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And that's it for this arc. Seriously this time. I've checked with Jim and everything.

The two 10s are looking as if they're going to be quite the visual double act. I can see them cropping up in the back of panels even when I've not asked for them to appear. Luckily I trust Jim's visual judgement on these things. Speaking of which; as much as I would like to take credit for 'The Doors' joke at the end that one was 100% Jim. Kind of wish I'd thought of it though.

Back to the Infinites next week and you guys are in a for a treat. I can't say anymore than that, but just wait....

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Yes that was my little swipe at people that thought the War Doctor was perhaps the Master or the Valeyard despite having 'as the Doctor' in big flaming letters right next to him the very first time he appeared.

I love the Valeyard, you might have noticed, but I really do get tired of all the 'It's the Valeyard!' yelling each time someone vaguely resembling him or an aspect of him appears. The only exception being the Dream Lord, I mean just look at the direction of 'Amy's Choice' compared to 'The Ultimate Foe'. Not only have the same root (darkest part of the Doctor type stuff), but the teleportation plot device they both use are directed identically!

Anyway, safe to say this new 10 is not the Valeyard, he's just what he appears to be, an earlier form of 10.

Jim was saying to me the other day how chuffed he was that we had enough strips that we could do flashbacks. For my part I was ecstatic to finally address the 8 to 9 regeneration we did in one of early strips. It's been annoying me ever since 'Day of the Doctor'.

In other news I've started back with Loose Canons, a conversation about self publishing with a friend of mine has given me the much needed kick I was needing, More on that in the coming weeks...

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The other three of him last turned up here and the Other guy was introduced here.

I still want to see the Others put onto a print or a Tshirt. What do you guys think?


 The next few arcs of the main strip and the Infinites are slightly connected, so Nesshead's ones need to run before Jim's ones. The thing is I can't remember if I typed up the last set for Jim. And if I haven't I'm not entirely sure where I left the hand written copies.

All will be well.

I'm sure.

Reasonably....

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And there we have it. For those of you that hadn't cottoned on yet there are now two versions of ten floating about the Print Verse. He really should have been here years ago. It was my son that pointed it out to me, he has a fairly firm grasp of numbers for his age and has been studying the Doctor's regenerations intently thanks to having 'Legacy' on his tablet. Once I explained to him about the War Doctor and the Metacrisis regeneration he's since insisted on calling the War Doctor Nine instead and Ten has become Eleven and Twelve. And he knew it was true because my 'Infinite Doctor' print has both versions on Ten in it. It was only really a matter of time before he asked how many Tens were in In Print and once he did....

Yeah, so this arc may have been kick started by a conversation at the Glasgow DW Society, but it's been my son's refusal to let go of a concept that's kept it rolling.

In other news I got to read a advanced copy of Battlefield thanks to The Doctor Who Companion. What did I think of it? Well you can read the answer here. Knowing me and alternate Doctors you can probably guess....

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I'm currently typing this on my phone whilst at one of my kids' climbing clubs. I had planned to type this last night, but I've cracked some of my ribs and it's slowed me down slightly.

In case you're wondering where Jack came from he's been running since the end of the I-files - I Files Part 3

I'll see you all next week.

Read the whole I Files story here - The I Files

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Everyone's a critic!

Five years ago today Jim and I were nervously watching the stats back on the DWRS website to see if anyone was reading the first ever In Print strip. Thankfully people were enjoying the strip and five years, 102 strips, umpteen specials and some additions to the team later we're still going.

There's been the odd bump along the way. Babies, illness, divorce and life will have that effect, but through it all we've kept going and there's no reason to think I won't be copying this entry five years from now to use in our 10th anniversary!

In other news I'm sure you've all heard that the new Companion is being announced today in the middle of something called a Fut baal mitch. I'm sure I'll find out through Facebook afterwards...

