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2016 - It's certainly been an interesting year to say the least. Jim here... I haven't blogged in a while. Mike's delighted us with Who's Cat for the last few months which has been an absolute hoot to read as many of you have found due to our phenomenal figures for the website have shown! It's been a godsend while I've been on maternal duties with the birth of my daughter Charlotte earlier this year and being a stay-at-home Dad looking after my two other young boys - Mylo and Alfie.. BUT I'm back drawing a new 3 part adventure for over the holiday period starting today featuring our usual crew and more from our InPrint-Verse. And from all the In Print team we'd like to wish you all a very merry Christmas!

IN PRINT GUEST PRINT - Cyber Paul

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A guest strip from Paul Salvi today. Long time readers will recognise Paul as a regular guest artist over the years, in fact he did the very first Guest Print. He's done a few others as well and was kind enough to do today's strip on very short notice. When I first encountered Paul he was drawing a comic called Living with Insanity and went on to draw The Line after his stint on that was finished. He's also contributed to the now wrapped up Gutters. Sadly he's not been drawing much recently (which makes me extra grateful for today's strip), hopefully he finds time and motivation to get back to a regular strip soon. Hell, I know I've got an idea for a multiple Master strip that needs an artist....

Oh and anyone wondering why the Special Weapons Dalek is referred to as Derek should read this.

Ness is back with the Infinites week, see you all then.

IN PRINT EPISODE 50

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So, here it is. Our 50th strip.

Kind of.

It's certainly the 50th main strip. But In Print has expanded well beyond my initial plans for it. It started slowly, Jim did a couple of Extras here and there. Then he did a whole multi page Christmas Special. Twice. We had a couple of Guest Prints here and there. One of which evolved into our semi regular Prop Cupboard of Obscure Doom. Jesse came on board for The Infinity Doctors which has become our regular Infinites feature.

What I'm getting at is that this is our 50th strip and our 117th.

So we've marked the occasion. I just love the special one off strip that we've done for this. Jim has taken my initial idea and really run with it. I've been teasing you guys for months that it'd make a good Tshirt. Was I right? Well it's up in our store now. You tell me.

That's about it for me for just now. Just a quick reminder that we're on Twitter and that we're having a poll about your favourite Unbound Doctor on our Facebook page.

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Everyone still here? Fantastic.

When 2nd Fade Emailed and said he had an idea for one of my scripts that would only work as an web comic he had me curious. He was right though, wasn't he? 

We've seen the Watcher before of course, I wonder if we're building to something?

I love the Watcher, he's one of the biggest mysteries of the show's run, yet so many people don't know him. A slightly future Doctor that helped the 4th Doctor regenerate is a pretty timey wimey concept and would sit perfectly in amongst the Moffat directed time twisting. I doubt he'll be back for the 50th, but the Prop Cupboard seems to have a pretty good track record of using monsters that are about to get used in New Who.

Speaking of New Who, I've really been enjoying the last few episodes. I mean it wasn't a strong opening couple of episodes, but they've really warmed up and I especially enjoyed seeing the return of the Ice Warriors and David Warner, I really enjoyed his portrayal of the Doctor in the Unbound series. In fact between him, Richard E Grant, Derek Jacobi, Mark Gatiss and Arabella Weir a few Christmas' back there's been quite a few of alternate Doctors being used, albeit in non-Doctorish roles.

Personally I'm hoping for a Rowan Atkinson guest role at some point.

Anyway, next week we have a Jim Wilkins strip. It might be the regular strip or it might be an Extra that I've come up with given Who news in the last week or so. The week after that sees the return of Ness and the Infinites (there's a TV show there!), but don't fear the Prop Cupboard will return. It's kind of like James Bond that way, but with more Ice Warriors.

Our numbers have been pretty spectacular the last month and we here at In Print would like to thank each and every single one of you that helped us get quarter of a million views in the last year.

It's all pretty humbling.

See you all next week and in the mean time you can find us on Facebook and Twitter.

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See this is what frustrates me about the companions since 2005; he travels throughout time and space, but only seems to collect girls from the early 21st century? In my opinion the most interesting companions in the last few years have been Jack and Rory. One's a Time Agent from the future and the other a recovered 2,000 year old Auton. To mind that's more in keeping with being a Time Lord's travelling companion. River has been interesting, but I'm not sure if I count her as a regular companion.

Given that the current companion has appeared in two other time periods before being revealed as being from the early 21st century I'm still holding out hopes that she might not be a walking cliché. We'll see I guess.

Hope you guys have been enjoying the Doctors watching the show again. Don't worry there's another arc coming, it might even cross over with The Infinites, we'll have to wait and see.

