opinion for what it is, I sometimes like it, I sometimes hate it, and Templesmith is on this one too, and I hated it most of the time, mainly because of the fucking stick figures and when it comes to vamp-chars, I don't know who the fuck is who half the time.
If I have to squint and pretty much make myself blind to understand who the character is because of scribbles and shit, then that shit is not for me.
Anyway, other than all that, from the first volume, here we get Stella, Eben's wife from the first one, wanna get revenge on the vamps for her husband, after writing a book about what happened in the first one, and going public with the whole vampires exist, (of course people think she's crazy and that her story is fictional) and that's pretty much it. There's some killing and the revenge and of course the "we need to get the character we killed in the finale of the first one back" thing, which sucked.
There's a moment here where they use guns, firearms and GRENADES to throw at them vampires, and sure yeah, go for it, but then, all them vamps disappear and the cops come in and they ARREST the people who shoot guns and throw grenades on people inside a hall or whatever on an event, and so, the protagonist here is like "I did that because there were vampires" and the cops are LITERALLY like "Let's just let them people go to their business", "ah, another crazy person who makes no sense, let's just let them go, the people who shot guns and threw grenades".. so, I don't know if that in USA makes sense but it doesn't really make sense in the rest of the world. If you're trying to have realistic rules for a world that's real and based on the real world but with vampires, then police letting people who shot guns and threw a bunch of grenades in the middle of the city, after what? a few minutes of talking and interrogating, then I don't know, but your story kinda sucks and lacks realism, especially when you're trying to sell me that vampires exist and they've been hiding all these years.
Anyway, I'm going to continue reading of course, throughout the whole series of comic and books, but I wouldn't recommend this. It screams "1st one sold out so we had to make another one".
My main problem I guess is that it brings pretty much nothing to the table, except a bunch of cliches and no new ideas, forcing us to eat shit like oh hey, let's make Eben alive again, not that the story of the first one was an exceptional piece of work or something, but it was what it was, the idea was great and interesting, the plot was ok, the dialogue was ok, the execution was whatever and the artwork was mostly a personal opinion for what it is, I sometimes like it, I sometimes hate it, and Templesmith is on this one too, and I hated it most of the time, mainly because of the fucking stick figures and when it comes to vamp-chars, I don't know who the fuck is who half the time.
If I have to squint and pretty much make myself blind to understand who the character is because of scribbles and shit, then that shit is not for me.
Anyway, other than all that, from the first volume, here we get Stella, Eben's wife from the first one, wanna get revenge on the vamps for her husband, after writing a book about what happened in the first one, and going public with the whole vampires exist, (of course people think she's crazy and that her story is fictional) and that's pretty much it. There's some killing and the revenge and of course the "we need to get the character we killed in the finale of the first one back" thing, which sucked.
There's a moment here where they use guns, firearms and GRENADES to throw at them vampires, and sure yeah, go for it, but then, all them vamps disappear and the cops come in and they ARREST the people who shoot guns and throw grenades on people inside a hall or whatever on an event, and so, the protagonist here is like "I did that because there were vampires" and the cops are LITERALLY like "Let's just let them people go to their business", "ah, another crazy person who makes no sense, let's just let them go, the people who shot guns and threw grenades".. so, I don't know if that in USA makes sense but it doesn't really make sense in the rest of the world. If you're trying to have realistic rules for a world that's real and based on the real world but with vampires, then police letting people who shot guns and threw a bunch of grenades in the middle of the city, after what? a few minutes of talking and interrogating, then I don't know, but your story kinda sucks and lacks realism, especially when you're trying to sell me that vampires exist and they've been hiding all these years.
Anyway, I'm going to continue reading of course, throughout the whole series of comic and books, but I wouldn't recommend this. It screams "1st one sold out so we had to make another one".
July 11, 2015
Stella has been mourning Eben for over a year now and decides that she must get out of Barrow and try to warn people about the vampires. She has written a book about her experiences and is promoting it in L.A. Her presence triggers several different groups to take an interest in her, some allies and some enemies.
