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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
LOVED the drawings...amazing atmosphere. Steve Niles has single-handedly re-invented the vampire, stealing it back from the trashy, paranormal bodice rippers!
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore
The art in this book felt like something out of a Korn album cover, odd-looking and dripping with early 2000's angst. All the characters have this strange, uncanny valley feeling about them. It seems as though their bodies are hand drawn and then photographed human faces are superimposed over them. The final product is weird and at first I wasn't a fan, but as the book went on I realized it was probably the book's strength.
The story itself is straight forward. Vampires invade an isolated town in Alaska where the sun disappears for a month. Mostly fun, gory and a little campy.
It was decent but not very memorable at all. The movie isn't bad though.
The story itself is straight forward. Vampires invade an isolated town in Alaska where the sun disappears for a month. Mostly fun, gory and a little campy.
It was decent but not very memorable at all. The movie isn't bad though.
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Both the story are the art are very sketchy; not in a bad way, but it’s a stylistic choice.
dark
fast-paced
I remember watching this movie when it first came out and loving the way vampires were portrayed, as vicious animalistic monsters. Over the years books and movies have made vampires to be something soft and this took it back to the nightmare fueled stories of the past. Coupled with the aspect of being trapped in a remote town that is completely cut off from the outside world and lives in absolute darkness for a full 30 days this gave me all I love in a good horror novel. I did also enjoy the illustrations of this graphic novel and can’t wait to get the rest of the series to finish.
I loved this graphic novel. I really enjoyed it being set in the future from the original and showing how the town didn’t just ignore what happened it the last. They prepared themselves determined to never let what happened before happen again.
Niles' pairing of the X-Files with 30 Days of Night is a bit predictable. I always appreciated that the actual show didn't go the more obvious route of things like zombies and vampires; so I guess that's my only issue with this graphic novel. It has a fair amount of violence that can be attributed to the franchise of 30 Days of Night. There's less mystery with the heightened gore, and for me that mystery is what makes the X-Files special. I really liked the art, though... yap. Sorry guys.
This is one of those situations where I really wish that Goodreads had a half-star option because this is a definite 3.5 for me. I love the concept--love it to itty, bitty pieces--but the execution was rough. The pace was breakneck, which would be awesome with this story if the artist was anyone other than Templesmith because with him behind the pen, I couldn't tell what the hell was going on most of the time or pick out individual characters in a group. There was one panel with the cop couple standing over a vampire and they looked identical, which I don't think was on purpose. I'm interested enough to want to read the next volume but I wish that someone would pick up this idea and make a book out it instead.
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A