Since Julia's own family members were among the "living dead" (or whatever), this begs the question as to why she was so obsessive in her initial pursuit of Barnabas.
I'm not sure exactly when it will come up, but I remember Campiti claiming that his reasoning for giving Julia the background that he does in the comic is to flesh
exactly why Julia is so obsessive in pursuing Barn. Take that for what you will.
I can't recall if the script for the 1991 initial confrontation when Julia reveals her "research interest" to Barnabas includes the dialogue about her long search for someone who could span the worlds of the dead and the living.
I don't recall her saying anything like that then (or even at any point in the series) - but I'll check out the scene just to be sure.
That Barretttown storyline (one wonders if the town name is an odd tip of the cape to Nancy Barrett?) really slithered way down the cliff very quickly from what I recall of the issues I did see way back when.
Oh, so you do recall what's coming up. Though saying it slithers down a cliff very quickly is putting it mildly. But as I've said, thank heavens there are other plots in the comics that, well, if they don't exactly make up for it, they at least balance it and come across as much more satisfying from a perspective of what we're used to thinking of as an actual DS plot.
The comment Campiti relates in the SOW article above about Curtis' people saying that if they'd seen the proposed plots for the comic, Campiti and Rockwell would have been writing for the TV show is both interesting and frightening. All I can say is given which aspects of Book1 that Campiti takes credit for and which aspects Rockwell takes credit for (both of which we will learn along the way), all I can say is in certain respects thank heavens Campiti was nowhere near the TV show! Rockwell, on the other hand, might have made for an interesting addition. And the really interesting thing there is that Campiti is the longtime DS fan and Rockwell was never a fan until after he signed on to do the comics...