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Post by Pinwig on Aug 12, 2023 23:08:16 GMT
DWM is another publication that has become subject to the 'bung it on a pile' approach to filing in my old bedroom, like 2000AD had, so I spent a few hours today putting everything into order and working out which specials I've got. Again, all drawn together it's a collection that takes up a lot of space. Not as much as tooth, but I'm not sure this is one I can keep in it's entirety. The problem is one of working out a point at which to cut it off. There are over a hundred specials as well as the regular issues.
What is amazing is that the new format relaunch for the Eccleston series in Jan 2005 was issue 351, and we're now nearly at 600. Doesn't seem right somehow.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 13, 2023 8:45:51 GMT
I only keep key issues now and some of the Specials. No room!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 13, 2023 11:10:11 GMT
This is one that would work as a digital archive. I think I'd be happy with the Panini era stuff as proper indexable computer files as opposed to actual print copies. Then I'd keep the Marvel era stuff for nostalgia reasons. I found my UNIT membership card yesterday, the one that you could send away for back in the days of Doctor Who Weekly to decode secret UNIT messages each week. I am UNIT member 1823.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 13, 2023 20:12:13 GMT
As you are a member then you can explain UNIT dating.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 13, 2023 20:13:11 GMT
This is one that would work as a digital archive. I think I'd be happy with the Panini era stuff as proper indexable computer files as opposed to actual print copies. Same. I am mostly a print person but for things like this a digital archive would be good. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 13, 2023 20:21:33 GMT
As you are a member then you can explain UNIT dating. -Ralph I can but you don't have the security clearance to know. Geneva say so. |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 13, 2023 20:33:23 GMT
I'm not sure I've got it in me to bin the magazines because I've been collecting them since 1979; it's a core thread through my life, but I've been trying to work out a cut off. 236 in Feb 1996 was where Marvel was bought by Panini, during the hype for the movie. The last issue of 1999 was the last one to be published with the Marvel name, 285. But then I did like the new format/design introduced in 2005 when the new series came in in the 350s. Maybe it should be where the old archive series finished. Dunno.
But I think TV Zone and DWB are going first. Big pile of those to sort next.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 13, 2023 20:43:26 GMT
Out of curiosity - does anyone have a digital sub to DWM? What format is it in?
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 13, 2023 22:00:32 GMT
I'm not sure I've got it in me to bin the magazines because I've been collecting them since 1979; it's a core thread through my life, but I've been trying to work out a cut off. I donated my DWM's from the start to 2019 to Oxfam and they used them as a big DW display in a bookshop. Modern issues go to the local Emmeus. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 13, 2023 22:01:15 GMT
Out of curiosity - does anyone have a digital sub to DWM? What format is it in? I did for about 18 months when I was using an iPad a lot several years ago but do not recall the format. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 13, 2023 22:59:18 GMT
If every issue of Dr Who Weekly/Monthly/Magazine/special was piled on top of each other, how high would it be? Based on the piles I was making yesterday, roughly six feet I'd say. |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 27, 2023 18:01:47 GMT
I see DWM has a new editor from next issue. Do we know who?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 27, 2023 18:55:21 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 27, 2023 19:30:15 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 1, 2023 18:25:33 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 14, 2023 12:29:29 GMT
I see DWM are pulling out the stops for the sixtieth with a 224 page bookazine for £20. I'd love to know how many these things sell. That seems a bit ambitious in the current climate.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 14, 2023 14:27:26 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2023 9:33:36 GMT
I see DWM are pulling out the stops for the sixtieth with a 224 page bookazine for £20. I'd love to know how many these things sell. That seems a bit ambitious in the current climate. They had me at 'slipcase'. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 8, 2023 6:46:01 GMT
I see DWM are pulling out the stops for the sixtieth with a 224 page bookazine for £20. I'd love to know how many these things sell. That seems a bit ambitious in the current climate. In stock. £12.97 |
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 8, 2023 21:39:07 GMT
Well alrighty then!
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 9, 2023 8:25:38 GMT
But not in stock at the publisher, which I pre-ordered from. SIGH.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 11, 2023 10:29:19 GMT
Mine arrived.
Oh dear.
The 'slipcase' is the flimsiest of flimsy things: just very thin paper. Good luck getting the mag inside out without ripping it. Said mag was already damaged as the 'slipcase' provides no protection.
I paid £20 for this!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 24, 2023 13:49:32 GMT
Fourteenth Doctor comic strip from DWM has been collected as special, released yesterday. Not in my Smiths so I ordred one from the Panini website.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 25, 2023 18:16:30 GMT
Same.
I enjoyed it in DWM though it did suffer from being in 6-page chunks over 14 issues so I lost the thread of the plot a bit.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 25, 2023 21:28:30 GMT
I found that. Although I didn't realise until I got to the end last week and had no idea what had just happened.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 26, 2023 20:21:37 GMT
Nice to see Lee Sullivan back on the strip after a while away, and I have to say it was very poor during the Whitaker era and Jac Rayner should not be allowed near the strip again, especially with that rotten Doom's Day tie in comic, probably the worst strip I've ever read in DWM.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 2, 2023 11:41:38 GMT
Enjoyed sitting down and reading it all in one sitting. Nice one off adventure for the 14th Doctor, although a nice gap between the end of that and The Star Beast for Big Finish to exploit.
Can't wait for the 10th, The Metacrisis and The 14th to crossover.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 4, 2023 22:28:01 GMT
It leads directly into the Children in Need scene.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 4, 2023 23:58:36 GMT
WHEN HAS SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVER STOPPED BIG FINISH?!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 5, 2023 9:02:28 GMT
Fair point.
They have to keep having endless 'surprise' appearances of River Song or the Meddling Monk going somehow.
-Ralph
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