IDW PUBLISHING – @IDWPublishing
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STORY: Steve Niles
ART: Piotr Kowalski
COLORS: Brad Simpson
LETTERS: Tom B. Long
COVER: Ben Templesmith
VARIANT COVERS: Piotr Kowalski with Aurore Folny; Ashley Wood; Ben Templesmith
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (December 2017)
DIAMOND CODE: OCT170412 – Wednesday, December 20, 2017
30 Days of Night was a three-issue horror comic book miniseries written by Steve Niles and drawn by Ben Templesmith. IDW Publishing originally released the miniseries in 2002 (August to October). 30 Days of Night takes place in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost town in the United States.
It is so far north that during the winter, the sun does not rise for 30 days. This is the perfect scenario for a group of vampires that take advantage of the prolonged darkness to invade Barrow and openly kill the townspeople so that they can feed at will. A small band of humans, led by a young sheriff, struggle to survive this monstrous onslaught.
The original 30 Days of Night was followed by numerous sequel and spin off comic book titles. It also yielded a line of novels and was adapted into a 2007 theatrical film and a direct-to-DVD sequel. Now, IDW is rebooting the 30 Days of Night comic book franchise in a new comic book series, entitled 30 Days of Night, of course. It is written by Steve Niles; drawn by Piotr Kowalski; colored by Brad Simpson; and lettered by Tom B. Long.
30 Days of Night #1 opens in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost community in North America. Here, the sun does not set between May 10th and August 2nd. It also does not rise between November 18th and January 24th each winter. And the temperatures average below zero. Many of the townspeople are leaving before this year's time of darkness, but those who stay behind in this isolated Alaskan township will have to survive a new evil that emerges to terrorize the town.
Nothing happens. 30 Days of Night is practically 20 pages of nothing. What little suspense, mystery, or intrigue, this first issue does not have enough of anything scary to qualify as a horror comic. It is not that Steve Niles' writing is bad; this 30 Days of Night #1 is simply first-issue introduction by decompression gone really bad.
Nor is Piotr Kowalski's art poor. It is simply as generic as Niles' writing.
5 out 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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