THE INFINITES - Strip 56

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As I've mentioned before I've been digging around Merlin's history for Loose Canon. The biggest surprise so far is that in Merlin's appearance in The Neutron Knights (a 4th Doctor comic) he doesn't say anything that rules him out of being the Doctor. Quite the opposite in fact. Also the 4th Doctor's memory was quite fuzzy afterwards, almost as if he'd just met a future version of himself.

I've also uncovered evidence that the Muldwych Doctor isn't just an older version of the Battlefield Doctor, but I'm keeping that under my hat until Loose Canon comes out. Got to keep some surprises.

THE BOILER ROOM OF OBSCURE DOOM...!

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Way down deep in the Boiler Room of the In Print 'Verse the Ice Warrior DJ's are celebrating the return of their glorious race in tonight's episode of Doctor Who. For those unfamiliar with the Boiler
Room, they are a series of televised recordings of various underground DJ's performances from across the globe. You can find most of these uploaded to YouTube, check some out - The Boiler Room TV .
Today's art comes courtesy of 2NDFade, a regular round since very early on. You can find more of his abstract art here -- http://www.2ndfade.com/

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My wife is not a fan of Doctor Who. Not even slightly. She can't stand any aspect of it even in the slightest and she worries that it's too scary for the kids to watch with me, mostly because the one episode she did watch had Captain Darling turn into an Ood.

Why am I telling you this? Well partly it's to distract you all from the fact that this strip has an Ice Warrior complaining about not appearing in New Who the very same day they finally reappear in New Who and partly because 2nd Fade has produced the only bit of Who art that my wife has ever liked. She simply adored that my youngest daughter and Jim's newest son had been turned into cartoons for this strip.

Jim and I are pretty over the moon that our kids are now canon. Thanks, 2nd.

So, yeah, Ice Warriors.

What can I say? This strip is written pretty far in advance, Jim's drawn up to August and I really need to get him more scripts. When this was one put together there wasn't the slightest hint of them reappearing. Still 2nd Fade does a pretty cool Ice Warrior and we feel the need to show it off.

Let's not talk about the Zygon in the corner.

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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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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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