I'm not a big fan of comics, or of Anne Rice, but the hubby and I bought all the Anne Rice comic books when they first came out, and still have them. They are one big reason why I just could not stand the Jossverse comics. Look at both sets of comic art and there's just no comparison. Most of the S8 comic art sucks donkey balls. And don't even get me started on the plot lines that make the "Lost" writers look like they had a coherent story arc well-planned out from the beginning...

Although it must be said, Innovations comics (who made the Anne Rice comics) did very high quality comics, so much so that when they experienced their first slump in sales they went bankrupt very quickly. But even if Dark Horse didn't want to spend as much on very expensive printing processes, it wouldn't have killed them to hire some better artists. Not that they were all bad, but Dark Horse seems to re-hire the worst artists and let go the good ones. Go figure.