{"id":774,"date":"2007-08-03T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T15:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=774"},"modified":"2007-08-03T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T15:05:38","slug":"30-days-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/03\/30-days-of-night\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Days of Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/30days.jpg\" alt=\"30 Days of Night\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Niles<\/strong> and<strong> Ben Templesmith<\/strong> (IDW)<br \/>\nISBN 0-9719-7755-3<\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of book I just hate to review. Not because of a lack of quality but rather due to a stylistic dichotomy. The premise is sound and compelling for a horror movie (after which the creators pattern the tale) and details the last days of Barrow, Alaska, a town where the sun sets for an entire month at a time. So what happens when a posse of vampires come for an extended visit one sundown?<\/p>\n<p>The dialogue is as realistic as any in a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153slasher\u00e2\u20ac\u009d flick. The narrative rattles along and the action is well-paced. But what about the art?<\/p>\n<p>Ben Templesmith is obviously an accomplished illustrator and works well in an expressive, painterly manner, like a blending of Kent Williams or Jon J Muth&#8217;s watercolours with Ted McKeever&#8217;s figure work. And that&#8217;s fine for mood, but absolute anathema for those parts of the story where clarity is important. Like some of those later episodes of <strong>Angel<\/strong> on TV, too often I simply couldn&#8217;t make out who was doing what to whom.<\/p>\n<p>Comics more than any medium depend on a willing and total suspension of belief and anything that breaks the flow must be hunted down and killed messily. This is a Good Horror Story but I can&#8217;t honestly call it a Good Comic Book.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2005 Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith (IDW) ISBN 0-9719-7755-3 This is the sort of book I just hate to review. Not because of a lack of quality but rather due to a stylistic dichotomy. The premise is sound and compelling for a horror movie (after which the creators pattern the tale) and details the last &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/03\/30-days-of-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;30 Days of Night&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-cu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}