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Title: Dark Days by Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith, Jeff Mariotte ISBN: 1-932382-16-X Publisher: IDW Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good read
Comment: I love Steve Niles work, and became interested in his stories after reading 30 Days of Night. I found Dark Days to be an excellent read, picking up the comics as they were released. Niles tells a great story revolving a survivor from Barrow trying to convince the rest of the world that vampires do exist. While character development may not be great, for a comic its good enough. Besides, most of the character development was done in 30 Days of Night, and doesnt need to be rehashed here. Templesmiths artwork, as always, is great and lends itself well to Niles storytelling. If you enjoyed the first book, I highly recommend this sequel.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic sequel
Comment: Having only discovered Steve Niles' work a few months ago, he is rapidly becoming one of my favorite comic book creators. In "30 Days of Night," a small Alaskan town was beset by bloodthirsty vampires during a month-long period of darkness. In this series we follow one of the survivors, the wife of the sheriff who sacrificed his life to save the town, as she fights to make the world believe in the menace that destroyed her husband.
Niles has an incredible ability to take concepts as old as vampires, zombies and werewolves (in his Cal McDonald stories) and find new and intriguing angles to view them through. We get to see a woman try to convince a skeptical world that vampires are real, that they have worked for centuries to cultivate the belief that they are fiction, and that they are very dangerous. Niles doesn't go for the easy ending, either -- this is a story even more brutal than "30 Days," and one that leaves you shivering.
Ben Templesmith's artwork isn't something I'd always go for, but it fits the tone of these stories perfectly -- scattershot, disjointed... horrific, but with a strange elegance to it.
This is one of the best horror comics on the stands these days, and I can't wait for the paperback of the third book to hit the shelves.
Rating: 1
Summary: Terrible! Trees died for THIS?
Comment: Being moderately intrigued by the Thirty Days of Night, I decided to pick up the second installment. While the first book didn't blow me away, it was decent enough. This book astounded me with shoddy writing, character development, and UNFORGIVABLE transparency in regards to the plot and the "shocking" developments thrown in by Niles. The art is solid the entire way through, but essentially we are given cardboard cutouts of characters that are supposed to be edgy and cool. The few characters that do have some depth are instantly thrown into ridiculous situations by Niles that defy belief. I felt punished reading this comic. In reality, I didn't care when the secondary characters got cut up, sliced, diced, etc. In any circumstance if there existed were an obvious choice to be made by the writer, it was made with lightning speed. I wonder who thought that this script was anything even approaching acceptable? Not to mention the "SHOCKING" ending sequence that was mind-numbingly dumb. I am still so angry after reading this comic, not because the ending did not please me, because the ending was obvious. Perhaps someone thought, "This will be edgy, they won't expect it, it'll be cool." WRONG WRONG WRONG. I want my twenty dollars back. Since the rights to Thirty Days of Night were bought for a hefty sum, I think that someone owes me some money. I will not read anything by Niles again. This comic is so self-aware in its attempt to be edgy and hip I could hardly stand to read it. Niles does not impress in this unforgivably lame excuse for a horror comic. Just terrible. Stay far away! Don't buy this if you value your time, money, or sanity. Horrible beyond comprehension.
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Title: 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith ISBN: 0971977550 Publisher: Idea and Design Works Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend by Steve Niles, Elman Brown ISBN: 1932382089 Publisher: IDW Publishing Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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