IN PRINT - 'SOMETHING' NATURE Part 4

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He really, really has. A lot of ideas from the EDAs have been recycled into the new series, too many to go into just now. All you need to know for today is that the Doctor encountered his biodata in physical form once before, in 'Unnatural History' by Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum and that last panel is meant to represent 8 and 11 scanning it at the same time, but from different locations.

After over half a century of ideas I suppose old ideas are going to get recycled, the Daleks and Cybermen are prime examples, but ideas from the 91-05 books seem especially ripe for picking as a minority of fans have managed to read them for various reasons. Certainly Kate and Jonathan were tweaking with the Doctor's biodata long before Great Intelligence tried it in 'The Name of the Doctor'.

Right, time to go. There's going to be some more book references next week, this time in a panel that I'm thinking about ordering off of Jim as a print...

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That's a lot of 8th Doctors. Can you identify them all?

For a man that has only appeared twice on the telly Paul McGann's Doctor has had quite a significant mileage in terms of adventures and looks. Nesshead has drawn the most note worthy versions, plus one of my favourites, for this strip. Which begs the question; do all these versions exist within the Print Verse?

Perhaps, time will tell on that one.

We're coming to the end of the Grand Tour, there's only a handful left and once we're done we have a brand new arc drawn by Jim coming up. The fall of the 11th.

Wonder what that's about....

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And we're back on Tour. There's a bit of a change this time as we find the Great Intelligence setting up a regeneration we've already seen. Mel's outfit should have told some of you that this set just prior to 'Time and the Rani' and provides an alternative explanation to the crash. The New Adventures suggested that the aspects of the 7th Doctor caused the early regeneration of the 6th Doctor, quite frankly the most disturbing reason for a regeneration apart from the 2nd Doctor's. So how does that fit in with what we're seeing today? I'll leave that up to you guys to discuss in the comments.

Next week sees the next instalment of the Tour and it's the one I've been most excited about. I can't wait to see what Nesshead makes of it.

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Apologies to anyone who was looking forward to the 5th in today's Grand Tour, We've taken a slight detour, we'll see the 5th next time, but not where you're all expecting him. Sorry Johnny.

On a related note, we begin to see where we're going with this arc as of today. The Great Intelligence needs a change of clothes after posing as the Watcher and look at the set of clothes he's picked out. I wonder if this is going somewhere...

I try and not talk much about myself on here, but I'm going to steer away from that this week. I work as a Science Technician at a High School in Scotland. My school is currently trying to win giant Lego robots for the Physics department. Why does this concern you? Because we need people to click on 'Barrhead High' to get us votes, the school with the largest number of votes gets giant Lego robots to help teach the pupils.

Giant. Lego. Robots.

And I'd get to use them. In a professional capacity.

So, if you wouldn't mind clicking the link and choosing 'Barrhead High' that'd be much appreciated.

Next week we have... well what do we have? Where can we possibly go from the new 7 dissolving the TARDIS? Will there be an In Print next week?

Tune in same Bat Time, same Bat Chann.... hold on, that's not right. We'll see you next week and all shall become clear.

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Logopolis this stop and this is where things get interesting. That's a future projection of the Doctor that the Great Intelligence is posing as, you can't do things like that without serious repercussions.

But more on that when we get to the next stop of the tour.

It's a bit of a big week next week, I'm sure you guys might have heard something about it. I'll be posting up the blog next week then I'll be going into hiding, I don't want spoiled. I'm catching it at the cinema an hour or so after broadcast. Well hopefully. My little girl is going for surgery the day before and if she needs me I'll be staying put in the house. Tickets are booked though.

What I'd really like to be doing just now is discussing that Minisode, but given that Nesshead hasn't seen it and is saving it as an intro to the Special we won't be discussing it. I have to say that I really envy him, that Minisode would be an utterly fantastic way of opening the Special and I'm a little sorry that's not going to happen.

It has however given me several ideas for next years arcs for the strip, so I'm going to try and get them written today as well as the guest strips that'll be airing over Christmas and New Year to give our regular guys a break.

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Given the re-release of some 2nd Doctor episodes this week it seems pretty fortunate that we've chosen to focus on a 2nd Doctor story this week. Kind of.

This is more a behind the scenes type affair, but seems like a good point to cause some divergence and chaos in the Doctors time stream. It also appears to be an origin of sorts for the Web of Caves Doctor, certainly within the In Print Verse, bet none of you were expecting that.

This is, of course, the Time Lords deliberating on the face of the 3rd Doctor. If you've seen The War Games, and if you haven't correct that soon, then you'll know that the 2nd Doctor refused to choose a face, so the Time Lords chose for him. The gentlemen sitting in the background are the faces that were flashed up as options. They were done as fairly basic pencil drawings and Nesshead has done a great job of fleshing the out.

So where are we going next week?

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And so the Grand Tour begins. You can tell because of the limited edition banner we're using. You'll also notice Nesshead has finally stopped referring to himself as a guest artist. That's been needing done for a while.

The next set of Infinites strips will give you guys our particular take on what really happened when the Great Intelligence entered the Doctor's Time Stream, because I'm not utterly convinced that all he did was stand around and glare with his arms folded. There was a chance to do real damage and what better way to disrupt the entire Time Stream than by ensuring that the very first regeneration never happened? It's not as if the 1st Doctor could have put up much of a fight at this particular point. This is, in my opinion, the most fragile point in the whole of Whovian history.

We'll be following the Great Intelligence on his Grand Tour right up until and through the 50th Anniversery and beyond. Seems a proper way to celebrate. How does this all tie into the ongoing Infinites story? You'll just have to trust me that it does and wait and see.

So, where next?

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