The Dressing Room Part 1 - Jim Wilkins

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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!

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We're fast approaching the 100th strip. Well the 247th strip if you take into account the Infinites, Prop Cupboard, Who's Cat, Guest Prints, the extras and of course the Christmas Specials. But it's the 100th main strip, the strip that started the whole ball going. I read once, somewhere, that the average length of a web comic is somewhere around the 30 strips mark, because that's when the creator exhausts his ideas and enthusiasm for the project. So it's with more than a little bit of pride (mostly in the rest of the team, especially Jim) that we seem to just keep going and have only ever missed one Saturday. Although to be fair it was over Christmas...

Today's strip serves to highlight the range of characters we've had on here as well as point out how much of a continuity we've built up. And Jim's chosen to homage Lee Sullivan's 'The Usual Suspects' to highlight our rogues gallery. That made me smile.

I should really try and write the 101st strip before I get cocky though.

I really, really enjoyed 'The Zygon Invasion', it was nice and dark and once again the two part structure allowed for the tension to be cranked up significantly.

I won't be at the Glasgow Doctor Who Society this week due to prior commitments, but you should still go along anyway. They've just posted a video of various members (including myself) talking about 'The Woman who lived'.

See you all next week.

IN PRINT - RETRO COVERS #2

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Right, one last interlude then back to normal. Jim has the next few weeks of strips in his Inbox and Nesshead has some coming to him in the next day or so.

I'm getting back into the swing of writing and I have the arc for the year sorted out in my head, just need to get it down onto paper.

In the meantime Jim has put together a cover for Paradox now, our Special from last year. It really makes me wish we had some of these printed, something we need to work towards I think.

I've been making progress in most of my writing projects and am starting to get excited about them again. I'll be sharing more about them as they progress.

I'm going to go now as my laptop is starting to get a little temperamental.

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Anyone who checks Paul Hanley's dA page on a regular basis will know exactly who this larger than life character is. Although truth be told he wasn't part of the initial script for 'Paradox Now'. We'd just finished putting together our designs for the Others (with lots of help from Sasha Lipinsky) with Paul published his version of the Other, with design input from Lance Parkin no less. So I went cap in hand to ask Paul if we could use his version in the strip. Luckily Paul gracefully agreed and so we have today's very special guest star.

Paul is a big fan of alternate Doctors, like myself, as can be seen from his latest artwork. How many of them can  you name? I had to look up two...

Next week we have the finale to 'Paradox Now' and then we're going to run the last of Nesshead's 'Grand Tour'. Providing of course that he's recovered from Gallifrey One by that point of course, he seems to have had a lot of fun. How many of you saw him?

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See you all next week.

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What sad timing.

We lost Christopher Barry recently, one of the Founding Fathers of Who. Even a quick scan of his resume tells you need to know; 'The Daleks', 'The Daemons' and my personal favourite 'The Brain of Morbius'.

In fact 'The Brain of Morbius' is what makes today's strip so sad in terms of timing, apart from directing it Mr Barry also made a brief appearance of 'The Morbius Doctors'. For those of you that don't know these Doctors appeared during the Mind Bending sequence and were originally inteneded to represent the first eight (and unseen) Doctors, making William Hartnell the 9th Doctor. It didn't take however and by the time of 'The Five Doctors' Hartnell was back to being the original. An unsuccessful attempt was made to bring in some big acting names to play the first eight Doctors, but in the end eight members of the Production team stood in instead, Mr Barry included.



So that's who the faces belong to. Their clothing comes from different Gallifreyan eras and we owe a massive thank you to Sasha Lipinsky for photoshopping the faces onto the costumes to give Jim and Nesshead a good photo reference to draw them.

The Other is a character from the 'New Adventures' who may or may not be a previous incarnation of the Doctor. The reveal of this character lead to the assumption by many fans that the eight faces belonged to him.

We'll see more of them next week.

In other news Nesshead is currently wondering around Gallifrey One! If you see him feel free to go up and say hello, he's mostly tame these days.

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Surprise!

Turns out that last strip wasn't our last of 'Paradox Now' for this year. Jim wanted you guys to wonder who that bearded guy is over the course of the guest strips. Those of you that know your Whovian history or have read the right books should be able to work out who he is. Feel free to speculate in the comments section or on our Facebook and Twitter pages.

There's three more strips left of this arc once the strip returns, hope you guys are looking forward to seeing how we finish this arc up.

So, 'Time of the Doctor'. I rather enjoyed it. My biggest problem with it was it tried to fit too many ideas into it's running time. I suspect that if the last part of Series 7 had been more arc based rather than standalone episodes then it might have felt a little less cramped.






Having watched various online fan conversations I find it amusing to note that the same people that complained about the the arc being too complicated then complained about the 7b stories being too standalone and are now complaining that the last episode was too rushed. You're never going to keep everybody happy. Steven Moffat still has my interest and support for what's to come and I can't wait to see what he's going to bring us with Peter Capaldi.

