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There are places dark and moist, invisible to the unsuspected eye, places quiet and away from the city lights, in those places terrible things are living. And then there are really dark places, like that village in Alaska where once every year the night lasts for 30 whole days, you know which, the one those vampires invaded for a field trip, Barrow, that’s the one! After the first limited series by Steve Niles (Criminal Macabre, Hellspawn, The Nail, The Creeper) and Ben Templesmith (Singularity 7, Silent Hill, Wormwood, Fell) and its great success there were many more spin offs, even the worst of them at least a decent reading. This is the latest one, coming up on May, 30 Days of Night – Eben and Stella!

In the finale of 30 Days of Night – Dark Days Stella brought her husband back from the dead but not quite as she expected, he returned a little more hungry than she thought he would. This series will fill in the gaps between Dark Days and Return to Barrow, a twisted tale of love, depravity, and hunger (from the official site) by Steve Niles and Kelly Sue DeConnick in the story and Justin Randall in the art.

It might not be the original masterpiece my Templesmith and Niles but personally I find it rather difficult to stay away from such a title, it’s horror comics at their best and you don’t meet that every day. The vampires remind me of the way Brian Lumley described them in his Necroscope, the art follows the general outlines of Templesmith’s work and the story is really carefully written, not only the main scenario but also the secondary tales and characters. So run to your closest comics store, NO NOT YET, IN MAY, damn he’s gone…