OH to be clear when I said I didn't think the comic BOOKS had good writing I did mean the Gold Key ones. I don't know the more recent ones (I should.)
I'll go look at your post in the DS thread in a bit--thanks for the heads up. This is the recent reprint (from Hermes Press who do a number of comic strip reprints, I have some of their Brenda Starr, but also a ton of DS stuff I see.) It is really great quality, with the Sundays in full colour, and came out in 2024. https://hermes-press.myshopify.com/en-ca/products/dark-shadows-the-complete-newspaper-strips-pre-order
I don't know much about the people doing the animated show at all, and I realize I was wrong (as is often true.) The showrunner for this animated version is NOT the showrunner of Discovery of Witches, but rather a writer on that show, Lisa Holdsworth (who is credited with three of the 25 episodes as script writer but since they had a writer's room, unlike many UK series, she probably contributed other stuff.) She also created last year's UK teen dance school drama Dreamers, which I know NOTHING about. So I can't judge--I was just mixed on Discovery of Witches. However, they did do some things right on that show, and certainly it was very much unafraid to be a very soap opera take on the supernatural (vampires and witches in fact) AND involved time travel plots, so maybe a good fit? I do think it's a good sign that the series is looking outside western animation for its writer (which may sound weird coming from a big animation fan like myself) and someone who is know for soapy, supernatural, drama, and not, say, comedy or superheroes.
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