May 12th, 2008
The 10 Doctors - Page 91
The Valeyard pretends to be a legitimate future incarnation of the Doctor to lure the 1st Doctor into a trap. A teleport module which he programs to fly into the dying sun of Proammon and disables the navigational circuit before transmatting back to Gallifrey.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Fantastic, Rich. Keep it up!
May 12th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
D’oh! Yeah, he won’t be “tut-tutting” at 10’s hair now…
Love the new page!
May 12th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I have to say– seeing an update to this series always makes my day!
May 12th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I dearly love this story.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Wow… the First Doctor went into a great Doctor Smith imitation there. I keep expecting to hear the Tardis computer announce “Danger Will Hartnell! Danger! Danger!”
May 12th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Oh no! Not One! The Valeyard better get what’s coming to him.
This is getting so exciting, I can’t wait for the next part. Thank you so much for making this. Your art is beautiful and the plot is pure genius. Thank you, thank you.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Quick!!! Reverse the polarity of the nutron flow!!!…What?… It works for 3.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Oh wow, you updated the same night I re-read the whole thing. What a lovely surprise! The Doctor will be able to get out of this mess. I mean, how anticlimactic would it be if they all just DIED? The end. No more comic. XD Still, despite this knowledge, I’m still on the edge of my seat.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Oh no! Poor One, I’m sure he’ll figure something out! He’s the Doctor, after all
May 12th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Proammon’s star? As in Kane, Iceworld etc?
Brilliant, I hope that the Doctor fixes the TARDIS he’s in with a convenient Dragon’s Fire.
Fantastic comic.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Oh crap.
More please?
May 13th, 2008 at 1:25 am
I love this *so goddamn much!*
Especially the expression on One’s face. Heheh. Okay, it’s only funny because we know he’s not really going to die. But I doubt most of the other incarnations of the Doctor would have fallen for something quite so blunt. He’s young, inexperienced, and just screwed up real bad. And is going to look damned silly if/when the other Doctors find out.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:43 am
That last panel?
“Sad Doctor in the heart of an exploding sun.”
May 13th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Proammons Star? Is that where Kane (Dragonfire) came from? Nice idea.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Oh, dear–I am so Late!! So late. But I’m glad to be joining the queue. What a quandry you presented to Dr #10 in the previous posting! Wrenched my heart even though it wasn’t totally unexpected. So cool to see him wearing the glasses! Like what others have said in the past 90 pages–you know the characters so well and it shows! Bloody MARvelous! I love the way you’re doing this and I love the complexity! Alas, too few shows require any intelligence. You can see what’s going to happen from a mile away. Ho, hum. And your sense of humor! Rocks, as the youngsters say. (Sly dog! The Grace/Romana kiss after all that controversy about a “female doctor”! Yowsie! Such finesse! I salute you and your Muse!) Like you, I am an old Whovian (been watching since the early 1980s) and I understand everything you have said about the new series. Yet I still watch it. Sometimes moaning/groaning. Sometimes cheering. Every show has its good episodes and bad episodes. The new Who series hasn’t come anywhere near Spock’s Brain yet.
So I’m going to be waiting patiently here. Oh-Happy mother’s day to Hilary!
P.S. I found my way here via a link at livejournal. I’m going to spread the word to the Who fans I know. Ta, Ta!
May 13th, 2008 at 3:06 am
*Gasp* Not the first doctor! I hope someone rescues him! Can he get out Rich?
May 13th, 2008 at 3:29 am
What if the first doctor uses the only trick he can?He needs to pull a few levers to pull the time capsule out of time and space,its the only way he can do it to avoid the star,that means he’ll be trapped but at least it might give him time to make repairs. The Watcher did the same thing in Logopolis. He pulled the tardis out of time and space.The first doctor can do the same! Sorry rich if I multiposted just thought of how the first doctor can get out of the situation.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Just one minor nitpick - would the 1st Doctor really use the word ‘gotten’? It’s an Americanism, the word ‘gotten’ is also a bit of an oxymoron. If you shorten that word to ‘got’, it’s also just as sufficient and more grammaticality correct. The line should read ‘what have I got myself into?’
May 13th, 2008 at 3:56 am
I’m just glad nobody said ‘Die old man’……
May 13th, 2008 at 4:36 am
Well, the navigation system is damaged, but how’s the temporal system? Just spitballing…
Great page, as always. I’m hearing the cliffhanger music again on this one.
