IN PRINT - INFINITIES 1

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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 - 114

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This was written long before the 13th Doctor was chosen, but it really doesn't read like that does it?
There was a slight mix up last week and I referenced a strip that I've written but that Jim hasn't drawn yet. It's hopefully coming soon and it'll confirm that we here at In Print Towers are very much in favour of the new Doctor.

In other news I've just sent Jim a whole new batch of strips to Jim and Nesshead will be getting some soon as well. Sorry for the delay in getting things back to normal.

IN PRINT - 113

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We're back and it's about time.

And yes, this strip is a ringing endorsement of the In Print team regarding the casting of Jodie Whittaker. She's a good actress with a solid CV, anything else is purely window dressing as far as casting the Doctor goes.

We've been a wee while getting things back on track and the responsibility lies solely with me.

I don't talk much about my private life on here, but a small handful of you know my divorce was getting finalised this year. Nothing to get down about, it's very definitely for the best, but it takes time and focus to deal with these things. Also, to give things a more positive spin I met someone else last year and since then we've moved in together and are expecting next month. However in between love, babies, co-habitation and engagements I found a lump. 

You don't need any further details than that, just that everything's resolved as far as that's concerned and it won't hold up the strip any longer.

Jim has a series of scripts that should take us past my paternity leave and I re-read the entire run of the Infinites yesterday and Nesshead should have new scripts in the very near future.

So, yeah, sorry about the gap, but a massive thank you to Mike and 2ndFade who kept it smaller than I could have hoped.

It's good to be back.

IN PRINT - 112

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I've been toying with introducing River ever since 'The Name of the Doctor', since she obviously has some kind of connection. So here she us!!

There might be a slight delay before the next strip whilst we deal with writing buffers.

By which I mean I've lost the damn scripts and we haven't finished unpacking yet...

IN PRINT - 110

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So. Multiple Masters huh?

Once again we find details ourselves accidentally ahead of the trend. 

In all seriousness this has been needing done for years and I can't wait to see how they do this.

IN PRINT - 109

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Aha! Plot development!

It's been a while, but I'd recognise it anywhere.

April's on us at last and the Doctor won't be far behind. I, for one, can't wait.

Apologies for the late posting, my partner moved in with me a week or so back and we're still living out of boxes.

Normality resumes.... ah sod it. You're never getting normal here and quite frankly I wouldn't thank you for it.

See you all next week.

IN PRINT - 107

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And that's it for this arc. Seriously this time. I've checked with Jim and everything.

The two 10s are looking as if they're going to be quite the visual double act. I can see them cropping up in the back of panels even when I've not asked for them to appear. Luckily I trust Jim's visual judgement on these things. Speaking of which; as much as I would like to take credit for 'The Doors' joke at the end that one was 100% Jim. Kind of wish I'd thought of it though.

Back to the Infinites next week and you guys are in a for a treat. I can't say anymore than that, but just wait....

IN PRINT - 106

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Yes that was my little swipe at people that thought the War Doctor was perhaps the Master or the Valeyard despite having 'as the Doctor' in big flaming letters right next to him the very first time he appeared.

I love the Valeyard, you might have noticed, but I really do get tired of all the 'It's the Valeyard!' yelling each time someone vaguely resembling him or an aspect of him appears. The only exception being the Dream Lord, I mean just look at the direction of 'Amy's Choice' compared to 'The Ultimate Foe'. Not only have the same root (darkest part of the Doctor type stuff), but the teleportation plot device they both use are directed identically!

Anyway, safe to say this new 10 is not the Valeyard, he's just what he appears to be, an earlier form of 10.

Jim was saying to me the other day how chuffed he was that we had enough strips that we could do flashbacks. For my part I was ecstatic to finally address the 8 to 9 regeneration we did in one of early strips. It's been annoying me ever since 'Day of the Doctor'.

In other news I've started back with Loose Canons, a conversation about self publishing with a friend of mine has given me the much needed kick I was needing, More on that in the coming weeks...

