I should probably puff this up more, I'm just averse to puffing. But if you want to see the original series again, this is it. If you want to see a
Dark Shadows comic book, this is that too, but with photos from the series (cause I can't draw for b. If you want to see what
Dark Shadows would have looked like on
Mystery Science Theater, this is pretty darn close to that too.
The very early caps were a lot like MST3K until I realized that MST3K isn't funny in print. A picture of a guy flailing about, captioned "Hi-keeba" doesn't get a laugh even though it does on TV (the timing is all different). I tried plot based commentary caps for a bit and they weren't funny either (because you weren't hearing the original story at the same time). In the end, the only way to make it work was to actually re-tell the story, rather than comment on the story, and have the jokes come out of the mouths of the characters, rather than cappers or cute robots. (Although after that was done, Dan Curtis and Bob Lloyd were re-introduced as the Statler and Waldorf of
Dark Shadows, for occasional commentary. (It worked again, once there was a story being told for them to comment
on.)
Here's 2 more sample episodes I didn't link to before, but which everyone will recognize. Barnabas rises as a vampire for the first time and kills his wife (it's actually a lot funnier than it sounds).
http://graeme.50webs.com/burkedevlin/ch410/index.htm
