Keep it up! ^_^

And it’s Pompeii all over again! The Doctor can possibly change the course of history and save Gallifrey! Let’s just hope he remembers what Sarah Jane said in “School Reunion”.

And the Valeyard…. He looks… well, he looks a little strange. He looks like that one guy you know who used to go to school with you and he won’t leave you alone… I hate those guys… I think it’s because you drew him without the hat he had earlier.

I can practically hear Ten in this scene. Your dialogue is brilliant!

Anyway, your last couple pages, and the whole comic for that matter, have been amazing.
And panel 6 is pretty much made of win.

Keep up the great work!

Anyway, still amazing. And the Valeyard! I truly adore the Valeyard and I can’t wait to see what evil he’ll cause. Your art of the 10th Doctor is just amazing.

Thank you so much for another great page.

You really do such a good job with capturing Ten. Which is not to say you don’t do a good job with the others - they’re all excellent! But I have a particular soft spot for Ten.

Cheers.

@Rich: Hi there! Wow! I’m glad I was able to encourage appreciation of the Classic series! You’re too kind!

@me: Well, it’s just the truth! I’m really enjoying and loving it! (both Classic Doctor Who and the comic :P) I even started to listen some Big Finish audioepisodes on my iPod while I’m going to work! aahhh nice stuff to pass time hehe and when I’m arrived it’s funny ’cause there’s always the cliffhanger and I’m left with curiosity! ah! XD so, *Thank you*!
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@Rich: Weak points, eh? I’d love to hear your critique, really. What parts do you not like? Personally I’m not too fond of the bit where the 9th Doctor freaks out and goes after the Rani. But I needed to blow up some of the TARDISes. I may rework that part someday.

@me: That’s precisely one of the points! And now I see, it was for plot purposes.
Then there’s Rose, she’s just too bitchy.. hilarious but bitchy! I don’t know, it doesn’t feel right in some parts but I guess it was “for the lulz”! XD
Another one it’s about Five, maybe I got it wrong, it seems you’re trying to give every doctor a big part to play the hero but in his case I feel he’s a little left out. I mean, he just agrees (or not) and worries! XD I saw very little of him (I find him a bit dull °_°) so can’t really say if it’s his persona.. uhm, you’ve probably some big twist in your sleeve for him.. or maybe not because you “hate” him! XD
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@Rich: Keeping track of everything isn’t as hard as it sounds, actually. But it may not be a sign of genius so much as insanity. It’s a fine line, they say.

@me: eh! It’s a constant struggle.. but I’m betting on the genius one!
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@Rich: You’re English is FINE! You’re certainly easier to understand than a lot of English speakers I know! Thank you for dropping a line!

@me: Now *you* are too kind! hehe

You know, I was going to ask you if Maxil had died O_o And here is the answer, scary. You read your readers minds confess! XD Anyway, it would be interesting a meeting between six and him XD do you have something in mind about it?

Aw man, the Valeyard *punches him* XD

Salutes from work!
La Donzella

Nooooooooo!

I suppose at least the Valeyard can’t just shoot him - after all, he is a future regeneration of the First Doctor, of sorts…

I hope this doesn’t mean, that we are nearing the end - I would sooo miss this comic.

Me too am going to cheer to the Doctor: CHANGE IT; CHANGE IT; CHANGE IT!!!

The Valyard. Eh, What? One’s being hit with a time stick! Hmmmph!

Fantastically Brilliant!!!!!

I’m also tres amused at how your Master is kind of this little _pixie_ version of Ainley/Delgado, only younger looking. Heh. I’m guessing I probably would’ve liked him had this version ever quite been on the show. (My favourite Master is Delgado, but seeing as how I’m such a fan of Three’s era, that’s not so surprising.)

