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Post by Pinwig on Nov 27, 2020 19:23:36 GMT
DWM finally turned up today... along with someone else's stuck to the back of it. Usually when that happens the address is close enough to go and drop it off, but this one is just too far away, so I'll have to put it back in the post tomorrow. Frustrating knowing someone else will be just as annoyed about not getting their ish as we are, but it'll be a while before they do and there's not a lot I can do about it.
Meanwhile, SFX turned up too, boasting a spoilerific cover for the upcoming DW special. What the buggering fuck have they done to the Daleks now!?
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 27, 2020 20:35:44 GMT
Oh we knew about the Daleks a while ago. They are also visible on the BBC promo artwork they've put out for the Special.
Someone needs to have a polite word with Chibbers!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 27, 2020 20:51:04 GMT
Paging Matt Marshall, paging Matt Marshall!
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 27, 2020 21:51:31 GMT
I assumed as this is a magazine cover the new design is a known thing, I've just not been interested enough in the special to follow what's going on with it so it was a bit of a surprise.
To be fair, I don't think anyone could redesign the Daleks without criticism. Impossible task.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 27, 2020 22:13:02 GMT
It's just the one from the new year special painted black, isn't it? Anyway I believe tgere's just ONE of those and the rest are all normal, so I recall from the location photos on the Severn Bridge |
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 27, 2020 22:32:09 GMT
It's just the one from the new year special painted black, isn't it? Similar - but not quite  |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2020 9:27:58 GMT
I assumed as this is a magazine cover the new design is a known thing, I've just not been interested enough in the special to follow what's going on with it so it was a bit of a surprise. To be fair, I don't think anyone could redesign the Daleks without criticism. Impossible task. The redesign done for 2005 onwards has been quite popular. I personally loved the 2010 ones and was sad they went away almost instantly. At least Chibbers is actually promoting the Special as a Dalek story this time, unlike last time. Let's hope it's back on Christmas Day, when everyone could do with a bit of escapism after 2020, unless that idea is too exciting for Chibbers. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 28, 2020 9:29:14 GMT
Same, and we never did find out what the Dalek Eternal was meant to do did we?
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2020 9:31:09 GMT
Not even Big Finish has touched that!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2020 12:33:13 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 6, 2020 10:02:14 GMT
Need to re-read the DWM victorious strip after today's history lessons from Tom!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 12, 2020 11:40:38 GMT
This month's DWM now 4 days late. Guess I'll be buying in a shop again. Last month's was 21 days late...
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 12, 2020 12:59:52 GMT
Interesting... mine was on time this month, with a note in the editorial apologising for last month's lateness.
Magazine subs do seem to be erratic. As said, my 2000ADs have been all over the shop for the last few months. Very late. Sometimes I've only had issues once they've gone off sale in shops.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 12, 2020 13:17:48 GMT
I am not sure what firms are handling the subs distribution for various titles, but i can only assume there will be delays from printers to them and from them to whatever mail service they use.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 12, 2020 16:01:33 GMT
When I had the 2000ad sub it still turned up on time. RM are struggling a bit with the extra load of late.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 13, 2020 10:25:27 GMT
"The girl is a Time Lord. One of the ancient enemies of the Great One. She is to be held for sacrifice at the time of Arising!" This week on Forty Years Of Tom Baker's Doctor we're watching episode 547 State of Decay: Part Four 40yearstombakerdw.blogspot.com/2020/12/547-state-of-decay-part-four.htmlChristmas Break now, 40 Years of Tom Baker's Doctor is back 3rd Jan with Warrior's Gate Part One! I also realised in reliving the past I ought to be having a look at the DWM issues of the time too. #48 went on sale on Friday 40 years ago. That's a unique issue in my collection because although DWM was delivered by the local newsagent, that issue never arrived and I had to get a copy from a central hall comic mart years later Oddly, I remember #47 arriving through the letterbox. I was off school ill at the time and the Troughton cover has always stuck with me because I remember Mum giving me the issue to cheer me up. |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 16, 2020 13:39:49 GMT
Current DWM: 7 days late. Last DWM: 21 days late. Sod this. I'm cancelling and going back to getting it at the shop!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 16, 2020 14:03:18 GMT
Mine turned up today
It's not just you, everyone's having delays at the mo.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 16, 2020 15:45:34 GMT
Everything else turns up. Voting with wallet and cancelled sub. It's a lot less stressful just getting it when food shopping and the mags don't have big rips in them too.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 16, 2020 21:35:08 GMT
The covers are so poor these days they actually look better with the text on anyway.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 11, 2021 19:43:15 GMT
I'm quite excited by the prospect of a WALLCHART and FREE NEW TARGET BOOK with the next DWM. I wonder what that's all about.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 11, 2021 20:10:59 GMT
I'm still waiting on the current issue!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 11, 2021 20:21:18 GMT
Mine only turned up Saturday
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2021 20:29:34 GMT
I'm really intrigued by DWM's claim they're giving away a new and exclusive Target novel. Surely not a full blown TV story novelisation? I know they gave away Target books before, but that was just a warehouse clearance exercise. A proper new Target book? I would be really impressed by that. Seems fishy to me. The only TV 20th century story that hasn't had a novelisation is DIMENSIONS IN TIME... -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 13, 2021 21:18:30 GMT
Hmm. Yes.
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I was more hoping perhaps more than seven had been commissioned and DWM have snagged a spare one, a new series episode. However I can't escape the feeling there's some trick to this.
SFX used to do a lot of cheap paperbacks as freebies though. It's not impossible. Oh unless this is another £10 issue, that would cover a paperback.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2021 21:30:41 GMT
It is a £10 issue.
Could it be a reissue of THE PARADISE OF DEATH?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 13, 2021 22:12:53 GMT
I don't think a reissue can count as new and exclusive?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2021 7:04:09 GMT
If it has a new cover and is a new printing it would.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 14, 2021 15:47:48 GMT
Maybe it's The Ultimate Foe?
DARE TO DREAM!!!!
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 31, 2021 22:44:43 GMT
I see the Smiths bookazine line has been rebooted into a series examining 'landmark' years in the series, starting with 1965. Which is nicely vague enough to avoid saying whether this is going to cover every year, or as many as the series manages before the buyers get bored and they try something else. merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctor-who-chronicles-1965-bookazine/Do I need any more of these? Year by year is more appealing than some of the mad themes they were doing with those books but I dunno if I need more on the pile. |
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