I enjoyed the first graphic novel in the series although there were some aspects that didn't make sense. In the second book, we learn a little more about Miss Judith, who lost her son in Barrow, but again the reason of why she wants to expose the vamps is never explained. Her only contribution to the storyline was that her son obtained photographic evidence that vamps exist, other than that she didn't really have much impact on what was going on.
The artwork was amazing, the tone is dark, foreboding and perfectly suited to the storyline. I really love Ben Templesmith's illustration; the spidery, disturbing quality to his drawings only intensifies the horrific subject matter.
A gory and fast read and in a lot of ways a step up from the first volume.
I enjoyed the first graphic novel in the series although there were some aspects that didn't make sense. In the second book, we learn a little more about Miss Judith, who lost her son in Barrow, but again the reason of why she wants to expose the vamps is never explained. Her only contribution to the storyline was that her son obtained photographic evidence that vamps exist, other than that she didn't really have much impact on what was going on.
The artwork was amazing, the tone is dark, foreboding and perfectly suited to the storyline. I really love Ben Templesmith's illustration; the spidery, disturbing quality to his drawings only intensifies the horrific subject matter.
A gory and fast read and in a lot of ways a step up from the first volume.
May 29, 2018
Re-read for about fourth time. I love this everytime I read it more and more.
June 17, 2009
I could look at these drawings all day. I can't wait to find the rest.
February 20, 2019
The story continues about a year after the events in Barrow, Alaska. It's a different playing field now when a group of humans led by Stella Olemaun decide to fight back the undead. The war between them isn't fought out in the open by the tactical vampires. The ending is more focused on brute force and is a bit rushed, but it's still pretty good. There is plenty of room left to explore this universe.
After losing her husband in Barrow, Alaska, Stella Olemaun has decided to start a war on the undead. She builds a team to back her up and arms it to the teeth. Judith Ali, the woman who sent her son to photograph the undead in Barrow and lost him there, wants to help Stella. They will have to face Vicente's wife Lilith who is also out for revenge against her husband's killers.
After losing her husband in Barrow, Alaska, Stella Olemaun has decided to start a war on the undead. She builds a team to back her up and arms it to the teeth. Judith Ali, the woman who sent her son to photograph the undead in Barrow and lost him there, wants to help Stella. They will have to face Vicente's wife Lilith who is also out for revenge against her husband's killers.
November 6, 2017
This story mainly revolves around Stella trying to expose vampires and bring back her dead husband Eben.. Not bad, not bad at all ;)
Still, the artwork you need to get used to.. Dark and gritty.. just the way I like it though!
Still, the artwork you need to get used to.. Dark and gritty.. just the way I like it though!
February 1, 2016
Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith return to there vampire comic, moving action primarily to LA. Templesmith's art is clearer here and his expressionistic art remains, but the character designs are more consistent and clearer. The backgrounds are often over textured, but it does add to the feel of the comic. Niles' writing here is very mixed: one hand the characters and motivations come out much clearer than in the original story and the stories twists don't seem as rushed, but on the other, this is nowhere near as "innovative" in the vampire genre as people thing. In fact, elements of it can remind one of certain 90s gothic roleplaying games and parts of Anne Rice novels, but with less sexy and more animalistic rage. Stella Olemaun is believable character and feels more developed than she was in the first book and some loose threads that were under-explored in the first book are finally fleshed out. That said, this book also lacks the focus and, as in the first book, some of the "mysterious" antagonists feel underdeveloped more than occulted. Olemaun and a few of the other protagonists are more subtly drawn with more complicated motives, but the vampires feels just as hallow. The hints at humanity left in some of the vampires is not particularly original, but does add some more depth.
This reads very quickly and is enjoyable, but it is not as ground-breaking as often painted. In short, Niles' character development improves but pacing still is kind of a problem. He sometimes seems to want to do too much in six issues or less. Templesmith's atmospheres are wondering and his character design is improved, but sometimes the over texturing doesn't necessarily add anything. It's worth the read, particularly if one is a fan of Niles or 30 Days of Night.
