THE INFINITES Strip 4

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A contact? I wonder who that might be?

I already know of course, but I wonder how many of you can guess?

It looks as if Dr Who really likes Seven's jumper, I can understand that; I'm wearing a Tshirt with it printed on it as I type.

I really do love the attention to detail that Jim and Nesshead bring these strips. I've spent the last few minutes staring at the chair in the last panel. It's a thing of beauty is it not? Takes me right back to the TVM.

I'd purposely put a 7th Doctor visual reference into this strip and was pretty chuffed to see that Nesshead had added an 8th Doctor one as well. This whole web series has been a bit of a love letter to all my favourite bits of Who and I really hope you guys are enjoying reading it as much as I'm enjoying writing it.

I'm currently working on the build up to the November Special, which will include even more of my highlights, in fact I can't believe it's taken so long to work these two into proceedings. Anyway, time I was going. Just enough time to mention that we're on Twitter and Facebook.

See you all next week.

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And here we go.

For those of you paying attention this is the direct sequel to 'The Infinity Doctors', as much as Jesse was loving drawing it there just wasn't enough time in the day to fit it in on a regular basis.

So it's a big thank you to Jesse for starting the ball rolling in such wonderful style a big hello to Nesshead who succeeds him as the regular artist for what we're now calling 'The Infinites'. A role he secured by sending us in the above strip. If it looks familiar that's because he was working off of the same script as Mike Key was when he produced his versions. In fact you'll see this strip one more time as we'll be showing off Tone's version as well in the near future. Nesshead's first full, written for him, strip will be appearing here in a fortnight.

So, have I gone too obscure with the joke in second panel? Has anyone got it? I'd love to know as I was rather proud of it.

I've also left a subtle hint about which of these guys might actually be the Doctor from the Infinity Doctors, in the 'In Print' Universe at least. I'd love to hear your theories in the comments.

In fact I know exactly who each of these Doctors are and how they're all connected to each other and I'm hoping to build up to the reveal in time for November. Although I may end up moving that into next year depending on how my timing of other plot points goes. Either way you guys are going to have to wait for just now, although don't let that stop you speculating in our comments section or on our Twitter or Facebook feeds.

THE INFINITY DOCTORS - MICHAEL DAVID KEY

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Episode 42 will be with you next week. Myself and Jim have been up our collective ears in family stuff what with it having been Christmas and all. I would say normal service will resume next week, but it won't. But, more on that next week.

It's nothing to worry about though.

In the meantime we thought you'd like to see some of the entries we had for the Infinity Doctors open audition we had a couple of months back. The two above strips come from Michael David Key, or as most of you probably know him; Mike from Mike's Star Trek and Doctor Who Art page on Facebook.

We loved Mike's entries and were really very sorry not to be able to give the top spot, however Mike is a good friend of the site and you'll be seeing some of his stuff on the site in the coming year. In fact he's already featured on our Christmas Special.

Anyway, I need to be going. I'll see you all next week with some big news.

Feel free to leave feedback either in the comments section, Twitter or Facebook,

THE INFINITY DOCTORS - Strip 8 Jesse Lax

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And that concludes 'The Infinity Doctors'.

It's not the end of the story though, not by any means. In fact if you've been paying attention to these blog posts then you'll know that we've been looking for an artist to take over from Jesse.

And we found one. That's his version of the Web of Caves Doctor just to the left. We're over the moon to be adding Nesshead to our team of artists. We asked Nesshead to tell us a little about himself.

"I'm an artist with a love for cartooning & Doctor Who. I'm from Pacoima, CA."

So these you have it. Nesshead has already submitted his first strip, in fact it was his audition for 'The Infinity Doctors'. We'll be posting that in the very near future.

But it won't be 'The Infinity Doctors'. Not quite. We're re-branding the strip as 'The Infinites'. Partly because we'll be focusing on just where they come from now that we now why they're here, but mostly because I was starting to get nervous when people were referring to "The Infinity Doctors by Alasdair Shaw". 'The Infinity Doctors' is of course by Lance Parkin, we were merely borrowing the title as the premise for the strip came from Jesse and myself discussing the identity of the Infinity Doctor. As the strip seems to have acquired an ongoing status I felt it was wise to rename it to avoid confusion.

And lawsuits.

But that isn't the only news today regarding new artists and strips.

Another strip has been percolating at the back of my mind for the last couple of years and I was hopeful that I might find an artist to help bring it to life amongst the artists submitting.

Then Tone Cartoons, of The Daily Dalek, submitted.

Not just a strip (which we'll be posting at a later date), but head shots of ALL the Doctors, not just the infinity ones. Then just when I thought he'd gone that extra mile he went further, he submitted a video using his head shots. Since then he's gone on to modify and update the video to reflect the new strip we're now working on.

