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So we've rebranded a bit. We've merged the main strip with The Infinites to become, well, you've read the strip before the blog. In Print; Infinities. Going forward Ness will be handling the main art duties for the ongoing strip, but the Jim fans can relax as our Jim still intends to make strips, keep his hand in and will be handling the reactions strips with the 7th and 8th Doctor which this whole project was built on. 

I'm in the process of writing a few strips for the 13th Doctor era that we're hoping to get out there before the new era of Who kicks off properly. Jim has had a few ideas for Arachnids in the UK and I'm desperate to do something with The Power of the Doctor. The Guardians of the Edge could have been written for In Print I reckon and can't wait to unleash 7 and 8 on them. 

Ness has a good number of scripts already finished and it's got me buzzing to kick start the narrative element again. The Timeless Child has opened up several potential ideas for the strip. 

So, yeah, it's good to be back is what I'm trying to say. Very good.

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IN PRINT - It's about time!

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Doctor Who's back, and about time!

No doubt you're all excited as we are to see the latest incarnation of our favourite Timelord as she starts out on her journey to save the universe!

 And to show you how excited we are, this week our In Print artists have drawn their own version of number 13 - Left to right - 2ndFade, Micheal David Key (Mikes Star Art) and NessHead.

You can grab a Tee-shirt with NessHead's design on over at TEEPUBLIC here.

We'll be back next week...

THE INFINITES - Strip 57

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That's right! There was a previous arc! And a couple of Nick Briggs.

Actually in all seriousness Nick Briggs has played the Doctor a few times. One of the stage play audios, Exile, The AVs and I don't think that's the end of the list.

Actually there might be a few strips in that... Hmmmm.

In other news Nesshead is currently at SDCC. If you come across him buy him a drink.

And that's it from me for this week.

Ness Says: Hope everyone enjoyed the last few strips. More to come in the future. Al has some new scripts for me. Until next time my Whovians.

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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.

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Hello loyal In Print readers. NESSHEAD here. This is a historic moment. My first blog. :) I hope you are all enjoying the new strips. Seems like yesterday that I drew the first strip as a guest artist. Drawing for In Print has lead to other Doctor Who assignments. Two annuals and a magazine so far. 

Always a pleasure to draw these non cannon Doctors for you. If you are a member of our Facebook group, please leave some comments about the strip. Would love to here your input. Take care and thank you for reading THE INFINITES.

Al says: So I've given some early 10 dialogue to the Fatal Death Doctor, I'm comfortable with that.

I'm enjoying the hell out of seeing the Merlin Doctor interacting with the Infinites. There should really be more of that, but there's really not a lot of Merlin stuff out there from a Doctor Who perspective. Google will just tell you that a bunch of fans really, really want Colin Morgan to play the Doctor.

THE INFINITES - Strip 53

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Aha! An Infinites.

I've got some fun ideas coming up for these guys that I need to get sent over to Nesshead.

Jim and Nesshead will be taking over the blog for the next few weeks as Baby Shaw is landing this week. (Note to self: talk to Jim and Nesshead).

Loose Cannons needs work as well, though I suspect that Lance Parkin may have written a version of it. I really need to order a copy...

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And we're back. The last time we saw these guys they were breaking into the studios at Big Finish. Which begs the question; has anyone seen the Nth Doctor recently?

Some of you may recognise the Infinite's guest as the Merlin Doctor from Battlefield. I've been doing quite a bit of research on him of late for 'Loose Canon' and the next few strips are proof positive of that.

In other news a group that I'm quite involved with, The Glasgow Doctor Who Society, are mentioned in their previous regeneration as the Strathclyde Doctor Who Society in this month's DWM. Before my time,but still a nice surprise.

Right I need to get moving. See you all next week.

THE INFINITES - Strip 50!

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Yeah, so, ahem.

Remember when we suggested that 'Cold Fusion' should really be in Big Finish's pipeline? Turns out it was. We're all really happy to hear about this, mostly because it's a really, really enjoyable story (one of my favourites from the Virgin range) and a little bit because we'd had to have re-written this arc.

Speaking of this arc, we interrupt it to bring you Nesshead's celebration of our 50th Infinites strip! Nesshead spent a lot of time on this and it just reinforces my feeling that I'd love to see more Unbound Doctors and that they have a ready made cast waiting. It's also worth noting that two previous Unbound cast members are returning to Big Finish soon and that one looks really, really familiar....

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Oh yes, we've gone there. Big Finish.

Actually I've been meaning to come here for a while, but you guys are going to have to wait until next year to see why and what's going to happen. I've written a good chunk of the Big Finish outing, but haven't had a chance to type it up and send it to Nesshead yet.We're in the process of planning out the Christmas schedule and then I hope to spend tomorrow afternoon typing up scripts for the three strips and getting a writing buffer back into place properly.