This reads very quickly and is enjoyable, but it is not as ground-breaking as often painted. In short, Niles' character development improves but pacing still is kind of a problem. He sometimes seems to want to do too much in six issues or less. Templesmith's atmospheres are wondering and his character design is improved, but sometimes the over texturing doesn't necessarily add anything. It's worth the read, particularly if one is a fan of Niles or 30 Days of Night.
January 31, 2022
It's 16 months later and Stella is on a book tour talking for her memoir about the events of the last volume. She's got herself a group of bodyguards that resemble Matrix character rejects.
She's written this book to antagonize vampires. What I liked about the first volume was the vampires showed immense restraint. These were not rabid dogs but a sophisticated organization focused on staying hidden. VOL 1 SPOILERS But I guess Niles decided vampires showing restraint was boring because in this novel they're going full vampire apocalypse.
And yet the authors want to have their cake and eat it too. So, despite the ludicrous amount of destruction and mayhem going on in public places, no one takes any notice.
One scene, in particular, bothered the hell out of me.
One other gripe It's something I would expect from a comedic slasher or a YA romance novel.
She's written this book to antagonize vampires. What I liked about the first volume was the vampires showed immense restraint. These were not rabid dogs but a sophisticated organization focused on staying hidden. VOL 1 SPOILERS But I guess Niles decided vampires showing restraint was boring because in this novel they're going full vampire apocalypse.
And yet the authors want to have their cake and eat it too. So, despite the ludicrous amount of destruction and mayhem going on in public places, no one takes any notice.
One scene, in particular, bothered the hell out of me.
One other gripe It's something I would expect from a comedic slasher or a YA romance novel.
March 10, 2015
3.75 stars
I enjoyed this one considerably more than the first. There was more of an actual storyline to go along with the outstandingly creepy artwork...
I enjoyed this one considerably more than the first. There was more of an actual storyline to go along with the outstandingly creepy artwork...
March 1, 2021
The sequel builds upon the first without being a retread of it, a trick far to many can't pull off.
December 1, 2022
Can't say I was a fan of this volume. Unnecessary sequel made only because the first one made it big time. Set one year after events in Barrow, Stella is doing book tour of her book which tells of vampires and what happened. Vampires are out for blood, still angry because of her husband killing one of their elders. Few nice ideas, tons of cliches, sex between vampire and a human, art style which is frustrating most of the time as you're trying to figure out the stick figures that were supposed be the characters and Niles' lazy writing makes this a volume you might want to skip. Like a direct-to-video sequel of a huge Hollywood blockbuster, which wasn't great by itself, but was a success on box office so it got a sequel.
October 26, 2019
Pas très convaincu par le style graphique qui parfois laisse le lecteur dans le flou. L'histoire, suite directe du tome 1, est en elle-même plutôt sympathique quoique assez banale. La toute fin donne tout de même envie de lire le 3e opus.
July 9, 2018
Not as great as the First Volume I think.
There were certain things I did not like.
But yet the ending was good.
The story could have been better.
There were certain things I did not like.
But yet the ending was good.
The story could have been better.
September 18, 2020
A very dark version of Buffy & Angel. Nice twist at the end.
October 18, 2024
Just like the first of this series, the art really stands out as interesting, visceral, and sometimes aventgarde. The story is also a step up from the previous, but the dialog feels dated and holds it back. Nice for a quick read.
May 24, 2025
Just as good as first. Vampire font annoying
November 4, 2018
This volume was a little more hefty [at 144 pages], so I was hoping that the plot was a little less fast paced than the first one, was it? Yes and no.
It's longer in that there's more pages, but not a lot more actually happens. The transition of time is still incredibly vague [it's probably less than 30 days], but we at least see a little more of the day to day events, we have more of an idea of what our protagonist, Stella, is going through. It still feels like we rush through the story, like we skip from one main plot point to another without very much buildup in between. It's still not easy to fully immerse yourself in the story, or sympathies with what the character[s] have been going through.
