NIGHT CLUB #6 (OF 6)
IMAGE COMICS
STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Juanan Ramírez
COLORS: Fabiana Mascolo
LETTERS: Clem Robins
COVER: Matteo Scalera with Giovanna Niro
EDITORIAL: Sarah Unwin
VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Matteo Scalera
36pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (July 2023)
Rated M / Mature
Night Club created by Mark Millar at Netflix
Night Club is a six-issue miniseries written and created by Mark Millar and drawn by Juanan Ramírez. An Image Comics publication and a Netflix production, Night Club focuses on a teen boy who is bitten by a vampire and decides to make the best of his new condition. Colorist Fabiana Mascolo and letterer Clem Robins complete Night Club's creative team.
Night Club introduces 17-year-old Danny Garcia, who had ambitions to gain fame and fortune as a YouTube star with his friends, DJ Sam Huxley and Amy Chen. Then, after a terrible accident, a vampire bites him, and his life goes awry. Instead of living like a stereotypical vampire, Danny decides to live “la vida loca” of a superhero.
Night Club #6 opens with Starguard (Danny), Thundercloud (Sam), and Yellowbird (Amy) prepare to get the vampire gang overlord, Gunner Joe, and crew his crew before they get them. The best laid schemes o' mice an' men an' teen vampires, however, is a way of saying that things will not go according to plan. In the final showdown, it is clear that one side will have to annihilate the other. So what happens after that?
THE LOWDOWN: Netflix/Millarworld sends me PDF review copies of their comic books. Thus, I have been lucky enough to get review copies of all six issues of Night Club.
Writer Mark Millar and artist Juanan Ramírez offered big surprises in Night Club #5. There was an intriguing origin story and the depiction of the strife between the (apparently) small number of vampires that currently exist. In this finale, Millar sets the groundwork for more rivalries and offers a revelation that it is not so much that power corrupts, but that it inflates the ego.
Ramirez attacks the action in this final issue with gusto. It is somewhere between supernatural violence and rural crime thriller. Colorist Fabiana Mascolo captures the subtly moments and the violence with equal aplomb. Letterer Clem Robins also captures the shifts and tones in mood that lay the groundwork for what is to come in future Night Club series.
Night Club is a truly unique spin on vampire comic books the way the 1997 film, Near Dark is certainly a unique take on the vampire movie. Night Club #6 is quite a nice end of the beginning, and it will probably seem even better in trade paperback form
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of vampire comic books will want to be bitten by Night Club.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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