May 13th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Wonder if Drax’ll do for 1 as he did for 9.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:39 am
I think that Johnny Q is right and wrong about “gotten”. Someone British (or Gallifreyan
) definately wouldn’t say it. But I don’t think that it is an Americanism as such. It would have been used in Britain when America was first colonised. The British stopped used it a very long time ago (though it is possible that some regional dialects may well still use it, I’m not sure).
May 13th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Hooray! Two pages on one day! The Keeper is also the Doctor? Is he the Valeyard i’ve been hearing about?
Keep it up, Rich! You’re doing FANTASTIC-ly! I know you’re getting this a lot, but it’s true!
I hope 1 finds a way to save himself…or gets saved. Eep!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Is it wrong that I root for the Valeyard and totally did a “HA! BOO-YA!!”?
It is, isn’t it? Saying ‘boo-ya’ is a terrible, terrible thing to do.
Still, he didn’t gloat, that was nice of him. He must of caught up on the Evil Overlord List since last time.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Sean- don’t you mean Nine?
No! One!
I hope Nine will save One.
I miss Nine.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:08 am
ch1ps
yes and technically no.
The Keeper is the Valeyard, but is only a possible future incarnation . Basically the time Lords took parts of the Doctor’s bad (dark) sideand created the Valeyard.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Meep! Poor Doctor. He’s really in trouble now.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Oh, my, seems The First Doctor’s in a sticky wicket, eh? But we know he’ll do something remarkable, won’t we? He’s been in worse scrapes than this, and we’ll probably get out of it. Or something unexpected will happen. You never really know with The Doctor.
And, btw, never you mind about Hitbob, you’re comic’s great! As I said before, it captures the real quality of why we watched Doctor Who in the first place. No matter which Doctor we first encountered.
As for me, it was Tom Baker in the Sunmakers of Pluto.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Aw, one looks so sweetly worried. It’s easy to forget that he’s the youngest one sometimes.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:10 am
yay!!!!!
May 14th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Gorram it, I miss one day of checking the site, and there’s not one, but TWO updates in that time. I’m off to the next page and read the #92 now. (BTW, I agree with Johnny Q about “gotten”. It’s one of the words that jumped out at me when I first moved to America as being a distinctly “foreign” word to me.
May 14th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Let’s see…One is stuck in the path of an exploding star…Two and Seven are with the Rani and Glitz…Three and Five are stuck with the Master…Four is DOA…Six is working with the Daleks…Last I remember, Eight is with Leeta and K9…Nine is off somewhere with Drax…and Ten is in violent conversation with the Monk.
The way I see it, the inly ones with even the slightest chance to rescue One are Nine and…heck, Nine. Unless you bring back Four for a heroic appearance. And that’s assuming that it has to be the Doctor who rescues himself. There are still dozens of other characters who could show up in the nick of time. We haven’t seen the Companions for a while.
Rich, am I right in thinking that this series is drawing to a climax? If so, congratulations on finishing what only a few people complete. Once you get this finished, you should try to sell this to a publisher! It’s that good!
May 14th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
DOA? Now now, let’s not be pessimistic. Let’s just say he’s…MIA.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Big apologies over the multi-post, but I forgot to ask: is the Valeyard using that transport dingus that the Master used in “the Five Doctors”? I once heard someone call it “the Chocolate Coin of Rassilon”.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Am I really the first to comment on “we have very little time to delay”…?
That’s a *great* Billyfluff! Love the details in this strip.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
*New page new page new page* (jumps up and down)
May 15th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Kat-Klingon: Ah, i thought as much. Thank you for clearing that up
What does DOA and MIA mean? Also, i forgot to add: the Keeper has lost his creepy look from the previous page…which is even more creepy. D’oh! He looks younger than he did to the 8th Doctor…or is this the Keeper from the 1st Doctor’s Gallifrey? So confusing!
May 15th, 2008 at 3:41 am
I think I just confused myself. Ignore the last question. What I mean is why the Keeper looks younger than he did to the 8th Doctor?
May 15th, 2008 at 10:44 am
ch1ps - I think it’s just Rich’s artwork settling down. I think panel 2 looks most like Michael Jayston (the actor who played the Valeyard).
May 15th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
DOA= dead on arrival
MIA= missing in action.