IN PRINT - 'NOT' HUMAN NATURE Part 2

 

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 'Human Nature' does raise a number of issues regarding continuity and just how the NAs fit into the overall continuity.

I'm not even going to try and address them, that's a minefield I'm not prepared to on a Saturday morning. All I'll say is that my own, personal, take on it is that the events of the novel got wiped out during the Time War and history hates a vacuum.


The initial script had the last panel set in Mr Cornell's office. Jim decided to put him at a signing at my local Waterstone's either because he likes subtle nods or because he's not stalkery enough to know what Mr Cornell's office looks like. Incidently 'Love and War' has been out on CD for a while. The fact the poster is still up either suggests particular things about just when this strip is set and how much time has past since the Christmas before last when we were last here or that the Glasgow staff are really bad at changing displays. I know the answer of course, but I'd never say anything unkind about people who have their own Dalek.


Right, I need to get moving as I'm actually meant to be in Glasgow in about an hour and a half. See you all next week.

IN PRINT - HUMAN NATURE Part 1

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 It doesn't happen often, Jim and myself have been putting In Print out for four years now (as of this week) and we've rarely argued about anything to do with the strip. Sure there's been times when we've disagreed about certain elements, but we've always managed to discuss things in a civilized and friendly way and devise a solution that keeps everyone happy. In fact sometimes I forget that Jim and I have never actually met, we've not even talked on the phone. Our entire working and personal relationship is carried out through Email and text messages. Something we really should correct at some point since I've come to regard him as a good friend as well as a colleague.

But I digress. I usually do.

This week was different though. As I mentioned last week the name of this arc has been giving me trouble. Turns out it's been bothering Jim as well since he texted me yesterday with a bunch of suggestions and I replied with some of own. Things weren't heated, but we were definitely at a stand off, we just couldn't agree on a title and then my phone died. By the time I'd got my kids to bed and got some charge back into the phone Jim had found a solution to our predicament that fitted the actual story arc quite well. Unfortunately he'd suggested it right as my phone died, so I was worried he'd think I was ignoring it. Didn't help that I sent another suggestion before Jim's solution was actually delivered. More about that next week, in the mean time the adjustment to the title arc today was Jim's suggestion.

Anyway, I love 'Human Nature', I like to view the televised version as a reprint of sorts of the book form. Both pack an emotional stomach punch that always makes me sad that we've not seen Paul Cornell in these parts since. I would love to see him writing for the 12th Doctor, Capaldi seems to have sprung straight from the NAs and I can think of few other writers better equipped to write him in that style.

Anyway, time for me to go. See you all next week.

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We've not had an 'Extra' for a while, so here's one that Jim had hiding on his hard drive. I'm actually finding the strip a bit eerie as myself and Tone had been discussing a similar joke for The Wrong Doctor. As it happens we opted not to use it in strip and Tone put his own spin on it to make a Tshirt, which you should all go buy, but like I said it's a little eerie seeing it turn up somewhere else.

I've finally finished writing the Christmas Special, much to Jim's relief. I was looking over the art so far when I realised we were at page 15 and still had a few pages to go. Maybe we should have had this printed, what do you guys think?

A few of the pages I've been sent it a little similar to the Target cover Jim's put up today. Partly because some of them are drawn by 2nd Fade and partly because... well I can't tell you why. Not just yet at any rate.

Anyway, as it stands you'll be seeing the entire story published live on the page on Christmas day! Or perhaps late Christmas Eve as both myself and Jim have families and our wife's may not be happy seeing us on our computers when we should be indulging in family activities.

Either way; it'll be available at Christmas. And like a certain other popular show we may have a few surprise guest stars; celebrity and Sontaran. Stay tuned.

For the record; we had our Sontaran booked long before anyone knew that one would be appearing in the BBC's Who entry for Christmas.

I'd love to say great minds think alike, but I suspect it was pure luck.

Right time for me to go, but before I do just enough time to remind you to check out our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

See you all next week.

