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Post by IMForeman on Jan 7, 2009 6:53:21 GMT
Has anyone been reading these comics? They're pretty good. A ton of continuity nods, if you like that sort of thing. *innocent look* Not only is it dealing with all his past incarnations but it's set in an museum about the Doctor, so the background is filled with a bunch of recognizable objects - "exhibits", as they were.
Anyway, the story seems solid for the most part. It hasn't really been going anywhere before but issue #5 just came out and things are getting interesting now. The art's good, although it went through a dodgy stage when the regular artist Pia Guerra was unavailable.
They're worth looking into if you're okay with reading comics. Unfortunately, I don't think you can still get a subscription to them and it looks like the first issue isn't available (maybe somewhere?). They'll probably release a trade paperback at some point.
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Post by primsong on Jan 12, 2009 19:28:03 GMT
I've never yet seen a DW comic in any form except the occasional scans online. They look like they range from painfully bad to artful and interesting to so bizarre they're just amusing - still I like the concept of taking his adventures and placing them in comic-book formatting, I think it would be a fun jaunt into a sort of AU (Oh no! The TARDIS went sideways and now the entire universe has the appearance of comic-book art...!).
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Post by jjpor on Jan 12, 2009 23:56:12 GMT
That'd be very interesting actually... I'm all for animated Who; so weird animated inserts, Roger Rabbit style, into live action episodes seems like the next step...
I have a handful of old Doctor Who Magazines from the 80s and 90s (in very bad condition!) with the Marvel comic strips in them; some of them are pretty good, even if most of the stories are unresolved because I'm missing issues. Frobisher, the penguin-shaped companion that Six had in the comics, is all sorts of amusing. There's a great story set in the Frontier in Space universe, where Six is teaming up with a sort of Magnificent Seven of characters from different species, including Peri, Frobisher, a sort of Draconian ninja and some gunslinger chap, to fight an ancient evil on a dead planet, etc. etc. I have absolutely no idea how it ends - it cuts off just as it's getting good!
And when Marvel were doing Doctor Who, they had a habit of doing crossovers with their other properties. I think a lot of people know about the passing mention the Brig gets in some old X-Men comic from the 70s. There's apparently also a bizarre story featuring Seven and the Incredible Hulk (??!). One I actually have in a drawer somewhere is an issue of a comic called Death's Head. Death's Head was a spin-off character from the Marvel Transformers comic, a wisecracking android hitman-cum-bounty hunter and about as awful and cliched as that sounds. Anyway, in one issue he gets hired by some alien industrialist to kill the Doctor - it's Seven, strangely companionless, and of course Death's Head fails miserably, the dolt. I realise all of this talk of comics makes me look like an enormous geek, and, well, you'd be right.
So, to get on-topic, no I haven't seen the new Who comics, but I have a passing acquaintance with the old ones, and I think comics can be as good a way to explore Who as novels and audios.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 13, 2009 4:15:22 GMT
There's apparently also a bizarre story featuring Seven and the Incredible Hulk (??!) that's all sorts of awesome and upsetting blended together until I'm not quite sure what to feel anymore (this being said, my only aquaintance with the Hulk is that awful movie that came ou a few years ago with the mutant poodle and weird editing... there was probably more to it than that, but that's all I remember... only time in my life I've ever walked out of the theatre). |
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 13, 2009 4:44:26 GMT
Is there any form of media untouched by Doctor Who? I'm sure there must be something but I can't think of what. It doesn't look like any one here has read The Forgotten so might as well make this into a general discussion of Doctor Who comics.  For those that are interested in the older comics IDW has reprinted some Tom Baker comics with art by Dave Gibbons (better known for illustrating Watchmen) called Doctor Who Classics. I only got one of the issues but it seemed very nice. I believe that is in trade paperback now. |
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Post by jjpor on Jan 13, 2009 21:52:16 GMT
Is there any form of media untouched by Doctor Who? I'm sure there must be something but I can't think of what. Opera? ;D Nope, sorry, haven't seen The Forgotten, but who knows they may do it as a trade at some point. I do have a couple of reprinted collections of the 70s strips you mention (I think some of them may even have been written by Alan Moore back in his freelance days, although I could be wrong), and I'd just like to put a word in for possibly the greatest invention of the Who comics, better even than Frobisher - Beep the Meep!! One of the best Who villains of all time, and it'd be brilliant if they could somehow put him onscreen in NuWho - a warmongering, thoroughly evil would-be galactic dictator hated and feared by races the universe over...who just happens to be a cute little furry critter with big adorable eyes... I remember also in the mid-80s there were little Who mini-comics that they were giving away in packets of breakfast serial or something (some sort of foodstuff) - the one I had was Six and Frobisher, and some Cybermen. Don't remember the story, but they were kind of half completed Cybermen with human arms and legs. I have absolutely no idea what I did with it. And yes, Clocket, the Seven/Hulk crossover (which I have only heard of but never seen), does sound fascinating. In the same way that a horrible car crash might be fascinating when you're going in the opposite direction along the dual carriageway... |
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Post by primsong on Jan 14, 2009 18:48:17 GMT
Is there any form of media untouched by Doctor Who? I'm sure there must be something but I can't think of what. Opera? ;D If Three singing opera at the beginning of Inferno and wearing an opera cloak count... no, not even that.  |
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Post by jjpor on Jan 14, 2009 22:35:57 GMT
If Three singing opera at the beginning of Inferno and wearing an opera cloak count... no, not even that. I was going to say puppet theatre, but then I remembered the Drashigs... |
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 15, 2009 2:13:34 GMT
Not exactly Opera but... www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oZH2UMJFoEDIT: *head desk* I couldn't figure out why the volume was so low so I kept turning it up... turns out my headphones weren't plugged in so everyone in the house heard me listening to this. |
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Post by primsong on Jan 15, 2009 16:27:16 GMT
Daleks have toes and want mistletoe? (reminds me of the "Give us a cuddle!" Dalek - a story worth reading if you haven't found it yet, btw)
The album cover they show to go with it is intriguing all by itself! (Frazer Hines! Jon Pertwee! The Go-Gos!) *laughs*
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 16, 2009 5:26:15 GMT
Oh, the Frazer Hines and Jon Pertwee "songs" are priceless... Ben Templesmith posted some pictures from a one-shot comic he's illustrating on his blog. I can't quite decide if I like his art or not, but it's an interesting style. Speaking of Alan Moore, this one's written by his daughter. |
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 16, 2009 6:32:46 GMT
Aye, everything Whodom and music combine the result are bound to be... interesting.
