Survival is a hybrid horror/action adventure touted by its publisher, Dark Horse, as “Red Dawn meets 30 Days of Night.” The run certainly delivers on the blood and the guts. Vampires certainly do clash with a group of pseudo survivalist gun nuts. But Survival’s stellar second issue reveals how the true value of this title is only visible when viewed at the right scale.Survival follows a collection of current and former soldiers in isolated Alaska, the site of their annual military alumni reunion. But it doesn’t take long for someone to ruin the run, as a pack of Russian military trained vampires soon declare open season on Americans. Survival swiftly descends into blood and chaos, yet it differentiates itself from other high-octane action fare by splitting its focus between vastly different scales. Survival #2 (By Sean Lewis, Bryndon Everett, Natalie Barahona, Ed Dukeshire, Tomm Coker and Keven Gardner) delves into the series’ most important elements: The Reeds, the family at the center of the action, and the vampires that go by the moniker of “Vlads”. This issue sees the Reed’s and their allies fall back to a nearby ghost town. Here the surviving humans prepare to hold out until they can get an old plane up and running. However, the Vlads have no intention of letting them escape.Survival #2 is so great because it distills the entire run down into a single issue. It achieves this by displaying the varying scales the series has to offer together. Survival hints at a greater, world threatening terror. But its beating heart is the contentious relationship of its central family. Survival #2 opens on a flashback that exposes the raw nerve at the heart of the Reeds. A masked intruder wakes young Emma in the dead of night. She thinks the men who took her mother have come back to finish the job. She soon discovers that it is actually her father, Grady, in disguise. “People’d say it’s evil for me to dress like the men who took your mother,” Grady tells his son and daughter before revealing that this is all part of his mission to teach them to survive. Putting this brutal relationship at the core of the series adds weight to the rest. It is an emotionally riotous center that ensures even quiet moments are fraught with tension.RELATED: Which Was the Best Show to Come Out of the Early 2000s Golden Age of Dark Vampire Anime?
Survival is a hybrid horror/action adventure touted by its publisher, Dark Horse, as “Red Dawn meets 30 Days of Night.” The run certainly delivers on the blood and the guts. Vampires certainly do clash with a group of pseudo survivalist gun nuts. But Survival’s stellar second issue reveals how the true value of this title is only visible when viewed at the right scale.
Survival follows a collection of current and former soldiers in isolated Alaska, the site of their annual military alumni reunion. But it doesn’t take long for someone to ruin the run, as a pack of Russian military trained vampires soon declare open season on Americans. Survival swiftly descends into blood and chaos, yet it differentiates itself from other high-octane action fare by splitting its focus between vastly different scales. Survival #2 (By Sean Lewis, Bryndon Everett, Natalie Barahona, Ed Dukeshire, Tomm Coker and Keven Gardner) delves into the series’ most important elements: The Reeds, the family at the center of the action, and the vampires that go by the moniker of “Vlads”. This issue sees the Reed’s and their allies fall back to a nearby ghost town. Here the surviving humans prepare to hold out until they can get an old plane up and running. However, the Vlads have no intention of letting them escape.
Survival #2 is so great because it distills the entire run down into a single issue. It achieves this by displaying the varying scales the series has to offer together. Survival hints at a greater, world threatening terror. But its beating heart is the contentious relationship of its central family. Survival #2 opens on a flashback that exposes the raw nerve at the heart of the Reeds. A masked intruder wakes young Emma in the dead of night. She thinks the men who took her mother have come back to finish the job. She soon discovers that it is actually her father, Grady, in disguise. “People’d say it’s evil for me to dress like the men who took your mother,” Grady tells his son and daughter before revealing that this is all part of his mission to teach them to survive. Putting this brutal relationship at the core of the series adds weight to the rest. It is an emotionally riotous center that ensures even quiet moments are fraught with tension.
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