THE PROP CUPBOARD OF OBSCURE DOOM... 4

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My wife is not a fan of Doctor Who. Not even slightly. She can't stand any aspect of it even in the slightest and she worries that it's too scary for the kids to watch with me, mostly because the one episode she did watch had Captain Darling turn into an Ood.

Why am I telling you this? Well partly it's to distract you all from the fact that this strip has an Ice Warrior complaining about not appearing in New Who the very same day they finally reappear in New Who and partly because 2nd Fade has produced the only bit of Who art that my wife has ever liked. She simply adored that my youngest daughter and Jim's newest son had been turned into cartoons for this strip.

Jim and I are pretty over the moon that our kids are now canon. Thanks, 2nd.

So, yeah, Ice Warriors.

What can I say? This strip is written pretty far in advance, Jim's drawn up to August and I really need to get him more scripts. When this was one put together there wasn't the slightest hint of them reappearing. Still 2nd Fade does a pretty cool Ice Warrior and we feel the need to show it off.

Let's not talk about the Zygon in the corner.

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We've not had an 'Extra' for a while, so here's one that Jim had hiding on his hard drive. I'm actually finding the strip a bit eerie as myself and Tone had been discussing a similar joke for The Wrong Doctor. As it happens we opted not to use it in strip and Tone put his own spin on it to make a Tshirt, which you should all go buy, but like I said it's a little eerie seeing it turn up somewhere else.

I've finally finished writing the Christmas Special, much to Jim's relief. I was looking over the art so far when I realised we were at page 15 and still had a few pages to go. Maybe we should have had this printed, what do you guys think?

A few of the pages I've been sent it a little similar to the Target cover Jim's put up today. Partly because some of them are drawn by 2nd Fade and partly because... well I can't tell you why. Not just yet at any rate.

Anyway, as it stands you'll be seeing the entire story published live on the page on Christmas day! Or perhaps late Christmas Eve as both myself and Jim have families and our wife's may not be happy seeing us on our computers when we should be indulging in family activities.

Either way; it'll be available at Christmas. And like a certain other popular show we may have a few surprise guest stars; celebrity and Sontaran. Stay tuned.

For the record; we had our Sontaran booked long before anyone knew that one would be appearing in the BBC's Who entry for Christmas.

I'd love to say great minds think alike, but I suspect it was pure luck.

Right time for me to go, but before I do just enough time to remind you to check out our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

See you all next week.

THE PROP CUPBOARD OF OBSCURE DOOM... BY 2ND FADE

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We've been itching to show this strip off for a while now and with Jesse being on holiday it presented the perfect opportunity.

The Prop Cupboard of Obscure Doom is a new spin off strip for In Print. It would seem that when 2nd Fade did us a guest strip a few months back he caught the comic bug again and was interested in doing more guest strips for us. Myself and Jim were such fans of his work that we started discussing bringing Mr Fade (that may not be his real name) on as a regular contributor.

So, we through ideas back and forward and eventually came up with The Prop Cupboard of Obscure Doom. After all the old monsters from Classic Who have to be hiding somewhere and the notion that the monsters that hadn't been in New Who yet would be gathered there and less than happy about some of the creatures that had managed to get an outing.

The Macra for example.

So, expect to see more from the Cupboard as time marches on. Next week sees Jim return with the regular strip and the week after the Infinity Doctors return their tale.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, work continues on the Christmas Special for this year. Which reminds me if any of you can draw in a style which wouldn't be out of place in a DWM comic strip then we'd like to hear from you.

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