30 Days of Night by Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of 30 Days of Night
Book Review: Great Story
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this graphic novel to be qutie original. I loved the story, very inventive. The only complaint I had, and its a fairly minor one, is that I couldn't quite get into the art style. I didn't hate it, its just not my personal choice. I just didn't see what would have been lost if it had been drawn in a normal manor. But overall a great read, and I also can't wait for the movie.Book Review: Great concept, blah execution
Summary: 3 Stars
The concept -- vampires descending on an Alaska town that doesn't see the sun for an entire month each year -- is great. The art is moody and scary and well-done. The treatment of vampires as just plain evil, without any Anne Rice angst, is refreshing.Unfortunately, the execution of the story quickly becomes very same-old, same-old, with the humans on the run from the vampires. Other than the initial premise, there's nothing here that hasn't been done before, more compellingly.
It's worth borrowing someone else's copy, but I can't recommend buying this one. If you like horror comics, spend your money on Alan Moore's "From Hell" instead.
Book Review: Great horror story
Summary: 5 Stars
I'd flipped through this graphic novel at my friendly neighborhood comic shop once or twice, but I didn't pick it up as the art style wasn't one that so much appealed to me -- not that there was anything wrong with it, Templesmith's manic, disjointed artwork fits the horror story perfectly... it just didn't grab me.But when a friend of mine talked me into reading Steve Niles' "Love Me Tenderloin: A Cal McDonald Mystery," I knew I'd have to start snapping up everything he's written. This was the first book I could find.
Set in the small, sheltered town of Barrow, Alaska, this story concerns a troupe of vampires who conclude that holding a "meeting" in a town so far north that the sun does not rise for 30 days each winter will be like a month in paradise. For the residents of Barrow, though, it's hell.
I liked "Love Me Tenderloin" for the smart, sarcastic sense of humor Niles brought to the supernatural. This book is on the opposite end of the specturm -- bleak and violent, but still with a strong, human core. It's a great read that will not disappoint any horror fan. I just can't wait for the Dark Days trade paperback (the sequel) OR the movie.
Book Review: Greta idea, poor execution
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this book because of all the wonderful things I had read about it. Unfortunately, it turned out to be mostly hype. Firsy of all, the story takes place, as the title suggests, over a thirty day period. I found the pacing of the story was doomed by the brevity of the content. The thirty days is over and done with, the sun comes up, and I have no idea where the month went. It felt as if I had read an outline for a larger story. Nothing is fleshaed out, and the protangonist resolves the story in a flash. I really do not understand what people saw in this book. The characters have no depth, not a single one of them. The reader never gets a chance to know either hero nor villian before it is all over. The ideafor the story was fantastic, and I am a huge vampire fan, but I feel it needed to be an epic if it wished to live up to the premise. It needed more time to build and resolve. This is a comic in which the writers ability to execute and deliver a well-crafted horror tale was handicapped by length.Book Review: Horrid
Summary: 1 Stars
30 Days of Night? Try 30 minutes... That's how long it took me to read the thing and that's how long I thought the story took in real time. The writing is awful. The first scene with the sun setting made me want to puke because it was obviously trying to get the reader to care about the two main characters, but ends up making you feel indifferent. The plot is just re-hashed Hollywood horror from George Romero to Dracula movies. Scary? Not even close. While the art seems to be well done it does not lend it self to story-telling at all. I was straining my eyes looking at the panels trying figure out what just happened and who it happened to.
I heard they were making a movie out of this mess. They would be best advised to pull the plug on it now.