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Not sure if anyone else has posted this but Pat Mills has written an 8th Doctor audio play called Dead London out next year. It'll be interesting how is writing style is different for actors as opposed to comics.

Also the latest Panini collection of Doctor Who strips is entitled Voyager and has strips by Alan Mackenzie and pictures by John Ridgeway. Worth getting.

Oh and in the latest DWM there's a pic by infrequent poster here Mr Cliff Robinson.

First trailer for the movie based on Mark Millar's WANTED. It;s directed by Timur Bekmambetov (I think I've spelled that correctly), who did Russian movies NIGHT WATCH and DAY WATCH. Enjoy.

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493464/trailers-me60873718

...as posted on the recent Cliff Robinson thread...

avoid like the plague, the Mackenzie and Ridgeway strips with frobisher(?) the penguin were what stopped me getting the original dr who comics.

I'd just like to see if it makes sense as I've only ever read the story from the giveaway comics that Golden Wonder handed out years ago.

To counter that argument Run, don't walk!, to your nearest comic shoppe when it comes out. Frobisher, The Doctor, Ridgeway? Classic.

The Steve Parkhouse stuff that culminates in Voyager are the best Dr. Who comics ever printed (and Frobisher was actually quite an interesting companion at that point). Unfortunately, after Steve fell out with editorial, McKenzie's efforts never really cut the mustard in comparison.

Those Golden Wonder mini-comiocs were fantastic though (even if they were McKenzie reprints!)

Oooh, now I wouldn't say they were the absolute best. Among the very best, without doubt, but some of the 8th and 5th Doctor strips challenge them for the crown.

The Parkhouse/Gibbons Davison strips are pretty damn good (The Stars Fell on Stockbridge et al), but Voyager was the culmination of everything that Steve was trying to do with the strip, alongside what I'd rate as Ridgway's greatest artwork - just take a look at the waterfall dream sequence if you don't believe me. Steve managed to give the Doctor far more mystery, humour and tragedy than the concurrent television series did at the time, and without simply resorting to bringing back the past monster of the week. It's one of the few comics I've held onto since I was a kid, actually (and long since I lost interest in Dr. Who), which I think is telling.

Are the Alan Moore Dr Who stories available? Are they any good?

Are the Alan Moore Dr Who stories available? Are they any good?

No, unfortunately - as they were the back-up strip that didn't feature the Doctor, I suppose.

I've only read 'Business as Usual' (an Auton invasion story with David Lloyd on art), but that was very good.  The Cult of the Black Sun and Fenris the Time Thief stuff sounds really interesting, though.

I'd like to see a decent set of collections of the back-up strips, actually - lots of early Steve Dillon artwork.

Incidentally, did anyone notice the Absolom Daak homage/swipe on the laserquest-thingy poster in the Sarah Jane Adventures the other day...?

I am really looking forward to hearing Pat's episode.  The first four DWM comics all originally came from proposed TV stories, and a script by Pat called "Song of the Space Whale" stayed in consideration by the John Nathan-Turner team until it was finally declined in 1986.

I wrote more on the Tooth/Who connection in an April Thrillpowered Thursday...

Link: Tooth and Who

Did anyone else read the 8th doctor comic arc that led up to the Glorious Dead story a few years back?

I really enjoyed that one, though I won't go into why as it's out as a collected edition and I can't remember how to do the spoiler tags.

I mainly mention it as someone at the time complained in the DWM letters page saying that the art and story seemed more suited to 2000ad than the Doctor Who Magazine. I think this was intended as a complaint, but could explain why I enjoyed it so much!

I might be wrong here, but the song of the space whale script was the tale Pat used as a base when he started Muto maniac in Toxic, art by McMahon.

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a script by Pat called "Song of the Space Whale" stayed in consideration by the John Nathan-Turner team until it was finally declined in 1986.

There's a CGI thingy on one of the DVDs of the Space Whales - don't remember which one, though.

Very O'Neill, if I recall.

I too enjoyed the Frobisher stories, although I didn't care much for Baker's character in the show