Given what we've seen of the comics so far, it's easy to see how someone might come away with the idea that they were doing something merely based on the '91 Series and/or an alternate version of it. But that's not the case. As co-creator of the comics, David Campiti put it: "A lot of elements in the new series were left unexplained or underdeveloped. Our first 4-parter takes place in the continuity of the 3rd hour of the mini-series, where Julia says 'It's been 10 weeks since we started Barnabas' cure.' A lot can happen in 10 weeks - and it did." Campiti also said that questions examined in the comics are: "How does vampirism work? Why did some people die from a vampire bite, while others didn't? How could Barnabas give Josette a music box in 1790, when they didn't exist yet? Exactly what are the family relationships? What is the secret of Victoria's past? All these unanswered questions, and many other, will be dealt with." They also explore how Barnabas, a product of the 18th century, deals with the 20th century - and how he hopes to convincingly fit in with no suspicion (and that's where we're presently at in Book1/Issue1). But what's probably most important is that Campiti also said the storylines and characters in the first 4 comics (Book1) "read as though we've written 4 excellent hours of the show and dropped them at that point right into the TV mini-series' continuity" with the word "continuity" being the most important word there. Though as we've plainly seen already, despite that claim, the continuity of the comics doesn't always jibe with the continuity of the mini-series. And this is also despite the fact that the comics were also presented as containing what were to be considered new elements of canon within the '91 Series...