And this page! Ten’s expressions are just so HIM, and everything about the way he looks/is acting in panel five is perfect beyond words. The expression, the hair, the glasses, the freckles, the suit…
And you know what? I am such a geek, that I was also actually happy that Maxil isn’t dead. Yay! (I like Os’s idea for how the Doctor could “revive” him (snicker).) And the Meddling Monk is back. And One looking strangely cool in those ridiculous robes–a trick almost nobody else in the universe can manage…
Not to mention, the plot has thickened in like the best possible way in THE HISTORY OF EVER. Oh man. I know you can’t _really_ prevent the Time War and save Gallifrey but that part of the new series bugs me so much…I mean, of course in a fan publication it’s not _canon_, but seeing an unofficial thing where things turn out okay after all _in a plausible, well-written way_ can cheer me right the heck up.

One last thing: I hate to be pedantic, but the parallell universes in “Inferno” and “Age of Steel” cannot possibly be the same one. Why not? Well, life on Earth…kind of didn’t make it past 1970, in the Inferno universe…(shudders.) And it came within _seconds_ of being wiped out here, too! Brr…
If you don’t know what I mean, go see it/again. (I mean everybody, not just you, Rich.) That is one dark-arse story, especially for its oldschool time period. But in a _good_ way.

Shutting up finally…

…Notorious

I love the way you’ve caught the essence of the First Doctor’s speech patterns - that slightly bumbling, “I’ve forgotten my lines and we can’t afford too many takes” feel to his dialogue.

I also laughed when between being handed the data spool and finding somewhere to examine it, he lost his robes and put on his glasses. Because they help him think!

Captain Chaotica: And if the Valeyard was from the ‘Inferno’ universe, he’d have to have an eyepatch, right? Or he’d be good. Since it seems like the good and evil characters were reversed. Though there were reasons for that… Anyway.

I love this page the way -poor 10! To have the chance to save his people, and thousands of other species and planets in his hands, and not to be able to use it bcs of a technicality! Honestly, if he doesnt try to use it, I don’t know how he’d be able to live with himself. All he hung onto as the 9th Doctor and sometimes as 10, is that he tried, he tried, to save everyone, and in the end, all he could do to save the universe was destroy his own people along with the Daleks. If that’s not true anymore, if he could have saved them….and doesnt… I dont see how anyone could cope.

It’s not like 20,000 people or the Earth, it’s thousands of planets in the universe if he prevents the war from escalating. While normally I’d say size of comparable disasters is irrelevent - in this case it’s just too huge not to try to save everyone.

And the Valeyard makes an appearance at last! You know, I always thought he should have gone after the First Doctor instead of the Sixth. Since he’s part of the Doctor’s future, it would be no more of a paradox than going after the Sixth. Plus, he’d get the full twelve regenerations instead of just the seven that Six had left!

Keep up the good work!!!!!!!

We are in sooooo much trouble guys!

And I only check by twice a day now!!

Thanks

This has turned out to be a groovy day; new webcomic page, Schroedinger’s Cat perfume from BPAL, and other nice surprises. So I thought I’d give you a nice surprise as well, and share this funny image with you:

http://redplanetblog.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/25/loldoctor_dalek.png

And the Meddling Monk surviving the Time War? That’s an even scarier concept than the Master getting out alive!

Hmm. Ponderous! Eight gets data. Eight prevents Time War. Eight doesn’t regenerate. Probably goes off and does fun Eight stuff. Doesn’t meet Rose, but she still wouldn’t die because the Nestene Consciousness wouldn’t have invaded Earth thanks to no Time War. She’d probably have a really crappy life. Mickey would never grow a spine and become an awesome action spy hero. Jack would’ve still been a con artist. (I’m assuming that the Time War accounted for the Chula ship, so the Earth’s okay.) No Bad Wolf. No Torchwood. Martha would become a doctor. The Master would still be out of the picture because the Time Lords never revived him. Maybe. He is the Master, after all…
And Donna would either be an intern or sacrificed to the Racnoss. Ouch. Oh yeah! No new series two means that Satan’s still at large, too. Huh.

Is it weird that I imagine Eight going to a bunch of chic clubs and stuff? And maybe a few dressy balls and concerts.

Eventually Eight’d regenerate into…a non-angsty Nine?!? Ack! I wonder if non-angsty Nine would still wear black leather?

Oh, has the plot ever thickened! After “Fires of Pompeii” this hits home. The one thing the Doctor can’t do, and the means to doing it has dropped into his palm.

EEEEEE!

