As long as I have been reading comic books, I have never heard "Slice" used as a sound effect. Maybe in a story about golf.
But I've thought that it's supposed to indicate that Barnabas' cane is slicing open Willie's skin, in which case it's very disturbing.
Mail probably dropped off because of the severe lag time between issues. Why write if there's nothing new to write about?
True.
I do find the remarks about future projects quite interesting. I don't think that it's any secret that the original cast member referred to is Lara Parker and that she reworked her idea for Angelique's Descent. I do wonder how that story would have fit into the DS Innovation universe since that Angelique is somewhat different than the original character.
Upcoming comments in SG will give some hints about what they were planning. Aspects of it were very different from
Angelique's Descent. And that might have been a good thing. But we'll never know...
Was the original novel that Campiti mentions ever completed? Is it out there as a kind of Hawkes Harbor parallel? And what about the book of short stories? I wonder if the ones written by Kathy Resch and Marcy Robin surfaced in any of the fanzines? And who were the three other authors referred to?
I doubt that we'll get any answers at this point.
IF Campiti's novel ever came out with something like a
Hawkes Harbor reworking, it's a well kept secret - and those sorts of secrets rarely stay secret in fandom. So, I would tend to doubt it's seen the light of day. But who knows? And who knows what the answers are to your other questions? If SG ever had info on them, I don't remember reading it - but it's been more than 25 years since I've gone through the SGs I've been going through for the comics' slideshow, so I may have simply forgotten. But if answers are in SG, I'll come across them eventually...