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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 2
« on: June 22, 2019, 05:50:00 PM »Totally faithful. I guess that depends on how you define faithful.
True. I do think for the most part the comics are faithful to the characters (especially with this current Book 2). But staying faithful to the '91 Series' storyline is when things often go astray...
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I think it's almost a certainty that the paperback graphic never came out. If it had, we would have seen copies selling at inflated prices in the dealers room or an EBay. And one of the more enterprising fans would have found a way to pirate it at even higher prices.
After reading the reason for the delay given in SG #66, I have my own theory of why the trade paperback quite possibly never came out. But I'll hold off until we get to sharing that part of SG #66...
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What is interesting is that none of Innovation's licensed properties have ever been reprinted since the company folded. Certain ones like Quantum Leap are very much 1990's properties and maybe there simply isn't that level of interest in it today.
But DS, Interview With a Vampire, Nightmare on Elm Street and Child's Play have maintained a higher level of interest. The one exception that I'm aware of is that Bill Mumy was somehow able to get his Lost in Space epic Voyage to the Bottom of the Soul back so he could complete the story. I have no idea what kind of strings needed to be pulled for that to happen. There's probably a very gray area in regards to licensing. Innovation owns the printed material but doesn't own any of the properties. And Innovation owed tons of money to all sorts of people when it folded, so those people might be entitled to something if the books were reprinted.
All of that is quite interesting.
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According to Wikipedia, David Campiti left Innovation in 1993, about a year before the company imploded. He seems to have continued to work in the comics industry in a variety of different jobs. None of it very high profile.
Yes, it's interesting that he left Innovation but he still remained closely involved in all the DS projects he'd started while he was there.
Considering Campiti founded Innovation, what would really be interesting would be the reason(s) why he left. But I've never seen anything reported on that front...