…yick.

Let’s just say–without dwelling too much over the gruesome details–that I just kind of assumed the Docctor who was native to the “Inferno” universe didn’t show up because he…couldn’t. Vicious paranoids + non-working TARDIS? Yerk.
On the other hand, that’s ONE way to avoid the “having two totally identical things in the same universe makes everything go flooey because you can’t _add_ matter or energy to a closed universe”, problem… (They seemed to be referencing this, when the Doctor said he couldn’t even _try_ to take any of them back with him. “Don’t you understand? I’d give _anything_ to save you all!” Oh dear…sniff.)

Lordo350: I try not to watch long things on YouTube anyway, since the picture is so small and the quality so poor–it’s not worth it. I normally use YouTube only for things like short humour clips and clever music videos, that kind of thing. Whole episodes? I’d start tearing my hair out after a bit.

Anyway.

…Notorious

I am thoroughly engrossed.

No problem, as long as everything is battened down properly. Let’s do the Davies again!

I just hope the Valeyard bites the dust in some particularly brutal way; there is absolutely nothing to like about the entire TRIAL OF A TIME LORD mess except for a few brief moments in MYSTERIOUS PLANET when Colin Baker actually understands Robert Holmes’ characterization of the Doctor at a few points in the script. (”Clever, eh? That bit with the umbrella…?” “Now, will you please stop poking me, young man?”)

And now we wait for page 91…

LOVE IT!

Ooh, no! The first doctor doesn’t know that isn’t the Keeper…um, is he? I’m not a classic-who watcher…Is this the Keeper that the 8th Doctor met?

That’s just like 10 to toss off his robes and put on his ‘brainy-specs’! Hooray! A speck of happiness on this depressing day! Thank you Rich! This comic always makes me 100x happier! (and makes me hyperventilate to some degree whenever i see the number change. heh, i’m actually beginning to annoy my friend whenever i do that)

…nant

yay!!

I understand the alternate universe Rose is trapped? in has no Doctor– I understad RTD has said so. So it is concevible the ‘Inferno’ universe had/has no Doctor Come to think of it there didn’t appear to be an alternate Doctor in E-Space either *(Four). So itv would seem there is only one Doctor in One universe.

…Notorious

E-space was a bit of an oddity, it was described as the part of the universe with negative coordinates I seem to remember, so it was an odd sort of subsection of this one almost subverse as it where. It dosen’t realy hold up to close examination.

On your earlier comment I think that the Time Lords and Gallifrey are unique across parallel universes only existing in the one, so there wasn’t one in the Inferno universe to be exiled to earth. Even if there was a Doctor in that universe I doubt he would be exiled to an earth where he would be killed on arrival, as that would be stupid even for the Time Lords :-). Also the reason the Doctor couldn’t save anybody from the Inferno universe was that he only had the Tardis console with barely enough power to get him and it back home

We also don’t have to worry about versions of the same character from parrallel univeres exploding when they meet, as Mickey and Rickey existed quite happily together. Ok they didn’t explode anyway.!

Also, watch the Donna spoilers for those of us relying on the CBC for our whofix.

“Yeah, but then Ricky bit it, which reminds me of the “one of the doubles is doomed” rule from Bender’s Big Score.”

Fantastic movie, that was. My housemate and I make endless “paradox resolved!” and similar jokes whenever we watch DW now

Love panel 5, the close up Ten complete with nerd glasses.

You really seem to capture the essence of each incarnation so well!!

None of the new episodes have even been shown here in Canada yet (and CBC is supposed to be a co-producer?!! Darn hockey playoffs).

Anyway, great story. 10 is looking more like himself every time!

However, it’d fair more practical if the Valeyard somehow either seizes control of the First Doctor, or holds him hostage, preventing the other Doctors from interfering with whatever he’s got cooking up. Perhaps I’ve been watching Doctor Who too long, or either hanging round the Seventh Doctor too much.

Meanwhile unknown to anyone, my Toon ChronoScope’s had a nasty hiccup and I’m getting an hybrid episode of the original Sabrina animated series, spliced in with The Second Doctor and the Groovie Ghoolies.

