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Post by The Doctor on May 29, 2020 20:20:56 GMT
From the editorial: "We're grateful for the support our loyal readers have shown over the last few months. However, the retail situation in the UK remains challenging, In common with many of the other magazines that have managed to keep going through these difficult times, we're having to make economies. We've taken the difficult decision to rest the comic strip for the next three issues, by which time we're hoping that life - and business - will have returned to some kind of normality. The strip will resume with something very special - namely our contribution to the Time Lord Victorious project."
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on May 29, 2020 20:22:27 GMT
And in other news HOW THE **** did THAT STORY come in as the 2nd best First Doctor story??!!! Aside from THAT story being rather good, it's because the whole world cup idea is shit. The story is ok, but it's hardly Top Ten material, is it? It never rates that highly! The World Cup idea may be fun for Twitter users to take part in, but it really does not work as an article. -Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on May 29, 2020 20:23:24 GMT
Feels like the current situ is beginning to bite now. Weak feeling issue all round on an initial flick through. They need to sort out the covers too. A lot recently have been terrible. This one using a grainy old 60s pic with random swirly bits is even worse than those odd classic doctor closeups they did last year. I suspect these covers work better when the straplines are on them, but they really aren't a subscriber incentive. They need to go retro gamer's route and do totally different sub covers that use the space. The gaping holes on DWM sub covers just make you wonder what text you're missing. It's just as well I recycle most of my issues as they often turn up ripped to buggery anyway! -Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 29, 2020 20:58:06 GMT
I still have a full set. No idea why these days, chances of me ever revisiting anything from the last twenty years are pretty slim. It doesn't really feel like the reference it used to these days. The full run of DWM and 2000AD/Megazine in my old room at my parents house takes up quite a bit of space.
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Post by The Doctor on May 29, 2020 21:24:01 GMT
If space had been no issue I would have kept them all but they had to go. So about 20 years worth went to Oxfam book shop (which they made a nice display of) and now most get recycled except for special or anniversary issues, which are kept as a representative. I keep few since I subbed as they get badly damaged in the post anyway. Generally, I don't have room for periodicals. Only 2000AD/Megazines are kept.
I love the periodical format and continue to support it but can't keep many.
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on May 29, 2020 23:26:58 GMT
Will DWM be reducing the page count as well? Retro Gamer and other Future mags have dropped 16 pages from their recent issues.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 30, 2020 6:41:07 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 30, 2020 8:59:16 GMT
Will DWM be reducing the page count as well? Retro Gamer and other Future mags have dropped 16 pages from their recent issues. I wouldn't be surprised. There will be 8 pages where the comic strip usually goes! Unless they fill it with reprints. -Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Jun 1, 2020 22:34:01 GMT
The National Theatre have spent the day uploading trailers for previously recorded plays, including a 2012 production of Antigone that features the 9th and 13th Doctor.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 4, 2020 17:51:32 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 5, 2020 21:31:20 GMT
Power of the Daleks SE bumped to August 3rd, according to Amazon email.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 6, 2020 7:54:48 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 7, 2020 17:01:01 GMT
Been reading the Fact of Fiction article on Vervoids in DWM. It occurred to me to ask, we have a few stalwart supporters of the Trial season and the McGann film here, two eras of the show that aren't generally regarded as high points. Why so much love for those two particularly? I'm not saying they're bad, I like the trial season a lot, but what's the attachment?
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 7, 2020 18:11:49 GMT
BECAUSE THEY ARE THE BEST.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 7, 2020 18:19:20 GMT
Yes but why?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 7, 2020 19:27:47 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 7, 2020 19:31:19 GMT
Been reading the Fact of Fiction article on Vervoids in DWM. It occurred to me to ask, we have a few stalwart supporters of the Trial season and the McGann film here, two eras of the show that aren't generally regarded as high points. Why so much love for those two particularly? I'm not saying they're bad, I like the trial season a lot, but what's the attachment? I genuinely love the Trial, as i love the fact it introduces the fact not that the Doctor is fallible, but corruptible - vague enough to give us an out, but it's a great concept. One that has sadly never really been followed through properly. The McGann movie, I love the gothic/edwardian trappings to the Tardis and while I think Rose does a better job of introducing the Doctor after being off screen for an age, I do enjoy going on the journey with the Doctor to rediscovering who he was. Roberts is grand as the Master.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 7, 2020 19:51:57 GMT
THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT THE CATHARSIS OF SPURIOUS MORALITY!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 7, 2020 19:52:07 GMT
MASTER WILL DO!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 11, 2020 11:50:13 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 11, 2020 12:37:07 GMT
Good!
Now re-release the rest, BBC.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 11, 2020 20:07:53 GMT
At least that's an acknowledgement that the first run wasn't big enough. Hopefully that means they'll be more aware of demand going forward. It's not rocket science. Seven releases into the line they should be able to accurately estimate sales for any given Doctor so that the boxes stay on shelves for a year or so before going out of print. That way they'd sell a few more.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 11, 2020 20:09:49 GMT
Gah they're so frustrating. Double the run, watch them sell then let the penny drop the first sets need reissues.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 14, 2020 6:29:10 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 14, 2020 6:32:03 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 20, 2020 7:08:37 GMT
"Stop this drilling and start filling up that shaft!" This week on Fifty Years of Doctor Who we're watching episode 278 Inferno: Episode Seven 50yearsdoctorwho.blogspot.com/2020/06/278-inferno-episode-seven.html?spref=tw And that's Season Seven DONE! All being well, Fifty Years of Doctor Who will return on Saturday 2nd January 2021 with episode 279 Terror of the Autons: Episode One but before that Forty Years of Tom Baker starts it's last season on Sunday 30 August with episode 533 The Leisure Hive: Part One.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 20, 2020 10:42:48 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 25, 2020 11:37:13 GMT
DWM has arrived. Page count reduced to 76.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 25, 2020 20:35:20 GMT
Thought it felt a bit thin. Shops are open again now though, couple of months and it might start getting thicker again.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 25, 2020 20:40:43 GMT
The page reduction will be down to the comic strip being dropped without anything to fill that space.
-Ralph
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