Zack Golem,

Thanks for that review.  I guess it gives me a good sense of the audience that is buying the reprints.  Since the books sell for fifty bucks a pop, they're clearly a very dedicated audience.

I do know of Jeff Thompson's work--think I'll skip it.

Interesting about Constance Collins.  There was a character with that name on the series, but she lived in the seventeenth century and was only seen in one flashback episode, portrayed by Grayson Hall.

Oddly, I can sort of half remember that weird drawing of Barnabas looking at Quentin's jet streaking across the sky through the window of his basement cell.

I do like your comment that the "relationship" between Barnabas and Willie was deemed "too complicated" for kids to comprehend.  Of course, the kids who watched the series regularly knew all about Barnabas and Willie... and we were all very innocent back then...

G.

Really?  I thought only diehard collectors of DS memorabilia would buy the reprints.  Interesting... what can one say except that tastes differ. 

I bought loads of them back in the day, and actually looked forward to them in the early months.  So my 13 year old self enjoyed them.  At some point, however, I had had enough.  Revisiting them as an adult was not a happy experience.

I agree with you about Aaron's attempt to draw Angelique in the new book, and I'm not all that happy with how he draws Julia in general. There's one square or panel or whatever you call it that is decent but it's obviously copied from a well-known hoDS film still.  I'm not convinced that he used photographs for all of it... his renderings of Barnabas are pretty free and easy, I think.

But then I'm not a professional artist, so ... not sure how much my opinion about any of it matters!

cheers, G.

Love the leopard-print slingback pumps on Green!  The perfect accent for that gown.  The lipstick is just way too loud for me, although it may be the fault of the photog dialling the color up too high.

G.

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.