Hadn’t had much oddity like this since I tried recording an episode of the First Doctor over an episode of Beetlejuice, and eeriely the conversations actually synched with the episode, you haven’t lived till you’ve heard The First Doctor sound like the ghost-with-the-most.

Great episode, nonetheless, now then I’d better run since I’ve once again snatched the Tenth Doctor’s last slice of cheesecake.

Doctor #10: My cheesecake! [lunges after me] Why you little….

Whoops! TTFN!

Do you mean that you don’t want spoilers? I know that Ten hasn’t even met Martha in the comic, i was just referring to building a shrine like the one at the very end of the episode.

Having just discovered the Big Finish Productions and having developed a liking to the character Charly Pollard I would have liked to see her in this but that doesn’t fit your continunity, a shame.

One question. To what degree do you have this story already plotted? Is there basically a general direction to a specific ending with twists that you think of to fill as you go along or are you flying from the seat of your pants as it were?

Either way it is quite a bit of fun and a pleasure, thanks muchly. Might want to check with you about an e-mail interview for our company’s blog.

Some more Doctor!

Five & Three now Ten! I wondered when the latter would make another appearance.

And One, too!

I’ve been without internet for a week and this is great to see when I finally get on (we moved…it’s getting installed on tuesday).

Are you gonna have a stab at drawing Gwen and the rest of the Torchwood gang at some point in the future Ruch?

For a start, I know it’s difficult and seems harmless, but please please please be careful when posting details about episodes people haven’t seen yet.

La Donzella: I don’t know, LD, she got pretty nasty in some episodes when she got unreasonably jealous. I really think her and Ace would quickly have gotten on eachothers’ nerves!
As for the 5th Doctor, I don’t have a hate on for him or any of them. I’ve been playing him as the reasonable one. He calms the others or goads them to action when they start to get wrapped up in themselves. I think it’s a noble position to have. They’ll all get their chances in the spotlight, though. You’ll see.

JustAWanderer: Actually the Valeyard(as the Keeper) appeared earlier in the scene where the 8th Doctor is investigating the time distortions.

Ben: The Valeyard’s eyes are just open real wide as he acts friendly to the 1st Doctor. Not meant to look like a zombie. Sorry bout that. And this is the Monk pre-Time War, he just knows something bad is going to happen and wants the Doctor to save all their asses.

DarthHoob: Hehehe, actually the 4th Doctor is *MY* Doctor. I’m saving him for the coolest segments.

P.Ingemi: I have the whole story figured out, actually. I know how it’s going to end, which Doctors will do what (more or less) and various actions sequences and intereactions. In some cases, actual dialogue is already decided on. However, I have not planned or scripted out everything and most sequences are improvised totally as I draw them. That makes it truely character driven and fresh and exciting. Sometimes the Doctors surprise me and make it impossible for a planned scene to happen, so I have to alter them to fit the current events. It’s quite entertaining. But it does mean that anything I have figured out could change without notice. As has happened a few times already.

The Creeping Spleen: Probably not, Spleen. I’m not a huge fan of Torchwood (in the sense that I haven’t watched more than an episode or two, nor am I likely to have the time, so I have no idea what it’s all about).
This is a Doctor Who fan comic and references to Torchwood will be peripheral only.

Thank you very much for all the kind comments and encouragement! Keep reading! More to come!

Lordo350
try: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tombakerroks
for tom baker episodes

Without a doubt, this is bloody brilliant.

Rich, I imagine that you’re making this up as you go along. Nevertheless, everything seems to be hanging together. That in itself is a truly-incredible achievement. Add to that the quality of the artwork, and the brilliance of the characterisation (the Ace vs Rose bitchiness is sublime)….. why the hell are you doing this for fun?! Seriously, if none of the people who publish Dr Who comics professionally (what is it? Four of them now?) have enquired about this strip so far, then it’s a crying shame.

Mind you, no Jeremy Fitzoliver as yet……

Anyhow, FAQ and that sort of thing would be ideal in the forum…. perhaps Rich or Heather might include a link to the forum, 10 Doctors Roundtable, below each page description, as they go on. Then we can have real fan discussions and let things take off.