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Wow they are pretty fantastic pages. Very fond of the Mad Tommy one in particular.

Seen it and fixed it. We don't normally do that but your query piqued my interest. That's how sad I am!

Wow fixing spelling and grammar errors now. I'll be ceepin ya buzee won't eye.

Interesting.  I have to say that the idea that people are enthusiastic about cramming pet concepts into their ideal Who episodes is vastly preferable to:

"Crap, we have 13 of these things come up with this year!  How about... the Doctor and Amy and a hostile alien get trapped in a lift and have to work together to escape...  Wait, I've got it, it's a space lift!  And the alien is, uhhh, I know!  A Dalek!  Or a Cyberman!   Or, or, or... the last offspring of the very last Dalek and the absolutely last Cyberman!  And only its time-imbued tears can fix the space lift - if only it could cry!  And it's the year 1 quadrillion and the universe is just about to end!  Gold!  Right, 12 more of those... hmmm, which alien costumes haven't we used this season?  Daleks?".  

Yeah but then if they had some of these top class writers on the more, restricted episodes, for want of a better term I'm sure they'd come up with something pretty cool. Thus possibly avoiding episodes like Black Spot (which may haver been that writers dream episode of course so I'm guessing at LOT here). Whether they'd be up for doing it is another matter entirely.

If these guests got another one to script, would it be more of a challenge for them too?

That's a really good point. It'd be interesting to see what people would do when they'd used up their dream episode they'd had since a kid.

Mind they might have two or three, but I'd like to see one have a go.

Welcome aboard and have fun.

Hopefully you'll enjoy you're catch up and heck so what if some of us like this or don't like that. Let us know what you do enjoy and we'll help find ya more.

At Kapow a wee while ago a couple of people I was chatting to were lucky enough to see a 7 page Brian Bolland Spirit strip that up to that point didn't have a home (it was due to be one of the '2nd Features' that stopped before it saw print). Well for one reason or another I never got the chance to see it I wondered whether I ever would.

So it would seem we all can if we want as its going to feature in an up coming issue of DCs Spirit comics (alongside a P Craig Russell strip that was mentioned on Bleeding Cool a while back). This will be available in August.

"THE SPIRIT #17
Written by HOWARD CHAYKIN, WILL PFEIFFER and PAUL LEVITZ
Art by BRIAN BOLLAND, P. CRAIG RUSSELL and JOSE LUIS GARCIA-LOPEZ
Cover by LADRONN
There's no refuge in a Central City snowstorm for a newsie down on his luck, but might The Spirit notice and save the day? And who killed the Central City councilman who had five mistresses too many? But the real question is, when does high art turn into criminal hijinks? You won't want to miss these three mysteries in our special black-and-white issue with extra story pages!
On sale AUGUST 10 • 32 pg, B&W, $2.99 US • RATED T"

Can't wait.

Either of whom, at there peak involved a lot more hair than I suspect we'll be able to muster between us. Though if Jim is still coming he'll boost the average at least!

I once wanted to write the end of a zombie apocalypse based on the fact 'fast' zombies would burn their energy reserves much faster than the traditional slow zombie. Like the smaller mammals with less explosive and expensive survival strategies were able to survive the event that finished off the dinosaurs (to completely over simplify that happening).

At first the various zombies would co-exist, then fast would drop 'dead' or in a desperate attempt to survive feed off the slower zombies and possible become infected by doing so. Much like the in fighting within human survives that is a bit of a trope of the genre. This would echo the ideas of 'Dawn of the Dead' of some kind of residual memory in zombies. All these goings on would be observed by a team of scientist types holed up somewhere by way of providing exposition. They are were crippled into inertia by their own inability to agree, as is often the case with science, which is strangely one of its strengths as well as a weakness. Eventually the more successful slower zombies too would fail and a few remaining observers would creep out of whatever cellar they hide in.

Then it dawned on me that I was thinking about trying to place a scientific rational on the undead beasts of the night and that was pretty much doomed to failure, or would end up being the most boring thing ever written outside the Silmarillion so very quickly let it go.

Looking forward to it and its got me out of a 2nd birthday party (tooo many of them being had at the moment!) so double good.

Uhhh great to hear that Jesus Redondo will be back in the Prog. There's so many of these returns happening its really quite wonderful!

October then is it. Shame was hoping with Issue 0 out and about that we'd get it a bit sooner than that. Still if it can stick to this date at least its on the way. Anybody who went to Bristol get to the panel?

first ever zombie tv show

Ahem... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Set_(TV_series)

Have to say as well Dead Set was vastly superior too. Different beasts I admit but if you haven't seen it I can't recommend it enough.

I'll be there.

Jovus, those Burns sketches are the business.

I'll say. I hope we got one more Burn Dante before the story wraps up.

Love that cover and its going to make a strong bunt for cover of the year I suspect when the time comes. If not we've got a blinding 6 months ahead for covers!

Nice to get introduced to someone new so have enjoyed having a quick nosey at his webpage, thanks for the link in there Pete. Great blog entry as ever. I don't say that often enough by the way.