April 1st, 2008
The 10 Doctors - Page 86(the end)
The artist gets sick of keeping up with this mess of a comic.
He ends it.
Okay, joke’s over. I’m not ending the comic! Just an April Fools gag. I had planned to replace the gag page with a new page this morning, but unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to draw one up this week. So it’ll have to wait a little longer. Sorry to those of you who had heart attacks and thanks for playing!
Rich
April 1st, 2008 at 6:18 am
Aaaarrrrcccckkk is so right!
Must be the frist April fool’s joke or something hmmm!!!
Ah well!
Time to regenerate or to do a suequel or prequel!
April 1st, 2008 at 6:27 am
I lol’d.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:33 am
This better be an April Fool’s joke! If not, I’ll draw the rest of the darned comic myself! In crayon if I have to!
April 1st, 2008 at 7:18 am
Hmmmmm… The words “April” and “Fool” spring readily to mind…
April 1st, 2008 at 7:19 am
ROFLMAO!!!
XD
April 1st, 2008 at 7:45 am
BAHAHAHAAA best ending ever!
Although, April Fool’s? Ya rly!
April 1st, 2008 at 7:47 am
LOL
I love how the Doctors are all still recognisable even like this - though I suspect they’d be less so if they weren’t in context and all lined up neatly.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:03 am
Most amusing!
April 1st, 2008 at 8:16 am
I don’t know whether to laugh at or be offended by this April Fool’s Joke.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:20 am
Ba-dum CHING.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:53 am
Oh Lord, please let this be an April Fool’s joke. If not, I’ll set myself on fire and run screaming through the streets of Madison…sorta like Richard Pryor.
Seriously, if you really are planning to end the comic, at least tell us where you were going with it?
April 1st, 2008 at 8:54 am
…
Well, THAT was unexpected…
Good ending.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:56 am
Though the “KILL EVERYTHING” Dalek panel does give me the giggles. “Screw conquering the universe, I just want to kill stuff.” How Dalek-ish.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:56 am
Not funny!
Thats not a topic to take the mick out of!
April 1st, 2008 at 9:02 am
Happy April Fool’s Day to you too.
Now regenerate in COLOR!
April 1st, 2008 at 9:30 am
Ten will always be recognizable by the hair
Happy poisson d’avril, Rich!
April 1st, 2008 at 10:00 am
Bwahahahahaha!
I love it!
April 1st, 2008 at 10:03 am
Remember way back when 7 slammed the lid on Davros’ egg-capsule thing shut and I said you weren’t going to be able to top that for sheer comedy?
I was wrong.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:07 am
Okay… I almost cried.
The relief will be immense if we hear the “april fools!”
April 1st, 2008 at 10:13 am
The LOLZ!
Shoulda had them singing “Never Gonna Give You Up”
April 1st, 2008 at 10:55 am
lol. just about had a panic attack when i saw the words the end next to the link for this page.
But LOL!!!
Happy April fools!
April 1st, 2008 at 10:56 am
I’d managed to get through the day so far without being caught out by any April Fools, but I actually believed this! I felt sad. Thank goodness for some other posters here who are more savvy than me!
“Die old man”….. argh!
Still - even your ‘kill everything!’ ending leaves scope for a sequel - ‘The adventures of Mel and Nyssa after they got left on Terminus just before everyone on or near Earth got killed’
April 1st, 2008 at 10:58 am
PS It’s 4pm GMT - another few hours and I could have made it to bed without being fooled….
April 1st, 2008 at 10:59 am
after this he better have a new page for us tomorrow
April 1st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Its the end, and the moment CLEARLY hasn’t been prepared for….
I KNEW there’d be a consumate, satisfying ending to this epic comic, where everything was neatly pulled together and resolved.
Guess I’ll just delete by bookmark for this series then…. *click*
So long, everybody!
April 1st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Okay. I take it back. You really are a smeghead.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/esn1g/Smilies/jim_shock01.gif
April 1st, 2008 at 12:47 pm
ROCKS FALL! EVERYONE DIES!!!!
I have to say, Rich, your artwork really improved between these last two pages.
April 1st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Dear lord, he got me!! I saw the words “The End” and just about has a heart attack.
Its not often i get had on April Fools day….Gratz!!
April 1st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Personally, I think it was hilarious. I mean…there are the occasional April Fool’s joke things that seem somewhat plausible, that have been known to acutally freak me out–for a MINUTE, until I remember the date–in the past, but this is not one of them. This is CLEARLY a joke. And a good one. I mean, come on, if anything else this is totally _not_ in character for Rich. On some other day of the year it might confuse me a little, but…
Anyway, yeah, the little scribble-Doctors are humourously adorable. And adorably humourous.
“KILL EVERYTHING!” indeed. Sometimes ya just gotta blow stuff up.
…Notorious
April 1st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I had about half a second of SOUL DEATH before I remembered the date.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I like the way you think Bunsen. If the universe has a silver lining, it will always be Nyssa…Gawn. I’m pathetic.
And Rich…Clever way of rebooting the comments section…LOL. It was funny. But I think you should have done something similar to YAFGC, and done a “stick” themed comic. But funny none the less.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I saw the link with “The End”, but I remembered the date. It’s funny.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Good one Rich! The end looms near maybe?
April 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Good one! Heh…I’ve yet to think of an appropriately awful prank to pull on my family. Hmm…
April 1st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I almost had a heart-attack. The whole day I got through without a single prank pulled on me. I can see the daleks just saying “Kill Everything”. BEST ENDING EVER!!!!
