Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The scene with the little girl vampire feasting on a corpse and speaking English. In the book all the vampires speak English but in the film, Vicente speaks only in Black Speech and most of the other vampires only communicate with animalistic noises.
Catharsis Factor: Rufus throwing Billy Boy out the window into the sun after he showed no impulse control and brought the enforcers down on them with indiscriminate killing.
First film: The mysterious figure known only as "The Stranger" is a Vampire Wannabe out to sabotage Barrow for the coming massacre. Murdering the animals of Barrow, the Stranger proceeds to cut the power and all communications, leaving Barrow open so all its people can be massacred. The Stranger then tries to murder the Sheriff's brother, all the while mocking the people about the monsters coming for them.
Dark Days: Lilith is the vampire queen responsible for the attack on Barrow. She tortures a couple who saw the remains of a vampire, tearing out the man's tooth and lapping up the blood pouring from his mouth. Later on, Lilith orders Norris to murder the woman by ripping her throat out before turning him. Onboard her ship, Lilith keeps many humans captive—including children—and has them slowly drained of blood. When Lilith ambushes Stella and Paul, she orders Norris to bleed them out before chasing Stella across the ship when they escape, taunting her about the death of her husband.
Narm: While a creepy character, the little vampire girl is hard to take seriously when you notice she wears a friggen Einstürzende Neubauten tattoo.
Sequelitis: The first 30 Days is noteworthy for its departure from so many worn-out vampire cliches, even borrowing a few details from zombie stories back before it was fashionable to do so. Dark Days, by contrast, is as paint-by-numbers as you get, replacing tense survival horror with generic guns-blazing action and reintroducing several of those vampire cliches in the forms of Dane, a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire who works with the vampire hunters and feeds on blood packs; and Lilith, a sexualized, blood-bathingVampire Monarch (named Lilith) whose design hits much closer to Cute Monster Girl than even other female vampires. She even has a human pet! That doesn't stay human. The kicker to this? The script is co-written by one of the creators to the comics.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The sequel is very loosely based on the original continuation to the original comic, so this was bound to happen with comic character adaptations. Dane himself unfortunately suffers this the worst: while in the comic itself he becomes one of the key players, here he gets demoted to a side character very fast and then suffers an extremely unfitting Death by Adaptation halfway through.
Ben Templesmith's unique and gritty style in the first three arcs of the series, as well as Red Snow and Juarez. The frightening vampires, background colors, and blazes of gunfire are especially striking.
The oil painting style of Beyond Barrow is detailed and rich in color, but perhaps the most consistently praised part of it is the detail that’s put into the blowing snow, large snowdrifts, and the northern lights, which really captures the cold of an Alaskan winter.
"Juarez or Lex Nova and the Case of the 400 Dead Mexican Girls", from Bloodsucker Tales: Eduardo Reyes is a powerful businessman, running the city of Juarez, Mexico. Purely out of boredom with his riches, Reyes starts an operation that involves the rape, murder and mutilation of numerous women, using a factory as a front; his body count has reached 400 by the time the story starts, with his work being mistaken for that of a vampire, drawing quite a bit of attention. Looking to find someone to use as a scapegoat, Reyes, confronted by vampire clan leader Bingo Zero, make an arrangement to feed Zero and his clan some of his victims. Reyes learns of a young prostitute Lex rescued, who happens to be the sister of one of his victims, and picks her up to be murdered. Claiming to have caught the real killer, Reyes leads a mob to his home to burn it down, with Lex and Bingo fighting within. Afterwards, Reyes covers up his murders by stating his plans to renovate the city for its losses, promising the women are "always safe" in his hands, as he suggestively places his hand on a young girl's shoulder.
Spreading the Disease: Reverend Gant, a vampire who has grown to believe that vampires are the true Master Race, has an astronaut infected with vampirism to slaughter his crew in space, experimenting with tainted blood to turn others, causing massacres in a hospital and night club while having huge amounts of innocent people slaughtered as food for his followers or as failed subjects. Gant then attempts to send tainted beer to a football stadium with 70,000 people in it, resulting in dozens of thousands of innocents turning while Gant gloats to those still human that "God just doesn't love you" as he orders a mass slaughter.
George, the Addled AddictPlayful Hacker who works for Vampire Hunter Judith, only has minor roles in each arc he appears in but has a good number of fans for his likable attitude, useful skills, and Small Role, Big Impact moments. His being bitten and experiencing an abrupt case of Transhuman Treachery is one of the only unpopular things about Return to Barrow.
Badass NormalGenius BruiserHunter Trapper John Ikos and his Brawn Hilda ally and eventual girlfriend Deputy Donna Sikorsky are only introduced in Return to Barrow and tend to play second fiddle to other protagonists, but make favorable impressions on the fans every moment they spend fighting vampires.
Olbrecht, the head of the vampire hit squad from 30 Days Til Death, gets some love for being a downplayed Noble Demon who is a formidable warrior who mostly targets unsympathetic vampires but is capable of feeling Worthy Opponent respect.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Three Tales has an issue entitled Dead Space. Ben Templesmith — the artist for 30 Days of Night,Dark DaysReturn to Barrow, and Red Snow — ended up doing the artwork for some of the Dead Space comics.
Unintentional Period Piece: Barrow was renamed Utqiaġvik in late 2016, making the comics dated to before the name change.
Bork Dela is a brutal vampire who views any recognition of humanity as a weakness. Bloodthirsty even by vampire standards, Dela is thought to have introduced Hitler to the occult, and may have had a hand in his death. In the present day, Bork Dela goes on a murder spree in Savannah, Georgia, draining men and women alike of their blood and severing their heads, earning himself the nickname of the Headsman, and supplying blood to the corrupt vampire Elder Enok. During his rampage, he beats and rapes a young woman, leaving her to eventually die giving birth to his offspring.
Enok is the rogue Elder who turned both Vicente and Lilith. Expressing disdain for the other Elders who seek to remain hidden from humanity, Enok seeks to overthrow the human race as the dominant species and reduce them to cattle, rounded up in slaughterhouses and systematically executed. Enok holds the dismembered but still "living" Lilith captive to be tortured by his underlings. Confronted by Dane and Eben, he sentences Dane to a violent death and very nearly kills Eben for not submitting to him.
