“30 Days of Night: Dark Days” is the second part of Steve Niles’ and Ben Templesmith’s original trilogy, and it’s a great read to which I’d give a 9 out of 10.  It expands on the pretty minimal story set up in the first book; we learn more about the vampires and see Stella Olemaun’s crusade to fight them.  It’sa first-rate, creepy, no-holds-barred horror comic.

My only quibbles are small.  Templesmith’s skilled and atmospheric art is sometimes so murky we have a hard time following the action, or even differentiating among characters.  There’s also a horrible plot point in which Stella apparently has sex with a vampire.  (It is as exactly as stupid as it sounds.)

This is still a great book though.