In a post-apocalyptic dystopian future (in a Jeff Lemire comic? That’s completely unheard of!), child vampires roam an empty city surviving on rats - until a human survivor stumbles across their path and they realise they’re not as alone as they thought. Tasting human blood for the first time in centuries, the group splits between those who want to continue their established way of life and those who want to venture out and see if there are more humans to feast upon. Which side will wi… zzz…
Little Monsters is basically a crappier Walking Dead minus the zombies, any interesting conflict or characters plus vampires - itty bitty ones. Even Dustin Nguyen’s art is mostly black and white with occasional colours appearing for blood, the moon and one of the character’s graffiti art.
There are a lot of characters introduced and none are really that memorable. If you read/saw Interview with a Vampire, you’ll know how child vamps come about and Lemire hasn’t deviated from this formula, so you can figure out that these kids encountered other vampires who turned them when they were young. We still get their pointless origins showing this even though they add nothing further to what most readers will already have guessed.
There’s nothing that wrong with Lemire’s writing or Nguyen’s art, I just wasn’t the least bit interested in anything that was happening and couldn’t care less which kid vampire side wins against the other or whether the human characters survive or learn to co-exist or whatever… Everything about this series feels unoriginal, derivative and completely unexciting. I don’t know who would find this title worthwhile - fanboys of these creators? - but I didn’t get much out of the eminently skippable Little Monsters, Volume 1.
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