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The other three of him last turned up here and the Other guy was introduced here.

I still want to see the Others put onto a print or a Tshirt. What do you guys think?


 The next few arcs of the main strip and the Infinites are slightly connected, so Nesshead's ones need to run before Jim's ones. The thing is I can't remember if I typed up the last set for Jim. And if I haven't I'm not entirely sure where I left the hand written copies.

All will be well.

I'm sure.

Reasonably....

In Print - 96

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And Jim's back!

As you probably know 'In Print' isn't a professional web comic, by which I mean we don't make money from it and we all have other ways of paying the bills. It's a labour of love for all involved, but as a result when real life starts to stack up stresses and pains it's usually our time on the strip that has to be sacrificed rather than work or family time. You probably noticed a bit of disruption in the strip last year when I separated from my wife and this year Jim's had some pretty major dishevel in his personal life which is why it's been 3 or 4 months since we last saw his stuff. Nesshead has other stuff going on as well. Just the nature of things I'm afraid, sadly we can't make a living off and can't afford to quit our jobs and pursue drawing and writing careers, so it'll always be the first thing to go when things need pared back. But we'll always come back to it when time allows. Always.

And on that note I'd be remiss not to mention Mike Key at this point. We couldn't have kept the site going the last few months without Mike. At all. He's been utterly fantastic and I worry that I haven't told him that enough. Actually I worry that I don't tell all the artists that.

But I do.

Anyway...

In case any of you are wondering 96 is significant because the 8th Doctor's first (and until recently only) TV appearance was in this year. 7 is probably a bit grumpy about it as that's the year the stepped out the TARDIS and was shot multiple times and then had his heart broken (literally not figuratively).

Speaking of the telly, I'm still really enjoying the new series. 'The girl that died' was tremendous fun and almost, almost, had me liking the sonic specs. The idea of using them as an eye patch was perfectly in keeping with the episode.

IN PRINT - 'NOT' HUMAN NATURE Part 2

 

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 'Human Nature' does raise a number of issues regarding continuity and just how the NAs fit into the overall continuity.

I'm not even going to try and address them, that's a minefield I'm not prepared to on a Saturday morning. All I'll say is that my own, personal, take on it is that the events of the novel got wiped out during the Time War and history hates a vacuum.


The initial script had the last panel set in Mr Cornell's office. Jim decided to put him at a signing at my local Waterstone's either because he likes subtle nods or because he's not stalkery enough to know what Mr Cornell's office looks like. Incidently 'Love and War' has been out on CD for a while. The fact the poster is still up either suggests particular things about just when this strip is set and how much time has past since the Christmas before last when we were last here or that the Glasgow staff are really bad at changing displays. I know the answer of course, but I'd never say anything unkind about people who have their own Dalek.


Right, I need to get moving as I'm actually meant to be in Glasgow in about an hour and a half. See you all next week.

IN PRINT - HUMAN NATURE Part 1

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 It doesn't happen often, Jim and myself have been putting In Print out for four years now (as of this week) and we've rarely argued about anything to do with the strip. Sure there's been times when we've disagreed about certain elements, but we've always managed to discuss things in a civilized and friendly way and devise a solution that keeps everyone happy. In fact sometimes I forget that Jim and I have never actually met, we've not even talked on the phone. Our entire working and personal relationship is carried out through Email and text messages. Something we really should correct at some point since I've come to regard him as a good friend as well as a colleague.

But I digress. I usually do.

This week was different though. As I mentioned last week the name of this arc has been giving me trouble. Turns out it's been bothering Jim as well since he texted me yesterday with a bunch of suggestions and I replied with some of own. Things weren't heated, but we were definitely at a stand off, we just couldn't agree on a title and then my phone died. By the time I'd got my kids to bed and got some charge back into the phone Jim had found a solution to our predicament that fitted the actual story arc quite well. Unfortunately he'd suggested it right as my phone died, so I was worried he'd think I was ignoring it. Didn't help that I sent another suggestion before Jim's solution was actually delivered. More about that next week, in the mean time the adjustment to the title arc today was Jim's suggestion.

