Wow MB, we aren't anywhere in the same universe on this. The only thing haunting about this issue is how hauntingly bad the artwork is. You said it doesn't always work...name some examples where it does.
Well, I really like how the funeral is depicted on Pages 1 and 2. I think Pages 8 and 9 depict the cold associated with Barnabas and Vicki's walk really well - from their breath escaping from their mouths to the way Vicki's hair blows in the wind, it all makes me want to put on a coat.
I also like all the pages (Pages 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13) that deal with Granny Whitlock. And even though the '91 Series never did it that way, I like how the ghosts of Robin and Sarah are depicted as shimmering.
Though given all that, as I said in reply #74, I'm not a fan of the second panel on Page 15. It's a perfect example of what codelphia.com described as "murky artwork" in this issue...
Abstract is one thing but visually illegible is something else.
Exactly.
The comics started off so brilliantly but was already going off the rails with Barrettstown
An interesting thing to remember is that David Campiti was responsible for Barrettstown - and it's definitely where Book 1 went off the rails. However, the aspects of that issue that dealt with Barnabas all came from Scott Rockwell. And what's even more interesting is that Barrettstown, which was decidedly not DS-like, came from the one of them who claims to be a huge, life long DS fan, yet the Barnabas material, which is decidedly very DS like and some of the best stuff in Book 1, came from the one of them who didn't become a DS fan until he was asked to work on the comic. And the latter point is one of the reasons I had high hopes for what Book 3 might have turned out to be had it been allowed to continue past Issue 1. But...