I think I like the art; personally, I'm majorly impressed by anyone who can draw Tennant's nose.
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Post by jjpor on Jan 17, 2009 3:06:52 GMT
No - don't trust him! He doesn't want more plum pudding and custard - he wants to enslave the universe! I suppose one of those appendages you see whenever a Dalek casing gets broken open *might* be a big toe...
I too quite like the comic art - I like the slight blurriness and the way he draws the characters - he captures the essence of them, I think.
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 17, 2009 6:19:08 GMT
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Post by jjpor on Jan 17, 2009 22:05:20 GMT
Now, that is nice - it makes me want to read this series now; I love his Four in particular. I hope they release this as a paperback. Ben Templesmith did the art for 30 Days of Night, the vampire comic, didn't he? I like his style; it's one of the things that makes the comic better than the (in my opinion) slightly overrated film.
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 18, 2009 23:11:47 GMT
Now, that is nice - it makes me want to read this series now; I love his Four in particular. I hope they release this as a paperback. Ben Templesmith did the art for 30 Days of Night, the vampire comic, didn't he? I like his style; it's one of the things that makes the comic better than the (in my opinion) slightly overrated film. Yes, that's the same guy, although I've not read those. Four in the issue of The Forgotten done by Stefano Martino is actually really dreadful looking but to be fair, it was at very short notice and I'm sure Tom Baker is hellish to draw. Have you seen the documentary about Doctor Who comics on The Time Meddler DVD? |
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Post by jjpor on Jan 19, 2009 23:13:21 GMT
Now, that is nice - it makes me want to read this series now; I love his Four in particular. I hope they release this as a paperback. Ben Templesmith did the art for 30 Days of Night, the vampire comic, didn't he? I like his style; it's one of the things that makes the comic better than the (in my opinion) slightly overrated film. Yes, that's the same guy, although I've not read those. Four in the issue of The Forgotten done by Stefano Martino is actually really dreadful looking but to be fair, it was at very short notice and I'm sure Tom Baker is hellish to draw. Have you seen the documentary about Doctor Who comics on The Time Meddler DVD? I've only read the first series of 30 Days etc. - I believe there are a multitude of sequels and spinoffs which I never bothered with, but that was quite good I think, and the art was a big part of it - very dreamlike and frightening with the snow and the creepy-looking vampires. I'm afraid I don't own the Time Meddler; I saw it years ago on a very fuzzy VHS copy of a copy. Sounds like an interesting extra, though. |
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Post by IMForeman on Mar 8, 2009 1:32:31 GMT
Ooh, I almost forgot about this thread. Forgot. Heh. *cough* Anyway, I heard that a lot of people were disappointed in the last issue of The Forgotten; that's certainly understandable for reasons I will not divulge. I still mostly liked it, though. I don't have it yet but The Whispering Gallery should be out now in fine comic stores across the US as well as online. You can read the first few pages at www.comixology.com/previews/DEC084084/. I looked up two reviews to see what people were saying and the first one said it wasn't very good and the second one said it was, so I'd quite like to see for myself. |
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Post by clocketpatch on Apr 7, 2009 23:18:52 GMT
Well, I've finally got a hold of this, so now you have someone to chat with about it IM. I'm on the episode 5 cliff-hanger though, so please no spoilers.
Crazy, crazy cliffie though. Eep!
And I know what you're talking about with the episode where the art goes dodgy. Four and Five aren't that bad... though Turlough is randomly blond (but that might just be the ink? or the scan quality?) but Tennant's sideburns in that issue are like Whooaa! and I know he HAS strange sideburns, but I've never really NOTICED them before. In that issue he look kind of like Harry. Heh.
That said: anyone who can draw Tennant's nose leaves me majorly impressed. Anyone.
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Post by Stripes on Apr 8, 2009 3:20:41 GMT
I really want to reaad this comic. I read abit of it in a LJ community. so called community has been taken down by LJ and evil comic copyright people.
I have been half looking around for it but I never knew what the title was.
The Whispering Gallery looks like something I would be into.
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