I got a text from Jim earlier this week all excited about pictures of John Hurt turning up on the internet. At first I thought he was just excited to see him appear, but he had a few observations about his outfit that tie into the strip. Mostly because it resembles the gentlemen to the right's outfit. Feel free to discuss his identity in the comments section.

We'll neither confirm nor deny....

Our Facebook and Twitter haven't been shut down yet, so go and sign up to them if you haven't already.

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And there's Frobisher. Just when you think we couldn't get any further outfield with our companion references. Just be thankful that I can't think of a joke with Fitz in it. I know Jim is. I have him drawing enough new characters as it is.

But you'll see the results for that in good time.

Frobisher, for those of you that don't know, was a companion of the 6th Doctor in the Comic Strips. He wasn't really a penguin, that was just the form he chose to adopt most, because who wouldn't want to be a penguin?

There's no new Infinites next week as Nesshead is busy with a display of Hanna Barbera Art. You can find out more here. You might even be able to pick up a Nesshead...

So next week and a fortnight later we'll be having some more Tales from the Prop Cupboard. We've had some from 2nd Fade waiting to appear for the last month or so. In fact one of them is a prelude to an upcoming mini crossover between the main strip and the Infinites.

Did everyone enjoy 'The Bells of St Johns'? I know I did, I especially enjoyed the surprise cameo from one of our own cast as The Great Intelligence. Nice touch.

Tonight's looks as if it might be distantly related to 'The Pyramids of Mars', which can only be a good thing in my opinion.

As always we're on Facebook and Twitter so head over and show your support by giving us a Like and a follow!

Until next time....

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I think assigning the words to me this week is a little misleading. I came up with the concept behind the strip and the contestants, more on that in a moment, but the actual lyrics this week were all picked by 2nd Fade and I'd be lying if I said I didn't have to look up any of them.

Well apart from the first one.

However they struck an instant chord (a ha!) with Jim, it would seem that he and 2nd Fade have pretty similar tastes in music. I'm a Springsteen man myself.

The contestants for today's strip were pretty easy. I've been begging 2nd to use William Hartnell's Wig and a Cactus dressed as Tom Baker since we first came up with the Prop Cupboard. It would have happened sooner, but 2nd was utterly convinced I was making up the existence of the wig. Anyway, eventually he found a picture that proved it existed and it finally made its way into the strip. I may have it in a duel to the death with Paul McGann's wig at some point just to mess with him.

I can be evil that way sometimes. Just ask Jim about the cast list for the Christmas Special....

I've been dying to use a Kroton for ages now and it's all Lawrence Miles' fault. He made them cool again. If you don't believe me then pick up a copy of Alien Bodies.

Although there's no music assigned to the Ice Warrior DJs Jim has decided they're playing Vanilla Ice's riff on Under Pressure. I can't bring myself to utter it's name.

Anyway, we're careening towards the end of the current arc next week and we should wrap up in nice time to run the Christmas Special.

Our following on Twitter and Facebook, is growing. We all really appreciate every single one of you that follows or likes us. It means an awful lot. We even appreciate those of you that just read the strip, although we'd be happier if you liked us as well.

Maybe I'll discuss the Angels next week...

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Here we go; it's the second Prop Cupboard of Obscure Doom as drawn by 2nd Fade.

And as luck would have it there's a reference to 'Asylum of the Daleks', which I think may be the title of tonight's Doctor Who.

I think...

So, new Who tonight! I can't wait, even if it is only for a few weeks. To celebrate Jim seems to have drawn more Daleks. Not that Jim ever needs an excuse to draw more Daleks. They're part of, as yet, unrevealed project.

Anyway, I'm off now as there is much celebrating in my house today and not just because of New Who.

See you all next week.

As usual keep an eye on our Twitter and Facebook feeds and we'll see you all again next week.

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We've been itching to show this strip off for a while now and with Jesse being on holiday it presented the perfect opportunity.

The Prop Cupboard of Obscure Doom is a new spin off strip for In Print. It would seem that when 2nd Fade did us a guest strip a few months back he caught the comic bug again and was interested in doing more guest strips for us. Myself and Jim were such fans of his work that we started discussing bringing Mr Fade (that may not be his real name) on as a regular contributor.

So, we through ideas back and forward and eventually came up with The Prop Cupboard of Obscure Doom. After all the old monsters from Classic Who have to be hiding somewhere and the notion that the monsters that hadn't been in New Who yet would be gathered there and less than happy about some of the creatures that had managed to get an outing.

The Macra for example.

So, expect to see more from the Cupboard as time marches on. Next week sees Jim return with the regular strip and the week after the Infinity Doctors return their tale.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, work continues on the Christmas Special for this year. Which reminds me if any of you can draw in a style which wouldn't be out of place in a DWM comic strip then we'd like to hear from you.

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