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 - Curation Part 8

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Round about this time last year I asked Jim if there was anything he'd like to see appear in the strip in 2014.

"More Tom Baker."

There we go Jim. That's more Tom Baker than I ever banked on including in the strip. Four fours. A Fantastic Four if you will.

That's a Tshirt right there.

Right, well it's Christmas and I have my kids to look after so I'm going to be going. I will however linger long enough to apologise for the lack of a Christmas Special this year. We'll have one next year.

Probably.

Hopefully.

Maybe...

See you next week for some Infinites.

IN PRINT - CURATION Part 7

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Dun! Dun!! Dun!!!

You didn't think we were done with all the wig related surprises did you? For those of you who don't recognise this version of the 4th Doctor, it's from when he was prematurely aged in 'The Leisure Hive'. I'm fairly sure it's a wig and false beard, but you just never know with the 4th.

We're bringing you the final part of Curation next week, but we're still working on what follows. Nesshead's laptop is still down, but we do have the first strip in the new Infinites arc. We'll see, we've not missed a Saturday since we started and we're not about to miss one now.

Nesshead's laptop fund is still open.

I only mention that because in the last few weeks both Jim and myself have had close calls with our Turing machines. We can just about get by if one of us loses our IT, two would be pretty awkward, but if all three of us went down at the same time it'd mean a short break for the strip. Hopefully we can keep struggling on with our current tech.

Right I'm off for just now. See you all next week for the conclusion of Curation.

UPDATE:

"But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,

In Proving foresight may be vain;

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men

Gang aft agley,

An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,

For promis'd joy!"

This is what I get for talking about it. Jim's computer took a massive hissy fit this morning. Which is why you've been looking at a substandard, reduced in 'Paint' type strip today. Jim's hoping to get on and post it properly when his machine starts working again. 

If it starts working.

So, below Jim has his own button now. Same deal as with Nesshead's, no pressure, no obligation. But it would help bring you regular In Print.

Thanks and apologies.

IN PRINT - CURATION Part 5

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Sometimes it just all comes together. This arc was always going to centre around wigs, but after last week's revelation regarding the Brig we just had to include his 70s facial hair in our wig guide. Not just that it seemed only natural that Cyber Brig would have need of his old 'tache as there are some things that even Mondasian technology can't handle.

In all seriousness I can't get over the fact that they used the Brig like that. It just feels wrong doesn't it? As always here in the Print 'Verse we deal with horror and disbelief with humour. Which is why Jim's drawn Cyber Brig on my request, although I suspect he already had plans afoot to given how quickly he brought it all together.

My plan had initially been to save Cyber Brig for an 'In Print Extra', but Jim was especially keen on sharing this and he's right; it needs to be shared.

We went for humour, but 2ndFade went for something a bit more haunting. Have a read...

As for today's strip, well it's a riffing on 'The Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy', something of a distant spiritual relation to Classic Who. Well not that distant, Douglas Adam did write both of them at various points. If you've only ever seen the Martin Freeman movie then please go and seek out the BBC series or the books.

You're welcome.

Oh and Nesshead wants to say thanks to everyone who's helped out with his laptop fund. He's not there yet so there's still time to click the below button.

We nearly had to set one up for Jim this week as his PC had a bit of a hissy fit, thankfully he managed to fix it himself.

IN PRINT - CURATION Part 4

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I think my favourite thing in that room is the Adric monument done in a Robin style. You can pick the other details out for yourself.

Of course all this begs the question just how long has the Curator been around and where's the real 4th Doctor? Or is the Curator the real one? Has Tom Baker ever really stopped being the Doctor?

These are questions that I'm probably never going to answer in strip, but it's fun to ask them nevertheless.

The finale tonight. I, for one, enjoyed last week's episode quite a bit and just so you all know I don't have a problem with the Missy reveal. In fact it opens up an old relationship to be explored in different ways which is never a bad thing.

I hope you're all still reading 2ndFade's reviews of the series. They've been hugely entertaining and thought provoking. I mean the man referenced Nietzsche this week. Pretty sure no other review did that.

And speaking of contributors; we need to talk about Nesshead.

Nesshead had just started prepping the next round of Infinites when his laptop failed him. He's been trying to get it fixed, but these things take time and money and sadly he's not in a position to repair it any time soon. Which means, dear reader, that we'll have to stall the Infinites segment of the site temporarily.

We don't make much money from our store, pretty much enough to cover the running costs of the site, so we're not really in a position to pay for Nesshead's laptop to be repaired.

