NIGHT CLUB II #4 (OF 6)
DARK HORSE COMICS
STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Juanan Ramírez
COLORS: Fabiana Mascolo
LETTERS: Clem Robins
EDITOR: Daniel Chabon
COVER: Juanan Ramírez with Fabiana Mascolo
EDITORIAL: Sarah Unwin
VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Juanan Ramirez
32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (December 2024)
Rating: 18+
Night Club created by Mark Millar at Netflix
Night Club II is a six-issue miniseries written and created by Mark Millar and drawn by Juanan Ramírez. A Dark Horse Comics publication and a Netflix production, Night Club II is a sequel to the 2023 miniseries, Night Club. Both series focus 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 II's creative team.
Night Club II focuses on 17-year-old Danny Garcia. After being turned into a vampire, he passed his new found powers unto his friends, DJ Sam Huxley and Amy Chen. Now, they're the superheroes: Starguard (Danny), Thundercloud (Sam), Yellowbird (Amy). But jealousy has broken up this vampire-superhero trio...
Night Club II #4 opens as Risso, Kendra, and their friends run wild through their Philadelphia stomping grounds. As the high school jocks and cool kids, they were bad enough when they were regular human beings. As vampires, they are monsters. Risso was a minor thug for the local drug lord, Rufus Tee. Now, Risso wants everything Tee has, including his life.
These young vampires are terrorizing the town and not even the cops can stop them. Amy/Yellowbird is alone in the wake of what seemed like Danny/Starguard's destruction. What is her next move if she is going to stop Risso and Kendra in their vampire tracks?
THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. The latest received is Night Club II #4.
Writer Mark Millar uses the first issue of Night Club II to bring us to the current state of affairs. With the second issue, Millar quickly moves things forward, and shit gets real deep, real quick. Issue #3 is the best and most consequential of this series... so far. Now, issue #4 moves into the aftermath of the third issue's shocking affairs. I think that there are a lot of “secrets” to Millar's three-decades long successful tenure writing comic books for U.S. publishers. One of them is that he always has at least one major surprise per issue, and that surprise never seems contrived. In this fourth issue, Millar shows off another “secret of his success,” and that is to always keep things fresh. I'll be honest, dear readers, after this fourth issue, I thought Risso should have his own comic book.
Artist Juanan Ramírez has built this narrative on capturing the reckless nature of young people with too much power, regardless of whether this power is natural or supernatural and criminal or evil. Ramirez's storytelling has made Night Club II a vampire comic book like no other. Stylish and gaudy, Night Club jumps off the page with Ramirez's incomparable graphics. Colorist Fabiana Mascolo brings the funk and flash to Ramirez's art. Clem Robins' lettering, as always, is a perfect accompaniment.
Night Club II does not disappoint, dear readers. It is one of the standards in American vampire comic books.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of vampire comic books will want to be bitten by Night Club II.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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