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30 Days Of Night Paperback – March 27, 2007

by Steve Niles (Author), Ben Templesmith (Artist)

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In a sleepy, secluded Alaska town called Barrow, the sun sets and doesn't rise for over thirty consecutive days and nights. From the darkness, across the frozen wasteland, an evil will come that will bring the residents of Barrow to their knees. The only hope for the town is the Sheriff and Deputy, husband and wife who are torn between their own survival and saving the town they love.

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104 pages
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English
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IDW Publishing
Publication date

March 27, 2007
Reading age

16 years and up
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6.4 x 0.3 x 10.1 inches
ISBN-10

0971977550
ISBN-13

978-0971977556
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Editorial Reviews

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“…a short, sharp shocker of a horror tale with an original premise and a Matterhorn-sized mountain of tension.” –Maxim

"The comic in your hands has much of the raw, even brutal energy of a horror movie from the good old days. Short, sharp and unforgiving. It's got a catchy title, a wonderfully clever, but simple idea at its chilly heart, and a narrative that starts at a run and never slows down." — Clive Barker

"Writer Steve Niles plays on common fears of isolation, darkness, and monsters in a story that's more chilling than its locale. A good writer could extrapolate any one of these fears into a thrilling story, but
Niles succeeds in pushing all of these buttons with the right frequency to produce a story that's not just chilling, but downright scary." —Jim Johnson, Comics Buyer's Guide

"Above all else, 30 Days of Night reads like a horror movie—a great horror movie. If you thirst for something that's guaranteed to scare the pants off you, you've gotta pick this up. But take my advic —read it with the lights on." —Casey Seijas, Wizard Magazine

About the Author

Steve Niles is a comic book author and novelist, known for works such as 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, Simon Dark, Mystery Society and Batman: Gotham County Line. He is credited among other contemporary writers as bringing horror comics back to prominence.

Ben Templesmith is a New York Times best selling artist and writer most widely known for his work in the comic book industry where he has received multiple nominations for the International Horror Guild Awards as well as the industry's top prize, the Eisner Award. He also won a Spike TV Scream Award. As a creator, his most notable works have been 30 Days of Night (which spawned a major motion picture) and Fell. His other projects include the critically acclaimed serial Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, as well as Welcome to Hoxford, and Singularity 7, all of which he also wrote.

Product details

Publisher : IDW Publishing (March 27, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 104 pages
ISBN-10 : 0971977550
ISBN-13 : 978-0971977556
Reading age : 16 years and up
Item Weight : 10.5 ounces
Dimensions : 6.4 x 0.3 x 10.1 inches

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Not a fan of the art, story wrapped up too quickly and easily

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2018

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A town full of people, a town full of darkness, a town full of vampires.

In this comic series by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith the small Alaskan town of Barrow seems to be the perfect community for Vampires to prey on. But they didn’t count on one thing, the length that the local sheriff would go through to protect his town.

There really isn’t a whole lot of dialog in this series so the writing is ok and standard fair for a comic as this. However I really didn’t care for the artistry, it was too artsy. I found myself trying to guess what is going on in the comic at times. It’s almost as if I took my glasses off to read the comic (terrible thing to do, don’t do it).

I also thought the ending was a bit too “simple”. This big bad guy apparently the head Vampire comes into town and in a few pages the whole thing is done. They wrapped up this storyline way too quickly. I’m not sure if that was due to financial restraints limiting how many comics they could do in this first series or what.

It is available DRM free via Comixology so if you buy it via Comixology or Amazon you can get a DRM version.

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Great idea, but too short to be worth reading

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2017

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I was very, very excited for this graphic novel after reading so much of the hype. After reading it, I have to say I'm very disappointed. Fantastic idea for a graphic novel, but terrible plot. The first issue does a great job building up the plot & characters....and then the second issue basically picks up with only a few survivors left. All the interesting action or plot as to the method the vampires used to take over the town? Glossed over in a few flashback panels. It's as if the author didn't feel like writing a full graphic novel, so just skipped over the meat of the book. The second & third issues of the book wrap up nicely, but overall was very disappointed with the length and lack of content. Felt very point A to point B, with no thought given to making the volume feel worthwhile.

3 people found this helpful

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Coach of Alva

Better Than the Movie

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2019

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I loved the story well enough. I was very pleased that Marlow here was a vainglorious punk instead of a pseudo-intellectual who insisted on torturing his victims with his philosophy before finishing them off. But what made this a great comic was the artwork. The cold, horror, filth, isolation, despair all came together in very dark atmosphere. I was put off by the non-realistic treatment of the humans at first but I came around to it by the end.

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KateM

30 Days of Night

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2014

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There's a lot to like with this graphic novel, visually it is pretty stunning although it might not suit everyone. At times it looked quite blurred as though the artist doesn't want you seeing some things too clearly. The artwork still looks pretty amazing but consistency seems to be a bit of an issue, I noticed this more in the beginning of the comic more than the end.

