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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 16, 2015 17:05:43 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2015 17:32:12 GMT
A complete set of Pixley archives in book form? Sold!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 16, 2015 17:45:29 GMT
Hachette again. Identical format to the Dredd books. 80 in the set again too. I would only be interested in that if the content was being revised and expanded, but even then only the classic stuff. No point rebuying all the new series special edition DWM issues.
I think for the frequency with which I reread those archive articles I'd be fine keeping with my original magazines.
Infact to be honest that kind of stuff these days would work better as a well organised database driven website. Something properly queryable. Ie not a wiki.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 20, 2015 16:32:43 GMT
Copies secured an on their way to the Death Fortress |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 5, 2015 7:14:19 GMT
Burns: your copies of the first two are sitting in Turnbull Towers with other items. Issue 4 is now out, the last of the trial run. Covers the first three stories. Apparently it's rather good..... |
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 5, 2015 21:09:34 GMT
Is the text being updated in these? or are they just reprints? (presumably with new layouts as the originals will be a bit dated by now?)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 5, 2015 21:35:03 GMT
Text has been updated to included the amendments noted in the specials. Don't have my DWMs to hand to check the Colony-Day archives but the Tennant ones in v1 were a direct lift from the special.
Worth a look when it goes nationwide.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 5, 2015 22:29:05 GMT
Realistically I should be getting these and not the dredd books as they'd get more use and it really would be the definitive making of series. But I don't want to have to buy all the new series volumes too. I'd never read them.
I guess I'll make do with my DWM collection and the archive index poster given away a year or so back.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 8, 2015 10:38:25 GMT
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Post by primenova on Jul 8, 2015 11:32:13 GMT
Are they just reusing the history features from the Fig collections in this new release? I've got about 34 issues of that & also guide books for the '80's which cover everything & Dr Who mag always does the features.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 8, 2015 11:32:09 GMT
Oh noooooooooooo.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 8, 2015 11:53:22 GMT
Are they just reusing the history features from the Fig collections in this new release? I've got about 34 issues of that & also guide books for the '80's which cover everything & Dr Who mag always does the features. It's a reprint of the Pixley archives, with updated info, plus New Series specials. I've got the first two from the trial. What did you think of the two I sent you Ralph? |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 8, 2015 17:38:53 GMT
Only had time to skim them so far.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 12, 2015 8:04:55 GMT
Interestingly that link doesn't work now. Did originally. I'm still trying to get my head round this, so if they're using an identical format for this to the Dredd books, which makes sense for printing purposes, that's a lot of pages in each book, and only three stories covered? I know the Pixley articles were chunky ones, but do three articles really fill the books? I would have thought to make this definitive there is a lot of other material that could be included from the years and years of DWM articles. Fact of Fiction for a start. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 21, 2015 12:23:09 GMT
Some people I know have copies and are describing it as poor. I await the Miwk version. |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 21, 2015 16:39:53 GMT
I may hold off.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 2, 2015 17:05:02 GMT
Interesting article on the new part work in the current DWM. I think in a roundabout way it's saying that Andrew Pixley isn't working on it, but the guy who is is basically combining the newer info published in the Doctor special editions with the original Archive articles and sprucing everything up. The only stuff being re-written from the ground up is the Eccleston season.
I have long wanted to see the Archive articles published properly, but now the chance to get exactly that is here I'm still in two minds. My biggest problem is knowing that only 46 of the 80 books cover the classic period. There are more Matt Smith books than there are Tom Baker, and much as I like both periods of the show's history I can't see myself reading 34 books about the last ten years, especially when the content is already neatly presented in all the special editions. If I could take out a subscription just for the classic volumes I'd do it. Pity these things don't stay in newsagents all the way through the run.
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Post by blueshift on Sept 2, 2015 17:50:15 GMT
Interesting article on the new part work in the current DWM. I think in a roundabout way it's saying that Andrew Pixley isn't working on it, but the guy who is is basically combining the newer info published in the Doctor special editions with the original Archive articles and sprucing everything up. The only stuff being re-written from the ground up is the Eccleston season. I have long wanted to see the Archive articles published properly, but now the chance to get exactly that is here I'm still in two minds. My biggest problem is knowing that only 46 of the 80 books cover the classic period. There are more Matt Smith books than there are Tom Baker, and much as I like both periods of the show's history I can't see myself reading 34 books about the last ten years, especially when the content is already neatly presented in all the special editions. If I could take out a subscription just for the classic volumes I'd do it. Pity these things don't stay in newsagents all the way through the run. Oh, it's printed Archives, but Pixely isn't involved? Hmmmmmmmm. I was wondering what was actually going to be inside them. |
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 2, 2015 18:02:19 GMT
A lot of the article is an interview with Pixley about his Archive features. He does say in it, "In an ideal parallel universe I'd be able to work on these full time, but... writing is my hobby around a day job, and it's not practical for me at present. But I like to be in there, offering updates and refinements wherever possible." So you can read that both ways. He may be contributing bits, but it's John Ainsworth who is putting it all together.
The content appears to be the Archive features expanded with the material from all the special editions. Which I suppose is as close as we'll ever come to having a definitive 'Making of' collection. It's a very good idea, I think it's brilliant they're doing this. The books are also guaranteed to be good quality because they're the same format as the current Judge Dredd collection, and the quality of those is top notch. Really nice hardback books. It's tempting for sure. I'd probably have to give up the Dredd ones though to get these and I've been enjoying that series a lot.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 2, 2015 19:36:52 GMT
I am tempted but I would have to drop some other things to afford it. The super sub includes extra HC graphic novels too!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 11, 2015 23:52:30 GMT
The Hachette Partwork series has launched nationwide. I must stop looking at the enhanced subscription option.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 12, 2015 10:28:18 GMT
I am quite proud of myself on this front. I saw the first part in Smiths this morning while picking up issue 8 of the comic, and turned away. Yes, Mr 'complete lack of resistance in the face of any shiny new collection' actually didn't buy it.
(But I may get issue 2 just to see what they've done to the older archive articles).
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 12, 2015 10:40:05 GMT
I've got the trial copy of two and it's very nice.
I think one of the problems here is there are a lot of people who just want the classic series volumes.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 12, 2015 10:49:00 GMT
Yep. If I could just sub to those, I'd be in. I've got absolutely no need whatsoever to rebuy the last few years of season specials in hardback. I'd never read them. 34 x £9.99 books I don't need? nah. That's enough for Warbotron's next combiner.
It would have been nice if the feedback from the trial had made that clear to them - if it's one classic and one modern series book a month then they should offer different subscriptions - both or one or the other. I'd buy a classic book a month for a tenner as a separate subscription option. I'm pretty sure they'd sell far more books that way.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2015 11:38:59 GMT
But it's all the same show.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 12, 2015 12:07:53 GMT
Don't get me started.
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Post by blueshift on Sept 12, 2015 12:55:56 GMT
I'd assume the opposite, that most people will buy it for the new show info, as you know, the new show is popular and Classic who is a niche.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 12, 2015 14:33:49 GMT
Yep, there's that approach too, which is why I would imagine the new show accounts for almost half of the collection. Although where are we now in terms of number of old stories vs number of new ones? it must be a narrowing gap. That's why I think they've missed a trick not offering multiple subscription options. I guess it's a side effect of the nature of the way they do the numbers for printing.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2015 21:36:29 GMT
You've lost me, sorry. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 12, 2015 21:41:25 GMT
It is the same show, yes, but at the same time to me personally it isn't. And trying to explain that isn't worth the pain and effort because I can't make it make sense to me, let alone anyone else.
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