April 1st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Poisson d’Avril!
I totally forgot what day it was until now… =P nice try
April 1st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
ROFLMAO!
wow. I love the daleks and the “die old man!”
And yeah, you can still recognise (recognize?) them.
KEWWL!
April 1st, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Say it ain’t so Rich! (winks).
Happy April Fool’s Day, everyone!
April 1st, 2008 at 7:14 pm
THUD
*breathe*
*breathe*
New mantra: “He didn’t mean it…he didn’t mean it…he didn’t mean it”
She goes away quietly sobbing about the nasty trick Rich pulled.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
NNNOOOO! (over the top)
April 1st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Ahh, yes I saw this coming. There have been hints in the subtext since the very beginning. Great work Rich. I’m looking forward to your next project.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:06 pm
I LOVE IT!!! Best strip ever! I freaked out when I saw the words the end though.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Happy April Fool’s to you too! Bet you’ve thought this a few times when real life ganged up on you and it’d been a couple weeks since posting.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Well, you can’t fool me! (I think…)
April 1st, 2008 at 9:47 pm
It’s times like these that I really envy Time Lords. I could use a second heart, since mine just stopped!
April 1st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Pretty good one
:p
April 1st, 2008 at 10:46 pm
*gulp*
One sheer panicked breath, and then a long exhalation as I read comments.
Cheeky man, scaring me like that.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
XD
And thus the Doctor Who universe was rebooted. And retconed. And all of that fun stuff. Happy april fools to you too!
April 1st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Heh. See, and last night I was all, “Well, Rich did a Christmas comic, I wonder if he’ll do an April Fool’s Joke.”
Well played sir.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:43 pm
If this isn’t April Fools, I will be very sad.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 am
I just KNEW Seven’s plan was going to end up this way!
*jeep!
–Grandpa Chet
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:13 am
Nice one! Second April fool’s joke that i’ve believed this April Fool’s day. Even though it’s technically the 2nd of April now. Meh.
Jesus, you gave me a heart attack! Then I saw the date O.O This must be even worse than getting a pin stuck in a voodoo version of yourself! (of course, the Doc had two hearts though…)
I like it
I should have done that to my DW fan friends…i hope it’s not too late, LOL! 
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:19 am
Kevin Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:56 am
Considering the date, I have the strong suspicion that this an April Fools’ Joke, Rich, and I hope to God that you are not serious in the slightest when you wrote “The End”. I’d be rather disappointed if you were being serious as this so-called “end” is far from being an agreeable one and it would be a bit of an infuriating one for fans of this comic such as myself. There isn’t anything particularly good about an ending where the audience is left hanging permanently as this would be the result of this so-called “ending” and so along with everyone else, I hope you provide some confirmation, Rich, that this page was nothing but an April Fools’ Joke to have some fun with the comics’ fans.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 am
And of course Jack would have survived too.
So, for the sequel:
‘DRIFTWOOD - The Adventures of Captain Jack, Mel, and Nyssa of Traken’
Episode 1: ‘Stop Traken About’
Episode 2: ‘Melicide’
etc.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 am
As long as Nyssa’s in it…And Jack better behave. She’s to good for him, anyway.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:57 am
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:49 am
thank goodnes for that
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 am
]Episode 2: ‘Melicide’
Ok, that’s funny!
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:38 am
“Episode 2: ‘Melicide’”
How many people here want that to happen?
-raises hand-
She screams like a banshee.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 am
Melicide HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That’s Really Funny
“Episode 3: Stop meliciding about”
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 am
Could The Doctor play and April fools prank on the First doctor (Love to see the Reaction)
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:42 pm
*smack* Good thing I didn’t check this yesterday, or you would’ve had a dead fan on your hands.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Ciao!
I was already terrorised by this news… Just now that I had finally started my translation in Italian!
Well, now that I have been “fooled”… if you want to have a look at my website here’s the link:http://www.doctorwhoitalia.it/RichComics_01.htm
I linked your website also on my homepage.
I put only the three first pages (the one in colour) and in the next weeks I will continue… By the way… is there a chance to get all the pages in colour sooner or later?
Thank you again for this marvellous opera!
Bravo!
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Great translation, Gabriella!
I was fooled by the rss feed.. it said it was the end!
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I hope the volunteer does color the rest of the pages eventually - some of them I am quite looking forward to seeing colorized! But I enjoy the sketch quality in precolored art too
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Can I just say HURRAH. Thought it was an April fool but very glad I was right! Keep up the fab work….please……
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I’ve just finished reading the archives and this is the best Dr Who fan comic I’ve ever seen. I love the art style too.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 am
Wait a minute … how does this fit into continuity?
April 6th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Just a gag? Thank the Doctor, but… that was cruel… I nearly had a heart attack.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
That was amazing.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Melicide and Pericide. Peri screamed the entire serial in Planet of Fire. And that was her first ever appearance. What a lovely start…
April 21st, 2008 at 7:38 am
LOL I only saw this on April 2nd, along with the REAL page 86, so I didn’t beleive it.
Probably also because of the “JUST KIDDING” thing.
Loooove this comic and can’t wait for more! Cheers!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Just found this comic and I think it’s TERRIFIC!!!! Can’t wait to read more. Great job on the art, you manage to capture the Doctor’s perfectly in your charactures. The story is top notch, fun seeing all the little bits of continuity throughout the 45 years of Who. Thanks for posting it and I look forward to reading more!!
May 12th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
OMG I didn’t even see this before. XD That’s hilarious, well played.
May 25th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Die old man lol!