Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #1

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #1
Boom Studios
Written by Marc Andreyko
Art by Piotr Kowalski

Louisiana is known for many things, voodoo and dark magic is one of them. In 1945, a group of men went in to the Bayou and encountered a zombie who was protecting another. He fights them off but is not able to stop them completely. The hunting party sees the other zombie and hang her. During this same time in Boston, a Senator Emory is leaving an outing with friends. He heads to a brothel to meet his favorite. As he walks through the other women who offer their services, the madam tells them the Senator is already taken.

Going through this, I could see the two different stories that are separate but you could see some a thread of commonality, but not enough for me to not get a tad confused while reading. As for the art, it worked for this story. Detailed enough for you to see the different locations but just off enough to know this isn’t normal. Paneling was well done. You didn’t get lost in the pictures and that helped the story flow. Lastly, the cover art matches the art of the story, a personal like if mine.

This is an odd one for me to review. Even though there was no traditional heads up in the beginning of the book, you do get a little idea of what’s going on because of a storyteller giving a hint of the overall situation. Because there was no real connection between the two stories, I saw it as two stories. Also, it wasn’t enough information for me to want to keep reading. What was there was good though. Hence, my issue. I would say read this one in the store, wait for #2 to come out and read that one. If it makes more sense, get both, if not leave them there. I give this 2.5 caps out of 5.