And yes I'm aware Colin Baker is missing. It's not an accident. You'll discover why in time.

Now, last week's episode of Doctor Who. Wow.

Although I was a little disappointed that it wasn't the pure single hander that we'd been promised it was still an utterly outstanding performance from Mr Capaldi and I can't wait to see what happens next. Although it strikes me as odd that when 'The Impossible Astronaut' aired that the Moff insisted that one of the main cast was definitely going to die and then didn't, but this time around the Doctor was killed repeatedly and properly yet no one mentioned it in the build up. I'm very glad they didn't, would have been a hell of a spoiler, but still, strange.

And yeah, the Infinites seem a little more finite now. That was a serious amount of skulls floating in that river.

Anyway, I'm off now. Looking forward to tonight's finale and also the the finale party that the Glasgow Doctor Who Society are throwing at the Flying Duck tomorrow night. Catch you all soon.

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And here's some new Infinites. It's been far too long and great to see them back. With a Star Trek crossover no less. I didn't really much of Voyager, but it always amused me that they had a character known as the Doctor. Although it would seem our own Doctors aren't nearly as amused.

I've got about a dozen scripts for Jim and Nesshead that I need to type up so they can get the buffer back up and running. It's a constant source of frustration (for myself as well) that I write all these on paper first and then have to type them up. I did try a few times just taking photos of my notes, but neither Jim nor Nesshead could decipher my handwriting. Not an uncommon complaint.

More Infinites next week, then it's onto the Christmas schedule which includes some new Prop Cupboard and Who's Cat.

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He's not wrong. 'Exile' is tremendous fun, but it's totally insane. It stars Arabella Weir as the Doctor and at the risk of spoiling it slightly Nick Briggs has a cameo as the previous Doctor. If you ask me though the real fun comes from the pair of Time Lords attempting to track down the Doctor, one of whom is played by an actor we're all pretty familiar with. Look just go out and get it from Big Finish, you can thank me later.
Arabella Weir went on to guest star in 'one of the Matt Smith Christmas Specials alongside Bill Baily and I was disappointed that more wasn't made of her turning up. Mind you I didn't make the connection til later myself....
A slightly earlier draft of today's strip was previewed to a small selection of folk at the Glasgow Doctor Who Society as there are a couple of them who are fans of alternate Doctors (in fact Dave has dreams of cos playing as the Nth Doctor) and I thought they'd get a kick from it. They laughed, so I'm hopeful you guy'll do the same.
Right I'm going now as I'm typing today's blog in Facebook messenger so Jim can copy and paste it straight into here. So please forgive any mistakes I made may of.

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Yes, the Cushing Doctor is about to throw his coat over what he thought was a Dalek. The Doctor has previous form in this regard, check out the opening episode of 'The Time Meddler' if you don't believe me.

For those of you that aren't familiar with him the gentleman with the microphone is the Nth Doctor as played by Nicolas Briggs in the Audio Visual Adventures in Time and Space. The Audio Visuals were the precursor of Big Finish and quite frankly a model of how sometimes fan fiction and fan fuelled productions can lead on to bigger and better things.

The reason that he's holding a microphone and speaking like a Dalek is that Briggs is now the official voice of the Daleks on New Who. This is going to get complicated. So complicated that I need to write another few strips tonight and send them to Nesshead.

Needless to say I have a plan here and this is the beginning of a series of arcs that'll spread out over the year.

I have plans....

IN PRINT - Je Suis Charlie

We don't do political. We don't do controversial unless it's within the realms of our favourite sci-fi fantasy show. But sometimes something happens out there in the big wide world that makes us stop, sit up and listen.

On Wednesday 7th January 2015 two gunmen burst in the building of the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris and killed several member's of staff including journalists and four cartoonists. For those who don't know, Charlie Hebdo is a French satirical newspaper published weekly featuring cartoons, reports and jokes very anti-racist and left-wing in tone. They would publish articles on the extreme right, Catholicism, Islam, politics and culture. Recently they published a number of controversial Muhammad cartoons sparking criticism.

The reason behind the attack? Freedom of speech and expression. The words Je Suis Charlie has been adopted across the globe as resistance to those who threaten the freedom of self-expression.

We dedicate this weeks strip/blog to those who have lost their lives in Paris this week and to show
that we must never be afraid to write/draw and stand up for we believe in.

Je Suis Charlie. 

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Now wouldn't that be a very cool team to have on Legacy? At this point in the time the only ones of them actually available is the War Doctor and K9, although we've been promised Ace in the reasonably near future.

Perhaps we should start the campaign for Frobisher here and now. What's the worst that could happen?

For those of you who have been wondering, and indeed those who haven't as well, I've included the team I've been playing with.

I keep feeling the urge to make up an 'In Print' team, but you can only have one Doctor and K9 is the only character available that's really been in the strip.

