Never By Night: Disturbing Passages Into The Unknown #2 - SnowyWorks [Part Four]

NEVER BY NIGHT: DISTURBING PASSAGES INTO THE UNKNOWN No. 2, October 2025

Quite possibly saving this horror anthology’s best story for last, Jonathan Chance’s “Collect Them All” is also this comic book collection’s most straightforward zombie-fest thriller – at least at the beginning when it seems that the author is simply corralling as many hapless innocents as he can muster into Pirate Pete’s Pizza House before unleashing a flesh-hungry cadaver amongst them. Enjoyably however, things don’t actually pan out that way at all, with the writer cleverly shifting the focus away from the adorable little Missy and her doting grandfather on to the staff working behind the counter at the fast-food diner.

This switch is remarkably well done, and definitely helps stop the narrative from flagging during its middle as the likes of David and Josh desperately attempt to leave the restaurant despite police marksmen cold-bloodedly gunning down any one reckless enough to escape their containment zone. In addition, the tale provides an intriguing cause behind the sudden and undoubtedly deadly outbreak, which will no doubt appeal to any within the audience who enjoy countrywide administration conspiracy theories; “But if you wanted to be the first to break the story… on the bio-hazard disaster at the Techizo Corporation and what the U.S. Government did to cover up a major outbreak occurring here.”

By far this yarn’s biggest hook though has to be the author’s ability to mix heart-warming emotion with sense-shattering action. The kind, loving relationship between the aforementioned little girl and her granddad is genuinely moving, especially once the child falls to the merciless infection and her elderly carer refuses to give her up to her ungodly craving for human brains. Nonetheless, such sentimentality is also quickly pushed from out of the readers’ minds, as the few remaining survivors terrifyingly find themselves fighting for their lives against both their former friends, as well as the people they originally thought must be coming to their rescue.

Ably adding plenty of gore and buckets of physical mutilation is penciller Rodel Noora, who alongside colourist Alzir Alves, does a fantastic job of ramping up the publication’s pace once the deaths start occurring. Indeed, the slow speed of this tale’s opening appears to neatly match that of the somewhat doddering old man spending time with his wholly innocent granddaughter, and then dramatically increases once the much younger and energetic protagonists take centre stage.

Written by: Jonathan Chance, Illustrated by: Rodel Noora, and Colored by: Alzir Alves