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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #30 on: January 21, 2020, 07:44:50 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Roger on January 17, 2020, 02:33:21 AM
Maybe it was intentional, maybe not but this aspect of the story reminds me of one of the Gold Key comics. Both featured an old lady on the outskirts of Collinsport who had a collection of dolls that seemed to animate themselves. Granny Bumpers, the old lady in the Gold Key story turned out to be Angelique. I wonder if this story was also headed in that direction.

Given some of the remarks David Campiti has made about Book 3, I suspect the story wouldn't go in the same way as that Gold Key issue. Also, in the future we'll be seeing possible evidence from this issue of how this story is a very different one with regard to Granny Whitlock. But that's still probably a few weeks away...

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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #31 on: January 21, 2020, 08:38:01 PM »
Quote from: Gothick on January 21, 2020, 02:28:13 AM
How odd. Today's illustration from the comic book looks as if it could have been used by Burton as a storyboard for a sequence in his DS movie.

That's possibly true. Though what's drawn in the comic -


And from today:

-is probably closer to a scene in the 5th hour -



- of the '91 Series. A scene in which Vicki gives Barnabas Sarah's diary...
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #32 on: January 21, 2020, 08:57:36 PM »
Thanks, MB. I don't recall that scene at all.

Those cliffs really scream California...

cheers, G.
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #33 on: January 23, 2020, 06:03:27 AM »
Quote from: Gothick on January 21, 2020, 08:57:36 PM
Those cliffs really scream California...

They sure do. As does the sunlight.
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #34 on: January 23, 2020, 06:40:41 AM »
Well, one thing to keep in mind is those screen caps from the '91 Series came from the DVD and, therefore, have incorrect color timing. That scene didn't look quite like that when it ran on NBC or when it's viewed on VHS...
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #35 on: January 23, 2020, 11:58:15 PM »
Thanks for the reminder about the DVD color timing, MB. But.. were those nighttime scenes, or daytime (during Barnabas' cure)? If the latter, it seems like darkening them would make them perhaps look even more like PM sunlight instead of AM sunlight, thus really screaming out "west coast". But if it's nighttime, then I can imagine moonlight with the correct color timing. (It's been way too long since I've watched the series!)
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #36 on: January 24, 2020, 10:35:10 PM »
Today's caption is a scream. I'm imagining Julia wearing a leather bomber jacket, the dark glasses and carrying a large Uzi... her next line is "Make... my .... DAY!"

I can definitely see why this publishing company folded.

G.
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #37 on: January 25, 2020, 03:38:46 PM »
Quote from: Gothick on January 24, 2020, 10:35:10 PM
Today's caption is a scream. I'm imagining Julia wearing a leather bomber jacket, the dark glasses and carrying a large Uzi... her next line is "Make... my .... DAY!"

I hope you won't be too disappointed when she shows up in the slideshow tomorrow and she's not wearing any of that or saying anything like that.  [snow_wink]  Although, Julia's eventual conversation with Barnabas on the beach is odd to say the least. But more on that once we get to it...
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #38 on: January 26, 2020, 03:12:04 PM »
Here's the eighth page -


(Click here for a 1328X1996 version)

Note another rare page where all the panels and all the dialogue appeared in the slideshow...
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #39 on: January 26, 2020, 08:02:04 PM »
SG #65 from July 1993 shared a version of Page 8 -


- minus the dialogue bubbles...
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #40 on: January 27, 2020, 02:25:54 AM »
When I first read today's quote in Book 3, Issue 1 -


Book Three/Issue One/Page 9 - Barnabas: 'I THINK THE
BEACH MAY BE GETTING EVEN CHILLIER, DOCTOR. PERHAPS
IT IS TIME WE WENT IN.'

- I immediately thought of the scene in original series Ep #345 in which Barnabas, Julia and Vicki are up on Widows' Hill and he uses how cold it's gotten as an excuse to get Julia to leave because he's supposedly so concerned for her health. Too funny.

(Though what's even funnier is when the show revisits that excuse to get rid of Julia in Vicki's dream in Ep #346 so Barnabas can be alone with Vicki and he tells Julia she should leave Josette's room because the room is too chilly.  [lghy])
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #41 on: January 28, 2020, 05:10:01 PM »
It wasn't until I saw today's scan on the actual forum that the way the drawing is cropped and how the dialogue has been removed from the dialogue bubbles makes those bubbles -


 - look like Julia and Barnabas have built a snowman with a cowlick.  [snow_cheesy]
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #42 on: January 30, 2020, 08:38:16 PM »
Just in case anyone has no clue what today's scan depicts -


- it's Barnabas and Julia in the snowstorm and outside the entrance to the Old House. Tomorrow's scan might give a better idea of that, but not by much. The uncropped image leaves no doubt where they are, but it's too big to be used in the slideshow.

Of course, one does have to ask oneself why there's such a big snowstorm in the comic when where Book 3 is supposedly placed within the '91 Series the trees are filled with green leaves, the grass is fully green, and there are flowers in bloom? Obviously, the season is well into spring on the actual show. Now, can there be snowstorms in New England in the latter part of spring? Technically, yes. But they're extremely few and far between as to be well beyond expectation. And certainly nothing like what's being depicted in Book 3. The comic is going way beyond compensating for no snow on the show!

But as bizarre as it is to see such a snowstorm at this point in time, just wait until you see how the conversation between Barnabas and Julia plays out...
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #43 on: February 03, 2020, 06:38:04 PM »
So, has anyone realized what's so very wrong when it comes to the exchange between Barnabas and Julia:


Book Three/Issue One/Page 9 - Barnabas: 'I AM IN NO
PAIN, DOCTOR. I KNOW MY LIMITS. SINCE THE DAY THAT
DAMNABLE PROFESSOR WOODARD FORCED ME TO EXPOSE
MYSELF TO THE SUN, I HAVE BEEN GETTING STRONGER
AND STRONGER.'


Book Three/Issue One/Page 9 - Julia: 'MICHAEL WOODARD
WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP THE SHERIFF WITH HIS
INVESTIGATION. DAPHNE COLLINS' DEATH IS OFFICIALLY
STILL AN UNSOLVED MURDER.'


Book Three/Issue One/Page 9 - Barnabas: 'OH, IS THAT SO?
PERHAPS YOU CAN TELL ME WHY IT WAS THEN THAT HE
WAITED NEARLY TWO MONTHS BEFORE ACCUSING ME? NO,
JULIA, THE MAN HAS A PERSONAL VENDETTA AGAINST ME.
I CAN FEEL HIS HATRED.'


Book Three/Issue One/Page 9 - Julia: 'DON'T WORRY
ABOUT MICHAEL. I CAN HANDLE HIM. HE'LL BELIEVE
WHATEVER I TELL HIM ABOUT DAPHNE OR ABOUT YOU.'


Book Three/Issue One/Page 9 - Barnabas: 'THEN SEE TO IT,
JULIA. I WANT WOODARD OUT OF MY LIFE. SOON AND
FOR GOOD.'
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Re: Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3
« Reply #44 on: February 04, 2020, 05:52:26 AM »
Granted I haven't been paying much attention to any of this, I somehow thought these were set during the period of time after Woodward's death and "transformation" at the hands of Barnabas, and subsequent destruction.

Terrible dialogue, awful art.

G.
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