If you have not read Richard Howell's Deadbeats comic, I do highly recommend it. It's a vampire comic, set in New England (Connecticut rather than Maine) and there are TONS of Dark Shadows references. Two of the leading female characters are visually based on Barbara Steele and Joanna Going. In addition to the characters that I mentioned in an earlier post, there are characters named Nicky Blair, Ginny Vestoff and Denny Nickerson, as well as minor characters named Crothers, Briscoe and Curtis. Plots included such DS staples as time travel and parallel time.
Deadbeats was published by a small publisher called Claypool, so issues were often difficult to find. They stopped publishing print books a while ago, though Howell has continued the saga online. There have been a few collected editions and individual issues of the comic can be found on Amazon.