Anyway, I love 'Human Nature', I like to view the televised version as a reprint of sorts of the book form. Both pack an emotional stomach punch that always makes me sad that we've not seen Paul Cornell in these parts since. I would love to see him writing for the 12th Doctor, Capaldi seems to have sprung straight from the NAs and I can think of few other writers better equipped to write him in that style.

Anyway, time for me to go. See you all next week.

RETRO COVERS #3 - THE OTHER INFINITY DOCTORS

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A slight break in the narrative today. Mostly because I haven't sent Jim the next few scripts yet. I'm hoping to get them typed up tonight once the kids are in bed. Having said that the delay means another Retro cover from Jim and that's never a bad thing.

Speaking of Jim; he's on the Radio next Wednesday. Care to tell us a little about where and when, Jim?

Hello! I'll be on the Free Seed show on Soho Radio this coming Wednesday 25th Feb between 10-12am. It'll be available on-line to catch up later that day for those who cant listen in live. Website is right here - www.sohoradiolondon.com
Back to Alasdair!

I've been working on the Infinites for Nesshead as well, so hopefully by the end of this weekend we'll have scripts in place for the rest of the year.

Which reminds me; 2ndFade had a cool idea for a crossover, I should really get back to him about that....

IN PRINT - EPISODE 88

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It did seem like something of an odd choice didn't it? Having said that I was still glad to see 'Remembrance of the Daleks' reprinted as apart from being a cracking story the Target novelisation featured the first mention of the Other. In fact it's often regarded as being a prelude to the NAs. Still it's hard to be negative about any reprints, especially as we've got 'Human Nature' getting reprinted this month.

In other news it seems that Gallifrey One is going on as we speak. Nesshead is there representing the In Print team and he's brought ribbons. Seek him out, I'm not told he doesn't bite. At least not anymore.

Oh and has anyone out there got any idea where I could find a decent reference book for Big Finish stuff? I'm having bother finding one for a decent price.

IN PRINT - EPISODE 87

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He just can't catch a break, can he.

Having said that I do kind of get why Big Finish are doing these two releases, it's pretty hard to beat as a team. That and to be honest I'm pretty excited that Big Finish are 'reprinting' the 91-05 books like this. It's a dream come true to be able to hear Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy acting out their roles in these books.

'Lungbarrow' soon please? Or Paul McGann and John Simm performing 'The Infinity Doctors'.

Actually....

Dear Big Finish, could we please have 'Cold Fusion' done with the cast from 'Damaged Goods' and Peter Davison and Co? Adapted by Lance Parkin from his own book of course.

I might have asked for Colin Baker doing 'Spiral Scratch' a few days ago, but quite frankly with this announcement they've essentially created their own version of the 6th Doctor's regeneration. Between those two and 'Time's Champrion' and 'Time and the Rani' we don't have a shortage of 6th Doctor regenerations these days.

Although I do have to admit to being pretty excited to have one that involves Colin Baker himself. Of course the fact that the Valeyard is involved makes this a must listen to me.

The fact that I'm currently reading 'Time's Champion' and listened to 'Trial of the Valeyard' recently only add to the excitement.

Exciting times.

IN PRINT - EPISODE 86

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We are starting to resume normal service, but I've only just started giving out scripts again and there's not quite as much of a buffer as we would like.

But, yes, Russell T Davies' name should ring a bell with all of our readers as well as with 8. Most of you will know him as the Producer and Writer that brought the Doctor back to television a decade ago, but before he did that he he wrote a New Adventure for the 7th Doctor called 'Damaged Goods'. It's like a dry run, albeit a more adult one that New Who fans might be used to, for the new series. As was meant to be noted in today's strip Big Finish are 'reprinting' this year as an audio drama. I for one can't wait for it.

IN PRINT - CURATION Part 3

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Yeah, that was a Star Trek reference. There are other Science Fiction shows out there you know.

