Very true - Eva Green first referred to the film as a "black comedy" back in April before shooting even began. Interestingly, though, she seems to be the only person connected to the film who has described it that way. But be that as it it may, back in April I looked up the definition of a "black comedy" in the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms:
"black comedy: a kind of drama in which disturbing or sinister subjects like death, disease, or warfare, are treated with bitter amusement, usually in a manner calculated to offend and shock."
And as I said back then, that definition would seem to jibe with the descriptions we've been getting of the film being dark, bloody and scary along with it being funny. But it doesn't necessarily fit in with fears that the film itself will be a comedy rather than a drama with comedic elements to it. So, at the present anyway, I'm not worried - particularly when the humor in a show like American Horror Story, which is anything but a comedy, has also been described as "black comedy." And if the humor in the DS film is dealt with in similar ways to the humor in that show, I'll have absolutely no problem with it.
What should really give us the tip off of what the DS film will be like will be the trailers, and presumably also the posters - and one day we will finally get them...
92 days 10 hours 31 minutes 17 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!