danhacker:
Just finished reading ‘30 Days of Night: Three Tales’
Written by Steve Niles with artwork by a number of various artists, this collection furthers the story of the world that ’30 Days of night’ was set in. More importantly… It features vampires in space. Let that sink in for a minute. Vampires in space …. Is a god damn brilliant idea! Horror comic writer Steve Niles is not the strongest writer, he doesn’t create memorable characters and isn’t really capable of conveying strong emotional attachments to the people in his stories, but he’s a genius at creating the perfect horror movie scenarios. ’30 Days of Night’ was not a strong story, but the premise was unique and that’s is what Niles excels at as a writer. Here he creates another story with a stellar premise. A NASA astronaut gets infected and turns into a vampire during a space mission and all hell breaks loose in a spectacular gory fashion in space. There really isn’t much more to that accept for some government conspiracy sprinkled throughout which actually flushes out the world that ’30 Days’ is set in. If you like vampire and enjoyed ’30 Days of Night’, I highly recommend this. Plus its vampires in space, and where else are you going to get a story like that.