And of course we couldn't have a wig arc without having Hartnell's wig making a cameo of some description. If you don't recognise him you need to be reading 'The Prop Cupboard of Obscure Doom'. It's a throwaway gag that's taken on a life all of it's own. Literally. 

Jim's had an idea for keeping track of the wigs, you'll see the results of that in a few weeks.

It's the beginning of the end tonight. Trailer spoilers ahead and then some speculation.

Still here?

Really?

Right, on we go.

Last weeks trailer seemed to indicate that Clara was going to turn and that perhaps Clara was never really Clara. If this plays out the way I think it's going to then Steven Moffat is a bona fide genius and a master of the long game.

Think about it; when did we first see Clara? Well technically it was 'Asylum of the Daleks', but we'll come back to that. What we all thought was going to be 'The Snowmen' although that turned out to be a shard of Clara against the Great Intelligence. Nope we first met the 'real' Clara in 'The Bells of St John' when the Doctor went up against the Great Intelligence. Apart from linking Clara and the Great Intelligence and having Clara's personality up and down loaded at varying rates of success what this episode really did was show us that the Intelligence could have a false personalty installed for most of a persons life.

I think Clara has been an invention of the Intelligence the whole time. It would explain his apparent lack of planning in jumping into the Doctor's timestream in 'Name of the Doctor', it was all a bluff to allow Clara to jump in as well and planting the ultimate sleeper agent into the Doctor's life. 

If this is right then what we'll find the Doctor with a companion with a familiar face, but different personality. Which is what Madame Vastra was foreshadowing all the way back in 'Deep Breath'. Let's see if the Doctor can handle the same kind of change he usually inflicts on others....

IN PRINT - THE NEW GUY...

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The strip's a little late today. Mainly because I was still drawing it last night and finishing off this morning.

Jim here this week as Alasdair's a busy man this weekend. I've literally only had barely over 24 hours to construct this weekends comic due to going away for a family wedding earlier this week. But I've done it and here it is - more worrying reflections on the new series from 6,7 and 8!!

I might as well take the opportunity here to let you all know that a two page In Print strip will be appearing in the next issue of CSO - The Cult TV fanzine which will be available in the next couple of months. In Print will actually be 'in print'! We'll be letting you know the full details of how to grab yourself a copy as soon it's published. Or head on over to their website - CSO Fanzine  or their page on Facebook - CSO- FACEBOOK to find out first-hand.

We'll be back next week. Don't forget you can check all our updates on our Facebook Group page, please join if you haven't done so already.

                                     Until next time... 

IN PRINT - EPISODE 77

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As it happens the similarities between 7 and 12 seem to more than we first suspected. There's the Scottish accent of course (and they are cool), but from what we've seen of the trailers so far there seems to be an underlying darkness to this Doctor and a desire to correct past mistakes that we haven't seen since The New Adventures.

This is looking promising. Very, very promising.

And that's the end of 'The Fall of the Eleventh'. Next week should have been more Infinites, but Nesshead's laptop died and he's at San Diego this week. Apparently there's some kind of Comicon or something on...

If you get a chance you should go and find him and say hi.

We have an unusual strip for you next week and then a couple of guest slots. We'll see you all then.

IN PRINT - EPISODE 75

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That actually bothered me.

A lot.

There was a massive amount of build up to it. Years had been spent building up to it and in the end it didn't happen because Clara asked the Time Lords to stop it happening.

Not that I have a problem with a new set of regenerations being granted, there's certainly been precedent, but surely they could have granted them as the Doctor lay dying on the fields of Trenzalore, the transformation into his Time Line having already started. You could have had some fun with the Doctor pulling himself back together, literally, in order to regenerate.

But they went for the crack.

Oh well.

In other news the nice people at Tiny Rebel Games have given us 20 codes for Handles to celebrate his addition to the In Print cast.

Keep an eye on our Facebook group, there'll be a question popping up there in the next hour or so and the first 20 people to respond will get one the codes. So check in and make sure you're a member to be in with a chance!

I've had Handles on my team for ages, I have him levelled up to 50.

Part two next week, see you then!