There are some parts I genuinely don't understand why they happened, there are throwaway characters [there just to move the story to the next main plot point], and the part right before the end felt very like it should be deus ex machina, but instead of something coming to save the person nothing happened. There was this big, dangerous buildup [that was trying to be very tense], and then just NOTHING HAPPENED. YOU CAN'T JUST WALK INTO THE LIONS DEN TO SAUNTER OUT. It felt like the author wrote himself into a corner, and then didn't want to end the story by killing off his main character and just went "naaaah, she'll be fine". With all due respect, Stella should have been a lump of bloody guts on the floor, there's absolutely no reason she should have walked outta that house without a scratch on her, NO REASON.
To save you the trouble here's a soft spoiler, the end is supposed to be all happy and heartwarming, and then a twist happens [I think we can all guess what]. The very last bit is very reminiscent of the end of Bram Stockers Dracula.
Am I gunna read the rest of them? I don't wanna. But I probably will.
Do I recommend this one? I wouldn't unless it has some huge impact on the next volume [and I know there's a next volume cause there's like 11 ish in total??] It doesn't add much to the previous story. It mostly focuses on Stella trying to live her life after Eben's death, and trying to make the world aware that vampires are real. If you wanna read about vampires reacting to someone trying to expose them, then maybe pick this up. If you liked the previous one this one might not be completely to your taste, we still have all the blood and violence, just less of it.
Honestly it's one long epilogue. That's it, that's the perfect summary, it's just a really gosh dang long epilogue.
It's longer in that there's more pages, but not a lot more actually happens. The transition of time is still incredibly vague [it's probably less than 30 days], but we at least see a little more of the day to day events, we have more of an idea of what our protagonist, Stella, is going through. It still feels like we rush through the story, like we skip from one main plot point to another without very much buildup in between. It's still not easy to fully immerse yourself in the story, or sympathies with what the character[s] have been going through.
There are some parts I genuinely don't understand why they happened, there are throwaway characters [there just to move the story to the next main plot point], and the part right before the end felt very like it should be deus ex machina, but instead of something coming to save the person nothing happened. There was this big, dangerous buildup [that was trying to be very tense], and then just NOTHING HAPPENED. YOU CAN'T JUST WALK INTO THE LIONS DEN TO SAUNTER OUT. It felt like the author wrote himself into a corner, and then didn't want to end the story by killing off his main character and just went "naaaah, she'll be fine". With all due respect, Stella should have been a lump of bloody guts on the floor, there's absolutely no reason she should have walked outta that house without a scratch on her, NO REASON.
To save you the trouble here's a soft spoiler, the end is supposed to be all happy and heartwarming, and then a twist happens [I think we can all guess what]. The very last bit is very reminiscent of the end of Bram Stockers Dracula.
Am I gunna read the rest of them? I don't wanna. But I probably will.
Do I recommend this one? I wouldn't unless it has some huge impact on the next volume [and I know there's a next volume cause there's like 11 ish in total??] It doesn't add much to the previous story. It mostly focuses on Stella trying to live her life after Eben's death, and trying to make the world aware that vampires are real. If you wanna read about vampires reacting to someone trying to expose them, then maybe pick this up. If you liked the previous one this one might not be completely to your taste, we still have all the blood and violence, just less of it.
Honestly it's one long epilogue. That's it, that's the perfect summary, it's just a really gosh dang long epilogue.
July 15, 2012
This is the sort of fiction that the vampire genre needs. The vampires don't sparkle, they don't throw about all that "b-grade gothic bullshit", and there are varying factions within them. Not every vampire is the same, but there are certain generalizations that one can make about them. The moral questions raised in this volume were fantastic, and I hope that the rest of the series continues in this vain. Also... doesn't it just make sense that they've infiltrated the FBI and other such resources?
