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Tooth tales tend to have the same mix of humour, action, characterisation and downright weirdness that'd make for a good Who yarn, so which script droids do you think would churn out the best Doctor Who episodes?  

Started thinking about this earlier and the list of droids just keeps growing; I'd love to see pretty much all the droids' respective takes on the Doctor.

So, your thoughts?

Mark Millar.

John Wagner, Pat Mills, Dave Gibbons, Mike McMahon, Steve Parkhouse and Steve Dillon all worked on Doctor Who series in Doctor Who Magazine, and they turned out some absolutely smashing work.

If I had to pick current creators, I suspect Si Spurrier could write something quite interesting for Who, as could Ian Edginton. Henry Flint could do some great stuff on just about any Who tale you threw at him, Dom Reardon would be fantastic on a horror tale like "...Fang Rock", and Frazer Irving does damn fine Cybermen. There are probably more I'll think of in a minute, but those are a few I'd like to see in DWM...

And Mike Collins is currently drawing the Doctor.

The twat.

Hehehe.
I only hope that Mike, if he's reading tis, has read the previous thread to know what you're talking about there, Fate...

Hmm... artist-wise I'd have to go with Frazer Irving, especially for any stories with a darker feel.  Everything he's done lately has just been grand.  I'd be interested to see Si Fraser doing Who, too; he can do the big, weird sci-fi stuff and the up-close human emotional stuff equally well.  

Still not sure about writers.  Si Spurrier would do a fine Who, no doubt, but I'd be interested to see Wagner's take, or to see what Abnett would do.

See, what we need is an Extreme Editions-style one-off, with half a dozen Who stories from Tooth.  I doubt it could happen, but hey.

Yeah, I never thought of Spurrier, but him and Steve Roberts. I'd like to see them on a light hearted tale.

I'd like to see Shaun Thomas and Alan Grant set loose on one.  

They have the requisite ability to bounce back and forth between comedy, drama and self-referential po-mo stuff.

Thursday --

As I said, Wagner has already done some work for Who - check out Doctor Who: The Iron Legion for some of his writing. I believe Abnett also wrote Who for Doctor Who Magazine back in the early-mid 90s, as did current Meg editor Alan Barnes. At least some of those stories are due a reprint this autumn in the next volume of collected Doctor Who from Panini, IIRC...

Amstor; blech, brainfart, sorry.  I read your post, thought 'cool!' and then completely forgot by the time I actually started typing.  I'd still like to see what they'd do for the new Who, though.

Heh, no worries :-) I'd be interested in new Who from Wagner as well, though not having read any of DAbnett's earlier work (and being pretty much bored of most of his writing in 2K at the moment) I don't know if I'd be fussed about him.

Spurrier - I've said it before and will say it again, I would love to see him do a Who Novel.

Rennie would be interesting too.

Grant Morrison wrote the fanwankiest Doctor Who story ever for DWM in 1986 or 87.  It was called The World Shapers and it had the Sixth Doctor tracking down his old companion Jamie, who was now an old man, because the Doctor heard some weird reference to "Planet 14" and couldn't remember what it meant.  Jamie recalled that the Cyber Controller from "The Invasion" had recognized the two of them from "Planet 14."  So Jamie joins the Doctor, Peri and Frobisher in a trip to Marinus, the planet seen in a 1964 serial "The Keys of Marinus," where the alien Voord turn out to be the organic beings that first turn themselves into Cybermen and rename their planet Mondas.  Somehow or another this is Planet 14 and that's how the Cybermen know Jamie from their history.  Jamie doesn't live through the adventure.  All it's missing to keep it from total absolute fanwank is some Daleks and a team-up between K9 and Kamelion.

John Ridgway pencilled it, but somebody else (Tim Perkins?) inked it and his lines were way too heavy to do the art justice.  Still, it was an interesting approach, and the script was a little more structured than the Alan McKenzie approach from the earliest Sixth Doctor comics, which seemed to be "Take Drugs and Read Mother Goose Before Typing Script."

I can't wait for The Tides of Time collection to show up in American shops.  Those Fifth Doctor comics were fantastic from start to finish.  I mean, "Stockbridge Horror" or anything from season twenty?  Steve Parkhouse wins!

--Grant

Incidentally, there's a wonderful site which archives all the Doctor's comic adventures through DWM #304.  It's in need of a big update to detail the strips from the last four years or so, but everything from "the good old days" is archived here...

--Grant

Link: Doctor Who Stripping Down

First name that popped into my head was Simon Spurrier. He's got the right kind of humour for it I think.

I'd quite like to see a story Paul Cornell story with art by D'Israeli.

There is already a Dalek and Tom Baker in one of the illustrations he did for the Sherlock Holmes story by Paul Cornell BBC site.

"I'd like to see Shaun Thomas and Alan Grant set loose on one."

Alan was asked to write a DWM script, but turned it down, as he wasn't interested in the character.

Actually, Alan wrote a three-parter called "Invaders from Gantac!" in 1989...

--Grant