No, you're eyes weren't seeing things in today's second quote -
Book Three/Issue One/Page 11 - Granny Whitlock: 'NOW
YOU SKIDADDLE, MAGGIE EVANS! CASSIE'S MY ONLY
COMFORT ON THESE LONG WINTER NIGHTS!' - Granny Whitlock really does refer to "THESE LONG WINTER NIGHTS," meaning it's currently winter!! HUH?!
It couldn't possibly be winter IF, as David Campiti reported, Book 3 takes place "right before the 1790 flashback, around the time of Episodes 6 and 7." Though as I mentioned before, taking place during winter would make more sense given the snow and especially how Professor Woodard is still alive. If the time frame being around Eps 6 and 7 really is true, why does that statement from Campiti fly in the face of what Scott Rockwell has written, particularly when both of them share editor status for these stories? Did they not compare notes? (Though, as I also said, the fact that a certain consulting editor didn't catch the discrepancy is no surprise whatsoever.)
It's too bad that we didn't get all four issues of Book 3 because, like the other two books, there might have been a scene from the '91 Series recreated in the comic. There are no such scenes in Book 3, Issue 1. But if such a scene or scenes might have appeared somewhere in Issues 2 through 4, that would have pinpointed what the time frame actually is...