Boardindex Page Montage/aka 'Book 1'?

I hope that the problem clears up soon.

Sorry to hear about the problems. Hope he can find a resolution soon, purely for his own peace of mind!

I hope that the problem clears up soon.

Sadly it wasn't that soon because the promised two hours to fix things turned into two days! Needless to say, I wasn't happy while the problem persisted - but the issue is resolved now and things can get back to normal and my peace of mind is restored. 

Here's the eighteenth page:

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And this page would seem to be a rarity because no panel or dialogue was skipped...

Here's what should have been yesterday's installment in the slideshow:

Book One/Issue Two/Page 19 - Barnabas: 'SARAH!'

And here's today's installment in the slideshow:

Book One/Issue Two/Page 19 - Barnabas: 'SARAH-- WAIT!'
Barnabas: 'PLEASE STAY AND TALK TO ME!'

I needed to squeeze the panel in order to get both Barnabas and Sarah in the image for the slideshow. The actual panel looks like this:

And if you're not seeing today's comic image/quote in the slideshow on the BoardIndex page (and are still seeing the June 3rd installment for the hoDS slideshow), you need to clear your browser's cache.    Or if you prefer to just go by the way it's presented here, then just wait until June 4th's installment comes up for things to get back on track...

Glad to hear you're back online! Wishing you all the best!

G.

Ditto!

Here's the nineteenth page:

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And this time no dialogue was skipped but several dialogueless panels were...

Also note two things:

• there is a similar sequence in the pilot except that the beginning and the end are different. In the pilot, Sarah calls to Barnabas while he is snarling outside Vicki's room - and he never catches up to Sarah because she vanishes into the night, and after she's done so, Barnabas collapses to his knees.
• and that they designed their own gravestone for Sarah - but all that's important is that the years match the '91 Series, and they do.

Not wild about the color selections used here. Just about everything is some variation of blue which washes out any detail.

Oops - sorry about not updating the slideshow until just a few minutes ago. But I was binging on Netflix and completely lost track of time, as one will when doing that. 

A sketch for the twentieth page:

Here's the twentieth page:

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And once again no dialogue was skipped...

Also note two things:

• there is a similar sequence with Julia and Woodard in Hour 4 of the '91 Series - though, of course, considering it's an invention for the comics, there's no mention of Julia's research about her family history. Her stated reason for still staying on is that she's still treating Joe, which brings yet another instance where the comic seems to ignore that Julia already had a reason for staying on, which is Joe, so she doesn't really need another, as Mr. Campiti seemed to think.
• plus in Hour 4 Woodard insists the vampire is still out there and Julia is really waiting for it to strike again, which she says is absurd. And not only that, but Woodard comes right out and accuses Barnabas of being the likely candidate to be the vampire, which is something Woodard doesn't do in the comic.

Just my personal opinion--several pages ago, the writing of this story went down the drain and never came back.

Just awful rubbish. But perhaps somebody out there enjoyed it.

G.

I forgot to mention yesterday that another thing that's interesting when it comes to Page 20 is, unlike in past instances, there are several differences between the sketch version and the final version. In every panel there's either something in the sketch version that isn't in the final version or vice versa. So much for the notion that I'd had that the sketch versions were used to directly create the final versions of each page...

Just my personal opinion--several pages ago, the writing of this story went down the drain and never came back.

Just awful rubbish. But perhaps somebody out there enjoyed it.

Well, the last two pages simply reworked material that had already been on the '91 Series - and that was most likely for the benefit of readers who may not have watched the series and to take liberties with material so that it would fit better with what the comic writers had in mind. Though, particularly with Page 20, they came up with their own dialogue which at times did leave a bit to be desired.

For me, the comics work best when they stick to new and reworked events at Collinwood. When they introduce new material apart from Collinwood they tend to go off the rails, as we'll be seeing very soon (starting with Page 22). Talk about going down the drain! But when it comes to the direction Book 1 will be taking, I somehow suspect the writers felt they needed to add that sort of material to attract "regular" comic book readers who may not have been all that familiar with DS. Who knows? Though as I said before, it does strike me as not only interesting but frightening (and not in a good way) that DCP supposedly not only signed off on what's to come in Book 1, they remarked that if they had seen Book 1's proposed plots while the '91 Series was in production, they would have hired the comic's writers to write for the series! Perish the thought when it comes to the stuff that will take place in Barrettstown!!

One thing I do have to say is, as interesting as I find much of the beginning of Book 1 to be, for the most part I enjoy Book 2 much more than I do Book 1. Though thankfully we haven't seen the last of some worthwhile material to take place at Collinwood in Book 1...