It's called 'The Wrong Doctor' and we'll be releasing more information on it over the current months. In the meantime you can find the trailer for it here.

Those of you that know me from Gallifrey Base may find that title familiar and if you do some digging you may encounter some clues about the premise as well as proof that it's been on my mind for the last couple of years.

But in the meantime let's give Nesshead and Tone Cartoons a warm welcome to the In Print team!

And once you've done that you can go and like and follow us on Twitter and Facebook if you haven't already.

THE INFINITY DOCTORS - Strip 7 Jesse Lax

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Here we go; the penultimate Infinity Doctors from Jesse.

Jesse's leaving The Infinity Doctors to go back to Dangling Threads, our first collaboration. As much as I'll miss him here I can't wait to get the ball rolling on Threads again.

It's been a fun ride hasn't it? I've certainly enjoyed it. I had been hoping to announce the new artist today, but there are still a few more loose ends to tie up and we're still waiting on a couple of submissions. Rest assured that going by the entries thus far the Doctors will be left in very good hands.

Which means I best get cracking with writing the next set of strips so the new guy (or girl) can get to work on them.

I also need to finish the Christmas script. Not leaving Jim and the others much time at this rate.

Moving on; I'm not going to discuss last weeks Doctor Who. Not until I work out if I enjoyed it or not.

It seems that a good number of you enjoyed John Simm's Master dancing last week, including John Simm himself. Which was nice.

In the mean time we're still on Twitter and Facebook .










                                              

THE INFINITY DOCTORS - Strip 5 JESSE LAX

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Well that worked out nicely timing wise.

Most of the strips you read on here were written months ago and when I wrote this one there wasn't even the slightest hint that Richard E Grant was about to be cast in New Who.

Those of you wondering why Rowan Atkinson regenerated into another version of Richard E Grant haven't watched Curse of Fatal Death yet, have you? You really should, it makes these strips a lot funnier.

Ok, it makes them make a bit more sense.


Paul Hanley has released another installment of The Doctor and I. You should have a read as we seem to share some guest stars, although I think Paul may a good bit more ambitious then us in regards alternative Doctors.

Jim didn't meet Katy Manning last week. Mostly because it's today she's signing at Forbidden Planet. So those of you autograph hunting today should keep their eyes open as they might be able to get a signature off of Jim as well.


As usual you can keep up with us on Twitter and Facebook. See you all next week.

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  Ok, be honest; how many of you thought the Valeyard's first appearance in Paul's Guest Print was a throw away joke?

Oh he's here alright and he'll be appearing in the main strip further down the road. The Shalka Doctor is still around as well. I'm slowly, but surely, filling the strip up with my very favourite Doctors.

This is the same version of the Valeyard that writes for Kasterborous. I've written an article about our history with that website.

Speaking of personal selections of Doctors you should go and read 'The Doctor and I' by Paul Hanley and Shawn Van Briesen. The scripts are literally teaming with out of continuity references and the art is to die for. It's still a work in progress, but their previous collaboration is complete and available. 'Fade Away' is quite possibly the best Brig story I've ever encountered and it deserves to be in continuity. Go and read it now.

Next week sees the return of the main strip and marks our 50th strip (including guest slots). Yay us!                                              

During the week Jim received a tweet from Miss Jo Grant herself; Katy Manning. It would appear she was quite taken by her Jim's rendition of her. I suspect it may have been something of a high point for him and well deserved to boot.

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THE INFINITY DOCTORS - Strip 2 JESSE LAX

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And we're back with the Infinity Doctors. I do hope we've all been keeping up, especially as we have more guest stars appearing during this run of Guest Prints from Jesse.

It would seem that the Shalka Doctor is up to no good. Which is strange, because he's still the Doctor, right? Right?

I always thought that I would be limited in the number of characters for this strip. In fact it was only ever meant to be 7 and 8 starring, but the other Doctors just keep forcing their way in. I guess with an ego as big as they all have they were never going to sit quietly in the corner and let 7 and 8 hog the lime light.

In fact next week one of the earlier Doctors will be coming to the fore.

In the mean time enjoy today's strip, like the Facebook page and follow us on Twitter.

Oh and Jim got interviewed again. He comes across well I thought, but leaves one question unanswered: when is someone going to interview Al? Seriously; I cry myself to sleep  about this every night.

Feedback on a printed version of our strip has been sadly underwhelming. We'll leave the link up a little longer, but unless we get some feedback soon we'll need to drop the plan for just now.

In the mean time you can support us by buying items from our Amazon Store.

See you next week folks.