So we're just going to leave this donate button here:

There's no pressure or compulsion to donate if you don't want to. But the simple fact of the matter is that the sooner Nesshead raises the funds to replace his laptop the sooner we all get the Infinites back up and running. Every penny donated via the above button goes into Nesshead's laptop.

Thanks for your time.

IN PRINT - CURATION Part 1

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I don't understand people that say they miss Tom Baker playing the Doctor. As far as I'm concerned he's never really stopped. With the exception of 'The Five Doctors' he's never passed up an opportunity to step back into the TARDIS. So as far I can tell it's the same character that appeared in every panel in today's strip including the character we've come to know as the Curator. It just fits for me.

Sometimes you can't bring things into alignment as much as you'd like to and other times things just slot into place without any effort whatsoever.

Today for example. Jim left me a message in the blog draft, he's never done that before. Hold on, here it is:

Jim says: The Image of the I.M Foreman gate doors in frame 2 of today's strip is provided curtsy of Alan Watson-Henry who actively makes his own sets for Doctor Who figures and has a great interest in stop-motion animation.

Thanks, Jim.

He even left a few photos of Alan's work for you to admire.

As for myself, well I'd been planning on sharing a photo I received from one of my Kasterborous co-contributors, Joe Siegler, on a modification he'd made to one of his TARDISes to update it prior to tonight's episode.

It amused me no end, but it also got me thinking about an old subject; custom figures.

For a while now I've thought about dipping my toe into the model game. I figured I'd like a set of figures to reflect the Doctors that appear in In Print and it's easy enough to get Doctors 1-11, but no where does any of the Infinites. Which means you're relying on commissioned models to get a full set and not only is that pricey it's a bit of a lucky dip as well.

So, any advice you guys would like to offer about how to make up such a collection would be very much appreciated.

IN PRINT - CURATION Prelude II

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We take this break from our regularly scheduled Infinites to bring you another Prelude to an upcoming arc. We've done this once before...

I'm working on Curation just now. Kind of. Actually the truth be told I've finished it, but two things are bothering me about it. There's not enough drama, situations that should have you guys jumping up and down are kind of flat. I need to sharpen that a bit. The other thing that bothers me about it is that Jim came up with a belter of an ending for it and I need to reshape it slightly to try and slot it in. Not that I mind that last one, because it is a stonking idea.

Actually....

I've got it! I know how to fit it in...

But I'll finish on here first.

So, yes, Nesshead and the Infinites (sounds like a Hanna Barbara cartoon) will be back next week along with a fan favourite from the expanded universe. I'm trying to remember if I've told Jim about this, if I haven't I'm expecting an excited text during the week when the strip arrives in our inboxes.

Right I'm off to redo Curation....

THE INFINITES Strip 24

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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!



   

IN PRINT GUEST STRIP Curation Prelude- PAUL SALVI

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One last guest strip before we return to regular service. This time it's another of our recurring guest artists, Paul Salvi, on art.

Those of you that have been with us for a while might recognise today's strip as something of a reprise of his last guest strip for us. In fact his last strip acted as something of a prelude for Paradox Now, I wonder what come of this one...?

So, yeah, in the space of a few weeks I've added the War Doctor and the Curator to the cast of In Print. There's two more additions coming in light of the 50th celebrations and I'd love to see if any of you can guess who they might be.

2014 is going to be a fun year.

Jim's back next week folks and you'll get him for 3 continuous strips before he hands over to Nesshead to finish off the Grand Tour. After that we're going to be implementing a chance in the publishing schedule; you'll get one complete arc from Jim before another complete arc from Nesshead. The guys reckon this'll help them with their respective buffers.

IN PRINT EPISODE 64

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That. That right there. That, in my opinion, is the best panel that Jim has ever done.

I've just been staring at it. It's quite haunting.

Anyway, it's quite fitting that today's strip has 4 regenerated into 7. If you haven't seen Day of the Doctor yet then turn away now.

Seriously. Now.

Not in a few lines; now.

We clear?

Clear.

That, dear readers, is how you use Tom Baker in New Who. The Once and Future Doctor. Of course he was the Doctor, why wouldn't he be? He gives a nice balancing point to the Valeyard, except he's a bit more, well, solid than the Valeyard. He's what the Doctor has been looking for for a very long time; he represents a happy ending.

I love the idea that after all the adventures and wanderings are done he gets to be Tom again. It's a lovely thought and was worth the price of admission all by itself.

