Official Press Release

San Diego, CA — Horror mastermind Steve Niles (30 Days Of Night) and Kieron Dwyer (Last Of The Independents) harvest a whole new crop of zombie terror with Remains, a new horror series from IDW Publishing.

Reno, Nevada is an unlucky town for a blackjack dealer and an exotic dancer who find themselves trapped in a casino, surrounded by zombies trying to cash their chips in for good.

Are these two unlucky players a modern day Adam and Eve? Will they make it out of this city of madness? Only Steve Niles knows, and he’s not telling…

“This isn’t so much a love/horror story,” says Niles, “as it’s a story of waking up next to someone you wished you hadn’t slept with… oh, and the world has been overrun by flesh-eating living dead, too.”

“Zombies aren’t the newest monster on the block,” IDW Editor-in-chief Jeff Mariotte adds. “But they may be the coolest, especially the way Niles and Dwyer bring them to…well, not-life. Fans of the flesh-eaters are going to want to get in on the ground floor of this new classic.”

Remains #1 is a 32-page, full color comic book, on sale in May, 2004, at a retail price of $3.99. Copies signed by writer Steve Niles will also be available, with a retail price of $19.99.

IDW PUBLISHING is a division of Idea + Design Works, LLC, a revolutionary creative service company with a wide range of clients. Among IDW’s titles are CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s 30 Days of Night and its sequels, Dark Days and Return to Barrow; Ashley Wood’s Lore; CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations; and Steve Niles’ Wake The Dead, Remains, Aleister Arcane, and Hyde. Columbia Pictures has optioned the movie rights to 30 Days of Night, with Sam Raimi attached to produce. Konami is producing a video game based on CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations. Dimension Films has optioned the movie rights to Wake The Dead and Hyde.

Don MacPherson of comics review Web site The Fourth Rail gave the 30 DAYS OF NIGHT ANNUAL a nice review. Don said:

“When IDW announced it was going to publish a sequel to Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s hit vampire comic, I was looking forward to it, but I was unsure how they’d pull it off, given the finality of the first story. Well, Dark Days proved to be inventive and riveting. And if there were any lingering doubts as to the storytelling potential in the monster-laden world of 30 Days, this anthology special will put them to rest. Niles builds upon the ideas put forth in 30 Days and Dark Days, and he follows up on a couple of supporting characters from those titles as well. Overall, the stories here are quite accessible, and even newer readers can discover what makes Niles such a strong horror writer.”

Signed copies of the 30 DAYS OF NIGHT ANNUAL are available in the SteveNiles.com Store.

Steve Niles received some exciting news on Thursday when he learned DARK DAYS, the six-issue mini-series by Steve and artist Ben Templesmith, had been nominated for an International Horror Guild Award in the category “Illustrated Narrative.” The competition is fierce and here’s the full list of nominees.

• ENDLESS NIGHTS: THE SANDMAN, BOOK 11, words by Neil Gaiman; art by
  Glenn Fabry, Milo Manara, Miguelanxo Prado, Frank Quitely, P. Craig
  Russell, Bill Sienkiewicz, Barron Storey (DC/Vertigo)

• THE WOLVES IN THE WALLS, words by Neil Gaiman; art by Dave McKean
• THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, Volume II, words by Alan Moore;
  art by Kevin O’Neil (DC)

• DARK DAYS (Six Issue Mini-Series), words by Steve Niles; art by Ben
  Templesmith (IDW)

• THE GOON, Issues 1-4, words and art by Eric Powell (Dark Horse)