30 Days of Night #2

[cyberghostface]

"Steve Niles, the writer of 30 Days of Night, gave me the description. He wanted the vampires to be eating machines. In the comic books we fleshed them out a bit more over time and gave them more back history, but in the initial story they were treated as a force of nature.

I was vaguely scientific about that initial description and one of the best eating machines on the planet is the shark. That is why they have shark-like teeth for eating the meat. They eat everything. These guys are primal; visceral. The old vampire legends were not about delicate, emo people. They were quite savage and nasty so I made our vampires savage and nasty. They also have black nocturnal eyes so they can function in the dark and I gave them quite long claws as well. They are half classic and half primal animal. I don't do any of the more romanticised, emo, frilly shirt types. Vampires are the Star Trek of the horror genre. They have just been done in so many ways." -- Ben Templesmith

Comments

[buttz]

This was such a short series, but these few pages do a great job of explaining the hierarchy, character, and history of the vampires without the usual "I've caught a human and before I kill them I'm going to go on an exposition-heavy history monologue for seven pages for the sake of the reader" nonsense that seems to be so common in modern comics.