Between the Curator, the War Doctor and 12 (briefly) we were treated to three new (kind of) Doctors. It was fun. Certainly it had it's flaws, 7 changing costume especially bothered me, but you can't deny the love that went into that.

And did anyone else think that last scene could have been taken from the In Print Verse?

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Logopolis this stop and this is where things get interesting. That's a future projection of the Doctor that the Great Intelligence is posing as, you can't do things like that without serious repercussions.

But more on that when we get to the next stop of the tour.

It's a bit of a big week next week, I'm sure you guys might have heard something about it. I'll be posting up the blog next week then I'll be going into hiding, I don't want spoiled. I'm catching it at the cinema an hour or so after broadcast. Well hopefully. My little girl is going for surgery the day before and if she needs me I'll be staying put in the house. Tickets are booked though.

What I'd really like to be doing just now is discussing that Minisode, but given that Nesshead hasn't seen it and is saving it as an intro to the Special we won't be discussing it. I have to say that I really envy him, that Minisode would be an utterly fantastic way of opening the Special and I'm a little sorry that's not going to happen.

It has however given me several ideas for next years arcs for the strip, so I'm going to try and get them written today as well as the guest strips that'll be airing over Christmas and New Year to give our regular guys a break.

Don't forget that we have Twitter and Facebook pages and that you can support us by visiting our store and buying something.

IN PRINT EPISODE 40

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Ah yes, Seven and Eight. Didn't they used to star in this strip?

I seem to have gone off on a bit of a tangent of late, but don't worry; it's all part of the plan.

This week marked 49 years since Doctor Who appeared on our screens and this time next year we'll be in the middle of a full swing celebration of the half centenary. In fact our plans for this year coming are so epic that myself and Jim have already decided to forego the Christmas Special in favour of a Giant-Sized Anniversary strip  instead. All the dangling plot threads will come together as we celebrate 50 years of our favourite Time Lord.

But you'll still be getting a Christmas Special this year. It's coming together nicely. So nicely in fact that Jim hasn't stopped Emailing me pages from it since last night. Not that I'm complaining you understand, I don't think I'll ever tire of seeing scenes I've written come to life.

It's not just Jim though. We have a range of contributors for this year's Special and I really don't think any of you will guess what the nature of them.

In other news DJ Foo has followed in Colin Baker's footsteps and been voted off. DJ and Hartnell's Wig have been the two break out stars this year going by the feed back we've received so far. Let us know in the comments if you'd like to see the DJ back in the thick of things.

We're still on Twitter and Facebook, feel free to follow and like us there. 750 likes on Facebook and counting, would be nice to hit the 1,000 mark before the New Year.

Hint, hint...

IN PRINT EPISODE 38

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There you have it. For anyone who ever wondered where the Master in Scream of the Shalka came from; this is my version of events. And since it's the only version of events It's going to have to do.

This strip also includes my take on what happened to the Master after the TV Movie. Has anyone else ever addressed that point before? Surely I'm not the first on that one.

The strip has deviated somewhat from it's initial premise, maybe one day I'll get back to 7 and 8 screaming at the television set as Matt Smith annoys them, but for now I'm quite happy exploring obscure continuity. Hopefully you're ok with it as well.

Kasterborous ran an article about us this week. Apart from calling us a "popular online comic featuring all versions of the Doctor that you can imagine", which made me smile, they also queried just what we were up to with The Wrong Doctor.

It's a fair question and one that needs something of an answer. Tone Cartoons went into a small amount of detail over on his Facebook page for The Daily Dalek, but since not everyone follows him (your loss I'm afraid, we love the Daily Dalek!) I thought we'd post something here as well.

The premise for The Wrong Doctor is remarkably simple; what if a different version of the Doctor went on a previous or future regeneration's adventure? Given that there's a been a Time War and the Doctor has lost a handful of centuries it would make sense that some cutting and pasting of his personal time line might occur. How would the 4th Doctor have dealt with Ian and Barbara finding the TARDIS for example?

It's an idea that I proposed on Gallifrey Base a few years ago and it's been percolating in the back of my head ever since.

Tone and I are now working on the first few scripts and arcs as well as coming up with 'rules' to keep things consistent.

I'm also working on finishing our Christmas Special (it's 75% written), The Infinites and Dangling Threads.

If only I got paid for my time behind the keyboard.

Good thing I enjoy it really isn't it.

That's me for another week, just enough time to remind you all that we're still on Twitter and Facebook, feel free to follow and like us there.

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