Speaking of whom, I quite enjoyed his entrance. Kidneys aside it an exercise in Scottish sarcasm and bluntness and bodes well for the coming series. As a Scotsman I thought "We're probably crashing" was the best response I've ever heard the Doctor give a companion and the mad eyes he gave Clara right after his regeneration give me shivers.

I'm sorry to see Matt Smith go, but I'm also very, very excited for the future.

We're back again in a few days with a Saturday strip. In the mean time have a very happy New Year.

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I was going to discuss the TV Christmas Special, but since I'm not utterly convinced you've all seen it yet and I'm pressed for time this morning I'm going to leave it for just now.

Instead I'm going to encourage you to try and guess what the last surviving member of our regular cast just jumped into. It shouldn't be hard to guess to be fair. Although descriptions of it were really hard to track down I think Jim's done a great job of bringing it to visual life.

Speaking of Jim, he's taken on himself to try and get one last strip to you before the end of the year. So, keep your eyes open and you might just see another strip on New Year's Eve. Whatever happens you'll still see the debut of mine and Jesse Lax's holiday arc. I'm excited about bringing this to you as it begins setting up In Print for the coming year.

So, did you guys miss us having a Christmas Special this year? \We'd love to know as it may (or may not) influence our decision about what to do next year. And speaking of next year we're looking at a slight change of format. Rather than have Jim and Nesshead alternating on a weekly basis (with 2ndFade's Prop Cupboard turning up here and there) we were contemplating doing complete arc runs at a time. How would you guys feel about getting 4-6 strips at a time from the same team? Your opinions really do matter to us.

In other news I have something pretty big in the pipeline and I'm hoping to be able to bring you news of it early in 2014 although if you follow our Facebook and Twitter pages you might already have worked it out from some posts I've made there in the last few months.

Anyway, hope you all had a Merry Christmas (where applicable) and are chilling as I type this. See you all in either a few days or next week.

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For everyone who ever wondered what happened to the real Paul McGann and Sylvester McCoy from last year's Christmas Special; well here's the answer.

Did any of you see it coming?

I have a vague plan of where this strip is going, but sometimes plot points come at you out of no-where, like when we saw this version of the Eye of Harmony room (or Cloister room if you prefer) and it just fitted in perfectly with Grandfather Paradox hijacking the Eye of Harmony.

There's 5 more strips to go before this arc ends and I promised Jim and Nesshead time off over Christmas, so I have a guest arc and artist lined up for a 5 week block. Jesse Lax and myself have been preparing a 5 part arc that we really hope you'll enjoy. We've certainly had fun putting it together.

All things being even though we should be here next week with part 6 of the Grand Tour and from there we'll be making it up through to 2014.

See you guys then.

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So that's what happens, you get five versions of the same Time Lord regenerating at once.

Right, be honest; who was expecting that?

Jim really knocked that one out of the park didn't he? So, yeah, everything just changed in the In Print Verse. We've lost two of our cast and those that are still around have post regenerational trauma and a new wardrobe to deal with. At least they will have once they deal with the Grandfather.

Presuming they do deal with the Grandfather that is...

Right, I'm booked to see 'The Day of the Doctor' at 9.30pm UK time, presuming my wee girl is doing ok. Jim's going at the same time, but to a different showing (a shame really). Anyone trying to discuss the Special with us before we've finished seeing it will be ignored. Sorry guys, I've gone this long without spoilers...

See you on the other side!

Episode 57 Paradox Now Part 1
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                        Episode 59 Paradox Now Part 3
                        Episode 60 Paradox Now Part 4
                        Episode 61 Paradox Now Part 5

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Nope, it's not good. Not good at all.

I've just shoe horned in a Star Trek joke. Oh well.

"A chronologically advanced and evil version of Movie boy." I'd forgotten I'd gone for that description. That works a lot better than my attempt at describing the Grandfather yesterday. 

So, one of our Doctors is no more. What do you think happens when part of the Doctor's hard drive gets wiped? I mean apart from Matt Smith rolling on the floor in pain that is.

You'll get to find out tomorrow. I'm sure it'll be the highlight of your day.

Can't imagine there's anything else happening...



Paradox Now Part 1

Paradox Now Part 2

Paradox Now Part 3

Paradox Now Part 4

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What can I say; TNG was big back in the 90s and up until last week that was the best place to find 8.

It's not Captain Picard of course, it is in fact Grandfather Paradox. If I haven't mentioned before he's a slightly future and pretty evil version of 8. We've tweaked him a bit for the purpose of the strip. We've crossed the facial features of 8 and 9, mainly because the description of him in the books is a little like 9. The clothes are also a mix of the two Doctors and as luck would have it is a pretty close echo to the War Doctor. Our re-design pre-dated the reveal of the War Doctor costume by the way...

Anyway, I need to skip ahead 24 hours. As you may have noticed this strip has appeared on Thursday, this is because we're going daily from here through to the day after the 50th Special. So we'll see you back here tomorrow with the next part of Paradox Now.
Well I'll see you in a few moments, but you get my drift...

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So there we have it; this arc is called 'Paradox Rising'. I was going to talk more about the arc but quite frankly my mouth is hurting so bad that all I want to do is crawl into a quiet corner and sob.

Sorry. See you all next week.

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