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Again I must say that DayBlack isn't the worst comic out there and the premise is surely interesting. Merce is a former slave turned into a vampire, who now works as a tattoo artist. He has come up with a tattoo needle system that draws blood at the same time allowing him to get his dose without killing people in this small town called DayBlack, where sun doesn't shine. I surely liked the idea and the needle thing was quite innovative. The problem is that there's basically no plot and the whole thing is very messy and sporadic. Why is Merce seeing those dreams, falling asleep all the time, why are the slayers Mexican and wearing wrestling masks and why does the comic suddenly end like that? So many questions and no answers. Most of the texts were quite childish too and played with the most cliched vampire stereotypes.

The art is interesting, really. The usage of just black, white and red was very effective alongside with some color splashes like the CD covers. DayBlack is surely a very funky comic looks-wise and reminded me of Ornette Birks Makkonen comics. Some of the pages seemed out of portion though, as if the pages had been modified wrongly. In a way it felt like the art was the sole reason to make this worthwhile the read, since otherwise the comic was quite boring. Structure-wise this would've need a lot of work. The snarky way of the text felt so stupid and naive - this surely is a shame, since the base works. The characters are interesting, the idea is great and even the art functions - now it's a great loss that the plot and structure that binds them together is so weak that it makes this a meh meh experience at best.