I finally got hold of a copy of Diary of a Mad Housewife but haven't had time to watch it.  I remember you said Sturdivant appears in a party sequence in that film.

G.

Yeah, the film trailers section just goes on and on on that set!  I'll have to go back and re-watch that NoDS trailer now.

G.

Wish I could have been there, but I did not even see the announcement until late Sunday evening, and I have to confess the embarrassing fact that I don't even know which end of the state Fairhaven is--on the coast, presumably, but we got a LOTTA coastline here.

Did anyone yell "Vile Vitch!" at you?  I agree with MB that I think your show does not deserved to be shoehorned into the "family entertainment" slot although if it means you get to make money, who am I to say ye nay?

familial hugs,

Cousin Gothick

michael--you should be grateful that most of the personnel of the series were absent from the Gold Key comics... given that Certa's attempts to render Quentin, Julia, Stokes et al. resulted in some really unspeakable caricatures... Quentin always looked like a bad cross between pop star Engelbert Humperdinck (who I believe hailed from Tasmania) and the WB's Tasmanian devil... sigh.

I have just read issue 1 of the Dynamite DS comic--excellent work over all!  Given Liz's terse reference to David's "pyromania," I would guess that a certain former Mrs Roger Collins may be lurking in the shadows, or should I say, the embers...

I don't see the Julia or Carolyn episodes as references to the 1991 series, personally, but I did catch two visual references that may possibly be a nod at Depp Shadows--[spoiler] in the scene of Carolyn driving out of the estate, the gateway her car drives through looks *a lot* like the gateway for Collinwood created for the new movie (we never saw the Collinwood gate in the original series)--and when Barn vamps out on Julia, not only does he bare his fangs, but he sprouts Fu Manchu fingernails, too, just as Depp does in the new feature[/spoiler]

Of course, the inclusion of these images could be coincidental, but given the delay in the book's production, the artist may well have seen these photos--or may even have been shown material from Depp Shadows before some of it was made public...

I don't see these references as attempts to somehow incorporate this story into the canon of Depp Shadows--which, by the accepted standard definition of canon, will have ITS OWN canon, not somehow an extension of the canon of the original series (which is CLOSED).  These books, the Dynamite series, will also establish their own canon for the story of Collins family, the curses they suffer, Barnabas et al.

G.

michael--Angelique (and briefly, Cassandra--I think only in issue 1) was also featured in the Gold Key comics.  Or rather, some garish shrieking thing that was called Angelique because Joe Certa couldn't draw real people to save his soul...

I got the issue too yesterday but haven't read it yet.  I have been sidetracked by Gary Rhodes' brilliant analysis of the original 1931 Bela Lugosi Dracula film in the new issue of Monsters from the Vaults which I also purchased, and issue 4 of Alan Moore's fascinating Dodgem Logic project.

My local comic book store is also very busy.  And what you wrote makes me jump on my current hobby horse/bete noire--supposedly print is going the way of the dinosaur, but every bookstore and mag shop I visit is always PACKED.  I think in this age of nonstop inescapable glowing screens, people are craving print more than ever.  Granted, I live in Mass which has a very high literacy and habit-of-reading rate.  Interesting discussion here but of course way off topic for DS.

I do look forward to reading the comic.

G.

If I remember correctly, there is a secret passage in a mausoleum in The Black Cat 1941.  Talk about a DS touch!

G.

I looked up Night Monster on IMDB--it sounds like a hoot, and the sort of thing that would be interesting to see as a precursor to DS (which owed a lot to 1940s Universal horror films, especially House of Frankenstein/Dracula, Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, etc.).

I used to have a friend who would intersperse stray snippets of dialogue from Bela Lugosi and Bette Davis in phone conversations.  The guy was a real riot.  

cheers, Gothick

These sound very cool! I think the only one I have ever seen is The Black Cat, the 1940s one in which Lugosi was a butler and Gale Sondergaard a housekeeper, right?

I must look up Night Monster!  I vaguely recall seeing stills from it in Famous Monsters long ago.

Happy belated Halloween!

G.