The following picks up where reply #66 left off with what SG #62 had to share in October 1992 -
- and covers most of what was in that SG, though there's still more to share when it comes to what was planned beyond Book 2...
With regard to what's written here, first, I can totally see what transpires between Willie and Barnabas on Page 1 of Book 2, Issue 2 (and into Page 2) as something the '91 Series would have done. Given Willie's devotion to Barnabas (for reasons Maggie Thompson will get into in yet another article written by her and one I'll be sharing soon) Willie would have definitely bought Barnabas a Christmas gift - and while Barnabas holding Willie and not Pete and Fred responsible for what happened to Vicki may seem terribly skewed logic at best on Barnabas' part, it does fit in perfectly with his character at the time these events take place. Plus, down the line the comic will make an attempt to further explain why Barnabas treats Willie so violently this time around - but that's still quite a while away in the story. For now it's just a tragedy that Willie's gesture was mostly for nothing.
And I have to say I got another good chuckle when, as part of this report, David Campiti once again claims that they're monitoring things "to be sure" Book 2 is "as consistent in its continuity as the first 4." Yeah, right! As explained in the topic for Book 1, those issues have almost too many inconsistencies with the '91 Series to count. And his claims that readers like the consistency is also a laugh because, as I also mentioned in the topic for Book 1, I know for a fact that, sadly, several people who wrote into the letters column had their letters edited of any questions about valid inconsistencies (not simply, as Campiti claimed, complaints about the number of candles in a candelabra, which I agree with him is excessive to complain about). All that being said, though, Book 2, while not without its inconsistencies, is far more within continuity than Book 1.
And finally I do have to wonder if changes were made to Book 2 after some of Campiti's remarks here were made because it's not just the cover of Book 2, Issue 2 that would seem to be different from the actual Book 2...