In the motion picture 30 Days of Night a small town in Alaska has a month of darkness once a year and during that time a group of longsuffering vampires come out to feast on the population. This series from IDW continues the storyline adding intrigue by way of a Nazi submarine payload that is shot into a glacier near the town ominously in the waning days of World War II.
30 Days of Night: Night, Again
Issue 1
written by Joe R. Lansdale
art by Sam Keith
IDW
The comic starts off with a group of survivors trying to make their way across nearly 100 miles of tundra to the nearest town as the vampires back in Barrow feed on those left behind or captured. Like all comics and serials the story doesn't progress much in a single issue (which is why this reviewer prefers to review trade paperbacks and graphic novels.) In fact, for most of the issue it seems that the story really is just a setting to allow Sam Keith to go wild in his usual sketchy, out of proportion drawings. As much as Keith's drawings should be the star of this comic, I found the coloring was really where this book shined. Keith and Jay Fotos did an outstanding job setting the mood of the book giving the reader an appropriately uncomfortable feeling.
While I am not normally into serials, this series has promise for fans of the movie and continuing stories. The art is detailed and the coloring exceptional. A good start.
