IN PRINT GUEST PRINT - Cyber Paul

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A guest strip from Paul Salvi today. Long time readers will recognise Paul as a regular guest artist over the years, in fact he did the very first Guest Print. He's done a few others as well and was kind enough to do today's strip on very short notice. When I first encountered Paul he was drawing a comic called Living with Insanity and went on to draw The Line after his stint on that was finished. He's also contributed to the now wrapped up Gutters. Sadly he's not been drawing much recently (which makes me extra grateful for today's strip), hopefully he finds time and motivation to get back to a regular strip soon. Hell, I know I've got an idea for a multiple Master strip that needs an artist....

Oh and anyone wondering why the Special Weapons Dalek is referred to as Derek should read this.

Ness is back with the Infinites week, see you all then.

IN PRINT - 'SOMETHING' NATURE Part 7

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And we're done.

"Emotionally vulnerable Science Teachers" made me giggle somewhat, mostly because I work with Science Teachers and none of them are what I would term emotionally vulnerable.

Jim quite often surprises me with these strips. That last panel, for example, didn't have the other Doctors in the background in the script, but I think we can all agree that they belong there. In all the years we've been doing this I can only think of two occasions where I've asked Jim to alter something he's done for, although it's possible Jim'll recall more. Given that we're coming up to the 100th main strip and multiple side strips I think that says something about our working relationship.

Next week we have a guest strip, either from Jesse Lax or Paul Salvi, we're still working on scheduling. But both of these gentlemen are providing guest strips  help Ness catch up to my late writing. So, yeah, guest strips for the next couple of weeks, but you guys know the quality of our guest contributors, you won't be disappointed.

IN PRINT - 'SOMETHING' NATURE Part 5

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The first time we saw the Doctor diving through the sky was during Lance Parkin's 'The Dying Days' in a scene so intense and exciting that it could have come straight out of a series finale, which is perhaps why it felt slightly familiar when the 12th Doctor did something similar in the last finale we had. We've also had the Shalka Doctor, as written by Paul Cornell, free falling in what remains the best TARDIS entrance in any medium. It's not hard to to imagine that the current Who team had those two scenes in mind when 12's free fall was put together.

Of course it's also possible that they'd been watching 'The End of Time', but then today's strip kind of falls apart if we go down that road.

In other news I'm still working on fixing the navigation links, unfortunately my plan to do them last Sunday was foiled by my five minute nap lasting significantly longer than planned. Soon though.

Maybe even tonight if I can shake this hayfever.

IN PRINT EPISODE 50

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So, here it is. Our 50th strip.

Kind of.

It's certainly the 50th main strip. But In Print has expanded well beyond my initial plans for it. It started slowly, Jim did a couple of Extras here and there. Then he did a whole multi page Christmas Special. Twice. We had a couple of Guest Prints here and there. One of which evolved into our semi regular Prop Cupboard of Obscure Doom. Jesse came on board for The Infinity Doctors which has become our regular Infinites feature.

What I'm getting at is that this is our 50th strip and our 117th.

So we've marked the occasion. I just love the special one off strip that we've done for this. Jim has taken my initial idea and really run with it. I've been teasing you guys for months that it'd make a good Tshirt. Was I right? Well it's up in our store now. You tell me.

That's about it for me for just now. Just a quick reminder that we're on Twitter and that we're having a poll about your favourite Unbound Doctor on our Facebook page.

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See this is what frustrates me about the companions since 2005; he travels throughout time and space, but only seems to collect girls from the early 21st century? In my opinion the most interesting companions in the last few years have been Jack and Rory. One's a Time Agent from the future and the other a recovered 2,000 year old Auton. To mind that's more in keeping with being a Time Lord's travelling companion. River has been interesting, but I'm not sure if I count her as a regular companion.

Given that the current companion has appeared in two other time periods before being revealed as being from the early 21st century I'm still holding out hopes that she might not be a walking cliché. We'll see I guess.

Hope you guys have been enjoying the Doctors watching the show again. Don't worry there's another arc coming, it might even cross over with The Infinites, we'll have to wait and see.

I got a text from Jim earlier this week all excited about pictures of John Hurt turning up on the internet. At first I thought he was just excited to see him appear, but he had a few observations about his outfit that tie into the strip. Mostly because it resembles the gentlemen to the right's outfit. Feel free to discuss his identity in the comments section.

We'll neither confirm nor deny....

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IN PRINT EPISODE 45

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And there's Frobisher. Just when you think we couldn't get any further outfield with our companion references. Just be thankful that I can't think of a joke with Fitz in it. I know Jim is. I have him drawing enough new characters as it is.

But you'll see the results for that in good time.

Frobisher, for those of you that don't know, was a companion of the 6th Doctor in the Comic Strips. He wasn't really a penguin, that was just the form he chose to adopt most, because who wouldn't want to be a penguin?

There's no new Infinites next week as Nesshead is busy with a display of Hanna Barbera Art. You can find out more here. You might even be able to pick up a Nesshead...

So next week and a fortnight later we'll be having some more Tales from the Prop Cupboard. We've had some from 2nd Fade waiting to appear for the last month or so. In fact one of them is a prelude to an upcoming mini crossover between the main strip and the Infinites.

Did everyone enjoy 'The Bells of St Johns'? I know I did, I especially enjoyed the surprise cameo from one of our own cast as The Great Intelligence. Nice touch.

Tonight's looks as if it might be distantly related to 'The Pyramids of Mars', which can only be a good thing in my opinion.

As always we're on Facebook and Twitter so head over and show your support by giving us a Like and a follow!

Until next time....

IN PRINT EPISODE 44

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It's true you know; the Doctor did actually have a Cyberman as a companion. It was during the eighth Doctor's run in the DWM Comic and these days you can find him in Doctor Who - The Glorious Dead (Complete Eighth Doctor Comic Strips Vol. 2): Glorious Dead v. 2. And if you care to buy the collection through that rather blatant plug then you are in fact supporting In Print on a financial level.

So, yeah, I've expanded the cast again. Maybe one day we'll have a behind the scenes strip featuring Kroton and Mrs T. Probably not though.

Not much else to tell you this week, we'll have more news as Jim and myself adapt to remastering fatherhood. What we can say is that plans are in full flow for November, we have something special planned.

Our Twitter or Facebook accounts remain open if you have any questions throughout the week.

See you all in seven days or there abouts.

THE PROP CUPBOARD OF OBSCURE DOOM... 3

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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...