Boardindex Page Montage/aka 'Book 1'?

[Uncle Roger]

I seem to remember reading (and I don't remember where at this point)  that the town was initially going to be called Bennettstown. I don't remember why it was changed.
And, yes, the shark is about to be jumped. Big time!

On a more amusing note, the fact that E. Silas Smith lived in Twin Peaks is just one of my favorite DS references.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the nineteenth page -

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I have to say I was very intrigued when I first read that last bit: "--AND THEY'RE VERY, VERY GOOD AT REVENGE." But I'm not quite sure if it's ever followed up on. It might be. I suppose it all depends on how one looks at it. But if it is, it's not in the way I thought is was possibly portending. Or maybe the comics were just never able to get to that point...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

SG #59 also shared the artwork for Julia's monologue about Barrettstown:

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[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the twentieth page -

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And take note that the page contains a panel and several bits of dialogue that weren't included in the slideshow...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

As we get closer to the end of Book1 Issue1, I want to begin to share other things in the issue. To start off, here's the first page of the first article (twenty-fifth page):

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[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the second page of the first article (twenty-sixth page):

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Considering how E. Silas Smith altered Barn's portrait, it's interesting that the article features a photo of the actual artist working on it. And the only other place that I'm aware that the photo of Vicki and Carolyn was ever published was in SG #51 - but of course there it was in B&W.

The article has one more page to go...

[Uncle Roger]

I especially like the picture of Joanna Going and Barbara Blackburn! Thank you so much for sharing this, MB! I don't think I've seen any of these pictures elsewhere.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I probably should have mentioned that the Vicki/Carolyn photo was taken during the production of the pilot (SG #51 is dated June 1990). Actually, I believe all three were taken during that time. The photo with DC looks like they were setting up for the scene in the pilot in which Barnabas explains about the clock.

And as far as I know the other two photos have never been published elsewhere.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the twenty-first page -

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And take note that the page contains a small bit of dialogue that wasn't included in the slideshow...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the last page of the first article (twenty-seventh page):

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Given just the discrepancies and liberties taken with the actual show that we've already seen, apparently their definition of "carefully" is a bit different from that of some fans.    And as we'll see, they wanted to take the story in some decidedly odd directions.    But as I've said, they also wanted to take things in some seemingly satisfying directions, so it's probably best to try to focus more on those aspects of the comics. (Though at this point in the slideshow some of the not so satisfying material is yet to come...)

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the first page of the second article (twenty-eighth page):

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[Mysterious Benefactor]

Be sure to check out all three quotes in today's slideshow - there hasn't been an entry with three in quite a while.

And who knew Barnabas liked to burn his victims' dead bodies? I'm pretty sure he's never done that in any version of DS. "Burial or disposal in the sea," on the other hand, is one of his frequent methods in all but hoDS, in which he does just leave them "lying about in plain sight for anyone to stumble over"...

And if I recall correctly, Barnabas' explanation of what Julia termed "the mechanism" of vampirism is going to come back to haunt the comic because at least one reader is going to take exception with one aspect of the explanation once we get to the letters in the feedback column (which begins with Book1, Issue 2)...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the second page of the second article (twenty-ninth page):

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It's interesting that the finished version of the sketch of Vicki in the top left corner of the page and the finished version of the sketch in the bottom right corner of the page turned up being Book1, Issue 1, Page 1 and part of Book 1, Issue 1, Page 7, respectively, but a finished version of the center sketch is nowhere to be seen anywhere in Book 1. I suspect, though, that it might have been a preliminary option for Book 1, Issue 2's cover - and we'll see why that is before too long...

[Uncle Roger]

Barnabas usually left Willie or some other unlucky character to dispose of the empties. Burning the bodies would have drawn an awful lot of attention to the scene. I don't know how long it would take to burn but I'm quite certain that someone would have complained about the smell.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I don't know how long it would take to burn but I'm quite certain that someone would have complained about the smell.

I would think so too, which is why it's an odd thing for Barn to say...