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I've never got the big deal about Rose. I don't hate her, I just don't see her as the trail blazer that everyone else does.

"Finally a companion that can look after herself." Except Ace could do that. Come to think of it so could Romana and Sarah Jane.

"She's a match for the Doctor." Not nearly as much of a match as Liz Shaw.

But it was the complaints about the implied relationship between the two that annoyed me. "The Doctor wouldn't fall in love with a human."

Wouldn't he? Tell that to Sarah Jane, Grace, Emma or Romana. The Doctor has always been close to his companions and the line always had a tendency to be blurred with some of the female ones. None more so than Jo Grant as featured in today's comic.

To my mind Jo was the first time the Doctor fell head over heels for a human. Don't believe me? Then have a look at this clip of them saying goodbye and tell me the Doctor isn't broken hearted.

Yet despite this people still get upset about the Doctor and Grace in the TV Movie.

But we're all ignoring the really obvious question here; just how did the third Doctor smuggle Jo into the Matrix?

Anyway, this is the start of a new arc and there's only going to be more questions as time progresses.

Bad Wolf bay always reminds me of Jacopo Camagni. It was his rendition of it that first drew my attention to his work and got him involved with the DWRS. The bay always seems to bring the best out in artists, for example I never asked Jim to draw it. I just had the lines of dialogue coming from the television set.

I'm quite glad Jim went this way instead, sets the tone nicely doesn't it?


Now available to pre-order is The Comic Strip Companion by Paul Scoones. The book covers the years 1964 to 1979 and is a full guide to all the Doctor Who and Dalek comic strips that appeared in annuals and comics such as TV Century 21 and Countdown.
Paul has a been a friend of the strip almost from the start, but that's not why we're plugging his stuff. Ok, it's not the only reason we're plugging his stuff. The man knows his Who comics and this book is likely to provide quite an education on the subject. He's also agreed to write the introduction to the In Print book, but only if more people say they want it. Only a couple of folk have shown interest so far sadly.
Paul is an accredited expert on all things 'Who' and writes production information subtitles for the classic range of  Doctor Who DVD's as well as having writing published in Doctor Who Magazine. In fact the very same magazine has an interview with Paul this month - issue 449, in shops now.
The Comic Strip Companion is available to pre-order right now at  our In Print store here.

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IN PRINT EPISODE 28

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This strip brings us to the end of the first arc's epilogue.

It's strange how much Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead feels like an epilogue now itself. Knowing so much more about River makes her sacrifice a little more potent. But I digress.

A brand new arc starts the week after next and I'm quite excited about it. Now that we've established just who occupies our little strip it's time to start exploring the group dynamic between the different Doctors a bit more. There may even be hints of an overall plot.

Or maybe I'm just making this up as I go along.

As always keep an eye on our Facebook page, vote if you to see us in literal print and share us if you found us amusing.

Next Saturday should see the second part of The Infinity Doctors. Although it's a guest run it might just have ongoing ramifications for our Doctors. I'm very excited about how the world of In Print is coming together. A special thank you to all the artists that have been involved in bringing this world to life. Especially to Jim whose art anchors the strip and has been consistent in bringing the scripts into focus. We wouldn't have had the Christmas Special if Jim hadn't of insisted we had a story we could tell. It's good to get pushed every so often.

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This strip and the next one serve as an epilogue to our very first arc; Introductions.

So, continuity wise these are really strips 11.1 and 11.2. I put these later in the run as I was concerned we'd spent too much time sitting in the same place with 7 and 8 and as such might start to lose people's attention. That and Jim was dying to explore other parts of the TARDIS.

Speaking of Jim; he asked to plug the Facebook page. Go and like us if you like the strip.

I hadn't meant to leave it as long before coming back, but there you go. It worked out well though, because back at the Doctor Who Reprint Society Christopher Lomas is discussing Benny the Doctor's love for archaeologists.

See you all next week!

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