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« on: June 23, 2019, 08:17:51 PM »
Another point that I meant to mention: what makes a good Dark Shadows story does not necessarily make a good comic book story. Both the Innovation and Dynamite books feature a higher amount of blood than either version of the television incarnation. Which is fine if what you're doing is a pure horror book. But the comics never really captured the romance and the unique tone of Dark Shadows in general. Jonathan Frid best described it as a dark Brigadoon.
And, lastly, a lot of the Innovation material comes off as somewhat of a vanity project. I was never all that invested in the idea that Josette's music box was supposed to be created as Angelique's way of cursing the Collins family indefinitely. While I have always been intrigued by Julia's past, her link to Barrettstown was not what I was expecting. So Julia is descended from a family of witches that may be connected to Angelique. That struck me as a cheap gimmick and robbed Julia of what made her character unique. Her humanity. An origin for Angelique? Potentially interesting. Her mother? Not so much.
It just seems like Campiti and company were giving readers what they wanted them to have, not what the readers actually were interested in. I know that I have mentioned this before but I wanted to see some kind of resolution to the NBC cliffhanger. If Innovation had been on any kind of schedule (a big if), they wouldn't have gotten around to addressing that until 1994 or 1995. By which point, no one would have remembered and possibly not care.