I don't know much about Filipe Echevarria but I do remember that back in the day at some point not all that long after Book 3, Issue 1 came out I did a bit of research on him and apparently he'd received quite a bit of accolades over his 3 comic book treatment of Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho. He used the same style for that as he used for Book 3 here, and the essay on the inside front cover of this issue alludes to that. Apparently there are fans of his style in the comic universe, it's just that, unlike what Innovation hoped, perhaps there aren't many in DS fandom.
Although, I do have to say that when he does the characters/actors in close-up, I think for the most part he captures them quite well (there's a great version of Vicki/Joanna Going coming up on the 25th). On the other hand, today I came across this opinion of Book 3 on codelphia.com: "Disjointed storytelling and drab, murky artwork hindered this new, third Dark Shadows storyline, which never was continued. On 31 December 1993, a bankrupt Innovation Comics abruptly went out of business." "Murky artwork" is a perfect description for what I posted in reply #70.
As for the possibility of not being able to get anyone else to work on the DS comics, as the essay also mentions, Hector Gomez, who did the front covers for Book 2, did the front cover for this issue and was supposed to continue to do covers for the rest of Book 3 as well as Book 4 (we'll be sharing some of his Books 3 and 4 cover artwork after this Issue 1 wraps up) and Jose Pimentel did the back cover head portraits for this issue and was supposed to continue to do them for the rest of Book 3 as well as return as the interior artist for Book 4. I like Pimentel's work for Book 2, so I'm really disappointed that we'll never see what he might have done with Book 4...
And while we're on the subject of the comics' artwork, there's an oddly identified piece of it on the front cover of SG #65:
Quite obviously it's not at all done in Filipe Echevarria's style - it looks much more like something Hector Gomez or Jose Pimentel might have done. And actually, it places Barnabas in the same setting that Pimentel had him on Page 18 of Book 2's Issue 1. Perhaps Pimentel did it as preliminary work for that page but later rejected it? (We actually saw how he made changes to Book 2, Issue 1's Page 8 between the time that page was shared with SG and the time it was actually published, including completely replacing the last panel.) It definitely doesn't appear anywhere in Book 2 - or any other book for that matter. And being so different from the art in Book 3, I can't see how SG identified it as such. Though it may not have been SG's fault IF it was identified that way to them and they were simply reporting what they were told...