The colour palette is dark, to suit the hopelessness of the survivors situation, with vibrant red being used liberally when blood is splashed about and that it something the artist is not shy with. These are not your romantic vampires, they're the good old fashioned vamps that happily rip out your throat and revel in the mayhem they cause.

A couple of things bothered me, one is that there is no time line in the comic as to how many days have passed. It makes it seem as though everything is happening on the first night when in fact the conclusion to the story comes in right at the 30 day end. The plot line with the people from New Orleans is never really explained, who they were, why the woman wanted photographs or how they would fit into the rest of the series. I felt they had no real bearing on the story and therefore superfluous to it's needs.

An enjoyable read and a series I might buy more of it the price is right. Recommended.

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Creatures of the Night Find Paradise

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2007

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After the film adaptation of 30 Days of Night received only so-so reviews, instead of waiting for the movie on DVD, I decided to take a look at the original comics/graphic novels created by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith.

Interestingly, 30 days was originally fielded unsuccessfully to studios as a screenplay before Niles hooked up with Templesmith to create the comic. Once the comic came out, even studios that had originally rejected the movie pitch were knocking down the 30 Days creators' doors to get the film rights (according to a 10/18/2007 IGN.com article).

Anyway, when I looked up 30 Days at Amazon, I found that more than just one version existed. There is the original 30 Days of Night ; there is #2 called Dark Days ; and there is #3 called Return to Barrow . There are even more in the series too, but the above three complete the trilogy created by the original partnership of Niles & Templesmith.

The first is the story of vampires that invade a small town (called Barrow in Alaska) at dusk on the first evening of 30 days before the sun will rise again. The second story is one of revenge; a survivor of the first story hunts and seeks to expose the existence of vampires; and the third story has the brother of a victim from the first story returning to Barrow to discover and expose the awful truth of what originally happened in the town.

The first 30 Days story is what the movie was based on. It's a fast read that took about an hour to get through. As an effect, the way the vampire's lines are written in the text bubbles is crooked, thin-fonted and sloppy; I suppose this was to trying to illustrate the sound of the vampire's voice, but it mostly made for some hard to read, headache inducing text bubbles.

Dark Days and Return were good, but not great like the original. But it was an overall fun series. I'll probably pick up the November 2007 release of 30 Days Of Night: Eben And Stella that picks up and fills an interesting gap between Dark Days and Return to Barrow. Niles is back for Eben and Stella, but Templesmith is out.

As for the movie 30 Days of Night , I'll check that out too after it comes out on DVD and let you know if it really 'bites' like others have said it does.

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Aspidistra

Low budget horror story with striking, unique art

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2019

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The story, a gang of flesh eating vampires descending on a small town in Alaska during it's annual winter month of darkness is straight out of low budget horror - there is no deep and meaningful exposition here, just a simple tale of attempted survival against the odds, in the same bracket as Assault on Precinct 13, or Night of the Living Dead. When I heard it started out as a failed film pitch I wasn't at all surprised. I agree with those who feel the story seems more like three days than thirty (we seem to reach the end awfully suddenly) but what lifts this out of the ordinary is Ben Templesmith's unique art.

Templesmith's distinctive cartoonish style, with scratchy ink work, splatter and washes, his characters gleaming in obscure, gloomy backgrounds might not be to everybody's taste but I love it and it's the reason I bought this book. Otherwise I can take or leave out-and-out horror books and I have no desire to see the film that was eventually made. Here the violence is impressionistically implied with deft splashes of colour, not painstaking delineated gory bits. If you love to see every muscle and sinew lovingly depicted with anatomical accuracy, this might not be the book for you. But I enjoy the light hearted way he draws that (for me at least) leavens the horror with some extremely black humour.

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Vampires as vampires.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2020

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Yet another comic I'd always wanted to get a hold of, and finally have. Don't let the scoring of four stars fool you I like this collection I really do. The artwork's superb, atmospheric yet stripped back, coming across as very harsh and spartan in a way. With a back to basics "vampires are evil!" sensibility, that's got to be admired.
The story's good of course, but it does suffer from me having seen the movie first. The film does have a take on it that adds a little more meat to the bones. Both co creators Steve Niles & Ben Templesmith, contributed to the film so my mild critique isn't a big betrayal anyway. Gory bloodfest. Nice.

UberKuma84

A great graphic novel, but damaged in transit.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2018

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One of the finest and most interesting graphic novels around. The stylistic imagery coupled with superb storytelling makes this a must-have for anyone in to vampiric horror.

Unfortunately my copy got a bit damaged on it's way to me.

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Patrick Sambiasi

Why did they even make the film?!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2017

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Absolutely loved this graphic novel. The style is absorbing, terrifying and so incredible detailed. It's just art....and it's incredible how much it can convey with just a 100 or so pages. Definitely better than the film if you are here for that reason too! For horror fans I'd say it is worth every single penny

R J Archer

Good story, quality of book terrible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2018

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The story was good, but unfortunately the spine of the book was damaged, or the pages had not been bound correctly which caused all of the pages to fall out .. . very disappointing. I have contacted the sellers, who usually provide great products, and will wait for their response. However, this particular one is no good.

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