Despite my copy of Night Breed #2 having a damaged cover, the interior is perfectly fine, just so you’re aware. It feels right to continue reviewing the Marvel’s run of Clive Barker’s Night Breed during Pride Month, especially as the openly gay creator filled his world with a huge amount of blatantly queer subtext. As an aside: can it even be called subtext if it’s that obvious?

In any case, we join the story in an unusual place in issue #2, with our apparent protagonist dead, and the blame for a spare of horrific murders planted squarely on him. Yet it’s not long before Boone’s body disappears, and the real murderer can’t seem to shake his addiction to killing, as Lori, Boone’s partner, finds out. And then the ‘monsters’ make their presence known…

A lot of ground is covered in Night Breed #2; perhaps a little too much. The pace does mean that the storytelling becomes a bit rushed, and we hurtle between locations and plot beats without time to truly take in what’s going on. The world of the monsters, Midian, for example, is introduced in a bit of a whirlwind sequence; we could definitely do with slowing down and taking in a bit more detail than the movie’s budget allowed, especially as the artwork and creature design (some of the latter borrowed from the film’s visuals) is so strong.

Though it’s cool to recount the original story with some expansion, I’m actually really looking forward to getting it out of the way and continuing the Night Breed saga beyond the film; this comic series lasted for 25 issues, with only the first four adapting the movie itself, before heading into uncharted territory. Let’s see how the next few issues wrap things up, and how the series continues the story of Boone, Midian and the Night Breed, which we were denied onscreen.

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