Unless you count the Adipose. You may have noticed that Jim likes throwing them in every chance he gets. But that still leaves us a good bit off getting a solid 'In Print' team put together.

Anyway, time I was moving. Next week sees the return of Jim with 'The Fall of the Eleventh". It'll see two new cast members joining us.

I wonder if either of them appear in Legacy...?

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Ah, guest starts. And what guest stars, huh?

Ace, Leela and Daak. If any of the Doctor's companions fought in the Time War it would be these three. Not that Daak was a companion, but there's no way he'd ignore a chance to kill that many Daleks.

Ace is done up in her New Adventures clothes. Chances are some of you missed that she was Ace due to the lack of leather, but NA Ace is much more likely to have taken part in the Time War, especially with her experience fighting Daleks.

Leela's new look is based on 'The Time War Leela' by Paul Hanley, with permission from Paul. You have to imagine that she would bring a savage edge to proceedings that the Time Lords simply couldn't.

Anyone else think they'd love a series with these three, Frobisher, K9 and the War Doctor in the Time War?

Speaking of which, is 'Engines of War' not out soon?

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Jim here writing the blog this week. Alasdair's had a slight accident and is resting so he's asked me to step in.
More Time War madness this week but not as we know it! Another cross over this week brought to you by Alasdair and Ness Head on art duties. One can only wonder where it goes from here.
Again Ness has captured the Enterprise crew from the two different time zones perfectly.
I'm particularly pleased with Ness Head's art this week due to the fact that I'm in it! I've been assimilated! Those who know me personally will tell straight away but for those that don't I'm the right hand male Borg in the middle. I didn't know I was appearing until it was sent to me last week. Believe me, I was surprised to say the least.

Other new this week is I'm working on a strip for the UNIT Fannual - a follow up to the popular Peter Cushing based Dr. Who Fannual that came out earlier this year. A prospect I'm really excited about as this'll be the first full Doctor Who based comic strip I've done solely for a printed publication. Good times.

A quick reminder that I've created a Facebook group for In Print. I would urge you all to join it, especially if you've not been getting all of our updates. We've found that although we have about 5,000 of you liking us on Facebook that each update tends to reach less than 200 of you. Being part of the group means that you should see each and every update. We've also been showing off pre-strip sketches and alternate designs for some characters. Come and join us over there!

Right, that's me signing off for this week, hopefully Alasdair will be back to entertain you next week all being well. See ya!

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Looks as if the War Doctor has gotten a little lost on his way back to the Time War. This is a War and it's certainly got quite a few similarities to the Time War, but it's not quite right is it?

Although that moon in the 2nd panel looks a little familiar....

Is this a thinly veiled excuse to have Nesshead draw Star Wars stuff or is there a plot coming? You'll find out next week.

But would you really be upset if it was the first reason....

A quick reminder that Jim has created a Facebook group for In Print. I would urge you all to join it, especially if you've not been getting all of our updates. We've found that although we have about 5,000 of you liking us on Facebook that each update tends to reach less than 200 of you. Being part of the group means that you should see each and every update. We've also been showing off pre-strip sketches and alternate designs for some characters. Come and join us, it's going to be fun!

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We now know that John Hurt played the real, official 9th Doctor, but that Christopher Eccleston is still referred to as the 9th according to Steven Moffat (and I can't fault his reasoning). But before this most recent confusion there were still other contenders for the office of the 9th Doctor.

The Shalka Doctor (or is that the Great Intelligence? The lines are blurring slightly) was the official 9th Doctor for an incredibly short period of time before RTD was able to announce his newest project to the world.

The Fatal Death Doctor also has a claim, albeit a bit more tenuously, as he appeared on a BBC sanctioned project and was under the stewardship of one Steven Moffat.

We've glossed over this subject once before, but I thought it deserved to be revisited for the Grand Tour.

In other news Jim has created a Facebook group for In Print. I would urge you all to join it, especially if you've not been getting all of our updates. We've found that although we have about 5,000 of you liking us on Facebook that each update tends to reach less than 200 of you. Being part of the group means that you should see each and every update. We've also been showing off pre-strip sketches and alternate designs for some characters. Come and join us, it's going to be fun!



   

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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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Here we go.

It's the Other(s) again. We last saw them in the conclusion of 'Paradox Now'. They're appearing here as the 7th Doctor was more in tune to his possible past selves than the other Doctors, as detailed at various points during the 'New Adventures'.

I've been looking forward to this one for a long time now, the concept of the Other is what edges the 'New Adventures' past the other books from the 91-05 period for me. It's also no accident that outside that range my favourite books remain 'The Infinity Doctors' and 'Cold Fusion'.

The Other also got some vague references throughout Series 25 and 26 (we don't talk about Series 24) in amongst various games of chess.

So, yeah, this strip is more than a little bit indulgent for me. I hope you guys enjoy it just as much.

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