Not to give too much away, but the ending was perfect. The artwork was stunning, and the script left nothing to be desired. The characters are ones that it's easy to empathize with, or at the very least, to understand. The motives are there, and the vampires are just human enough.
This is the sort of horror that I adore, and I am so glad that the series is living up to my expectations.
Not to give too much away, but the ending was perfect. The artwork was stunning, and the script left nothing to be desired. The characters are ones that it's easy to empathize with, or at the very least, to understand. The motives are there, and the vampires are just human enough.
This is the sort of horror that I adore, and I am so glad that the series is living up to my expectations.
May 5, 2013
Dark days is the sequel to 30 days of night and follows Stella as she attempts to reveal the existence of vampires to the world.. Stella is one of the few survivors of the Barrow massacre and her journey takes her into the heart of Los Angeles, not the pretty sunshine side but the more grittier, underworld side. Stella now has a crew of killers and they are focused on revenge, using her newly published book of the events at Barrow to draw the vampires out.
More bloodshed all the way and we are introduced to the wife of the elder vampire Vicente killed by Ebon, certainly a scary looking individual, she's out for vengeance but first must make a deal with Stella.
The artwork is as good as the original, with the same haunting atmosphere and the story while not as good as its predecessor does enough to hold your attention and the final issue is excellent as one we thought dead is bought back to life.
More bloodshed all the way and we are introduced to the wife of the elder vampire Vicente killed by Ebon, certainly a scary looking individual, she's out for vengeance but first must make a deal with Stella.
The artwork is as good as the original, with the same haunting atmosphere and the story while not as good as its predecessor does enough to hold your attention and the final issue is excellent as one we thought dead is bought back to life.
September 24, 2007
So it turns out the superfluous sub-plot in the original 30 Days of Night was to setup one of the two protagonists in the sequel. If you aren’t insulted by putting up with a worthless story in the original so that you can make sense of it in the sequel, then this is fine. However, this volume also throws the helplessness, isolation and relatable characterizations out the window in favor of militant vampire-hunters and some scenes that strain disbelief worse than the entire first story combined (including a public massacre in a college auditorium that somehow doesn’t out the vampires). For what its worth, our two main characters are more entertaining together than any pair in the original, but they are entertaining in a pulpy, less realistic way.
October 7, 2023
This follow up to the original series was good, but I did have issues with mainly one plot point..
So Stella has written a book detailing the vampire attack from the first series in attempt to expose vampires. However, no one really believes her and its presented by the publisher as fiction. The vampires do believe her though, and soon come after her.
A good follow up to the first series.
So Stella has written a book detailing the vampire attack from the first series in attempt to expose vampires. However, no one really believes her and its presented by the publisher as fiction. The vampires do believe her though, and soon come after her.
A good follow up to the first series.
February 12, 2018
Thoughts:
* The art is still pretty dreadful. The humans are ... grotesque. It hurts both my eyes and my soul to gaze upon them.
* That and I can't tell wth is going on in any of the action sequences. I like the colors at least.
* It's 16 months later yet it's only been 13 months since Taylor died? How does that math work exactly?
* Stella's rebound guy is a vampire, which ... okay. BUT THERE IS ZERO CHEMISTRY THERE PEOPLE AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO RISK A GUSHING CAROTID ARTERY AT LEAST MAKE THE BOY IS WORTH IT.
In summary, I will keep reading, if only to reach the Kelly Sue DeConnick issues.
* The art is still pretty dreadful. The humans are ... grotesque. It hurts both my eyes and my soul to gaze upon them.
* That and I can't tell wth is going on in any of the action sequences. I like the colors at least.
* It's 16 months later yet it's only been 13 months since Taylor died? How does that math work exactly?
* Stella's rebound guy is a vampire, which ... okay. BUT THERE IS ZERO CHEMISTRY THERE PEOPLE AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO RISK A GUSHING CAROTID ARTERY AT LEAST MAKE THE BOY IS WORTH IT.
In summary, I will keep reading, if only to reach the Kelly Sue DeConnick issues.
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