30 Days of Night TPB Will Be Signed

[JCVaughn]

[From ICv2.com]

30 Days of Night TPB Will Be Signed
First 7,500 Copies

January 12, 2003
IDW Publishing has announced that the first 7,500 copies of the 30 Days of Night trade paperback will come with a tipped-in plate featuring the signatures of creators Steve Niles (writer) and Ben Templesmith (artist).  Since this "signed edition" actually represents an overprint, retailers can still place advance reorders and receive the signed editions.  The book will remain in print after these copies are gone, but only the first 7,500 copies will include the tipped-in plates.

The trade paperback edition of the surprise hit horror comic also includes eight new pages of story that have not appeared in any of the 30 Days of Night comics, and, as a special bonus, Steve Niles' 24-page script for the first issue of the comic series.  The trade paperback edition will now contain 104 pages, but the price will remain the same as when it was solicited, $17.99.

30 Days of Night is a high concept comic -- vampires taking advantage of Alaska's month-long winter darkness -- that was sold to Hollywood before the first issue had even appeared.  Even though the film version of 30 Days of Night is still in the planning and production phase, the comic series has done very well on its own, and the trade paperback edition was Diamond's #1 selling graphic novel for the month of January.

[BillyTucci]

I found something very interesting in  the newest edition of "Creative Screenwriting." On page 71 is the winner of the 2001 "Page One Screenwritng Contest".  The winner is a Eric Heissner of Cypru, Texas.   When I first heard of "30 Days..." I flipped out on what a geat idea it is!  Looks like someone else thought so too.

Here it is:

EXT. ICY DOCKYARD - DUSK

Wood planks cling together in a plus-sign formation across the lip of the Artic Ocean.  Among the battered whaling ships, a small freighter bearing the Red Cross logo bobs at the dock.

From the deck emerges GORMOND, as oily and wrinkled as a gas station dollar bill.  Bundled against the cold, Gormund hurries down the gangway.

He steps onto the snow-packed tundra and passes a sign:

               WELCOME TO BARROW, ALASKA
               The Northernmost US City

EXT. BARROW - DUSK

A mote of civilization on the ass of Old Man Winter.

The LOCALS, mostly fishermen, drink and dance to loud music under tents outside town hall.  Cheap Christmas lights dangle from the bleached jawbones of bow-head whales, suspended over doors.

Gormund approaches a SMILING LOCAL, their breath illustrated in plumes.  The Local shoves and open beer in Gormund's hands.

GORMUND
What's the occasion?

SMILING LOCAL
Festival of lights.  To celebrate the last sunset.
(pointing)
For the next sixty-five days, we live in perpetual darkness.

An orange smear of sun slowly collapes on the horizon.

Gormund stares at it, a smile spreading over crooked teeth.

INT. FREIGHTER HOLD

From the blackness, a metal door creaks open.  Gormund's silhouette frames the opening.  Flourescent light flickers on.

The entire hold is lined with two dozen teak coffins laid atop a carpet of gray-brown earht.

GORMUND
Soon, my masters.  Soon

[JCVaughn]

The January issue? No, that's not it. I actually had the January issue with me today... that is so weird. Is that the December issue?  :o