Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 3

[Mysterious Benefactor]

What a gawd awful drawing of Barbara Steele.

If you're referring to that last panel, I agree - though I think the second panel isn't bad...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

And here's the twenty-first page earlier than I would normally post it. (Does that make up for the lateness of Page 20?  ) And the reason I need to post it early will become obvious later tonight...

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And here's another page where all the dialogue and all the panels made it into the slideshow...

And speaking of that dialogue, does it seem like dialogue that would have taken place between Barnabas and Julia "right before the 1790 flashback, around the time of Episodes 6 and 7." No, of course it doesn't! At that point in the '91 Series Julia's treatment of Barnabas had already blown up and ended with Barnabas aging and attacking Carolyn and with Barnabas and Julia at odds with one another.

However, as much as I've railed about how Book 3's storyline, at least in Issue 1, makes no sense with the timeline David Campiti said it would take place in and that it fit in more appropriately with a similar timeline to Books 1 and 2, I think I may have figured out why that is. It has something to do with the theory I teased in reply #114. But as I said in that post, I prefer to go into it after I've posted Page 24...

One thing that is interesting about Barnabas and Julia's discussion here, though, is that it sets the stage for what would seem to have been the intended theme for Book 3's storyline and for how this particular issue ends...

[patrickm]

I was referring to the drawing in the middle of page 20. She looks more like she is going out to blow up a bridge or something. And what's with the drawing of Barnabas  in the top right corner of page 21. Seriously? He looks more like Robert  DeNiro as a young Vito Corleone in Godfather 2. This guy should have had his artist license revoked. When the art is this bad, I can't follow the storyline...period.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

And the reason I need to post it early will become obvious later tonight...

And here's the dialogue-free twenty-second page:

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And just in case you don't recall who these characters are (we haven't seen them since Page 2) they're Robin's (the young girl ghost) parents...

[patrickm]

Now his drawing of Sarah on page 23 looks like Joan Crawford in a snowstorm. Wow.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Though when you find out where they are, it's sort of effective. At least none of us have been there (at least I wouldn't assume so) so we don't know what it might actually look like, if it actually does exist...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

And here's the twenty-third page:

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Note the dialogue free panels...

[Gothick]

LOL. Yes, Sarah looks very Mommie Dearest there. "Tina! Bring me the ax!"

G.

[patrickm]

Thanks G,... that gave me a laugh on a really grim news day.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(I haven't had the news on yet today, but with you living in Florida, patrick, I can just imagine what might be happening...)

What a shame all of Felipe Echevarria's art work has been posted from this issue - nothing new for anyone to look forward to making fun of. 

[patrickm]

Hey MB, TY for your concern. South Florida seems to be getting it the worst. Here in central Florida, we are getting along ok. We had a club meeting planned for April 25 but that obviously had to be postponed indefinitely. I sent an email blast to like 30 club members but other than an economic hit to several (including me) and a couple of unrelated surgeries, nobody has gotten sick from the virus. I was thinking more of NYC and now La and Ga. It seems to be spiralling out of hand in certain places. As far as you having posted all of his artwork, I still think you should create a separate Caption This board just for him. That really would be "comic" relief. LOL.

[Gothick]

I see Sarah the New Age Guru is back in today's installment. Perhaps she went to work for Dionne Warwick's Psychic Friends after the book folded.

Patrick, hope you and your friends can stay safe, healthy and solvent. Grim times indeed.

All the best, Gothick

[patrickm]

I see Sarah the New Age Guru is back in today's installment. Perhaps she went to work for Dionne Warwick's Psychic Friends after the book folded.

 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

And here's the twenty-fourth page:

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I'll post my theory at a later time when I have more time. (I'm still working on aspects of the new slideshow - and once you figure out the theme or I reveal what it is, you won't be at all surprised that I'm still working on it .    But I'm having fun, and that's all that counts.  And once the theme is revealed, I have a feeling you'll be for not immediately figuring it out upon seeing just today's first entry...)

What I will say now, though, is that I strongly suspect that Sarah the New Age Guru, or at least what she's saying, would have turned out to be very important to Book 3...

[patrickm]

Let me take a guess. Sarah was only posing as a London Bridges singer reject from Kids Got Talent. She was in fact a paranormal private investigator like a ghostly Mannix solving murders and bringing closure from the great beyond.