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Post by Bogatan on Dec 8, 2019 11:15:56 GMT
Normally when I come across them they are either ruined or more than I want to pay or theres far more than I want to commit to in a single purchase.
50p for four though and I really cant say no.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 8, 2019 11:32:25 GMT
Nice!
Go for The Sea Devils first. Malcolm Hulke was great for adding extra touches here and there in his novelisations to round them out as books and that's a classic Third Doctor story.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 8, 2019 11:35:17 GMT
I bought my first Target books today. AND SO IT BEGINS. They still hold up today, as evidencex by occassional reprints and ongoing audiobooks of them. If they didn't still have enough quality to them they wouldn't be commercially viable. No other tie-in series stays in print. Even Star Trek doesn't get reprints any more. There is more than just nostalgia in play for DW Target books! -Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 8, 2019 11:36:05 GMT
Nice! Go for The Sea Devils first. Malcolm Hulke was great for adding extra touches here and there in his novelisations to round them out as books and that's a classic Third Doctor story. I second this recommendation. -Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 8, 2019 11:41:57 GMT
Sea Devils it is then.
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Post by blueshift on Dec 8, 2019 15:02:57 GMT
NICE
Sea Devils was a treasured read of mine as a kid
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 8, 2019 22:37:26 GMT
I have the audiobook somewhere. I must dig it out.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 11, 2019 7:16:17 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 11, 2019 19:04:20 GMT
I hope the Saward Dalek books are unedited. I didn't buy the hardbacks specifically because I hoped this would happen, but when they printed Shada in the Target line they cut the word count.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 13, 2019 23:18:26 GMT
New target books are a welcome thing.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 14, 2019 16:55:27 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 26, 2020 14:38:21 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 26, 2020 18:43:04 GMT
Well that was.... short.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 3, 2020 20:58:48 GMT
Going by my Amazon emails, the new Target novelisations have been bumped to March 2021.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 3, 2020 21:08:06 GMT
Oh that's a pity. I was looking forward to those, particularly the Dalek ones. I was updating my Target list only the other day to put them on. I was pondering whether I need the target version of City of Death as well as the original hardback.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 3, 2020 21:20:20 GMT
The Target version of City of Death is an abridged version of the HC so I have skipped it.
I may now crack and get the HC's of Saward's Dalek books if it will be 12 months until the Target editions.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 3, 2020 21:44:49 GMT
Yes, I know it's abridged, but not having the Target one leaves a gap in the collection the hardback doesn't really fill. That's a heck of a delay, Corona related or not. Eight months from the original date!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 15, 2020 17:35:48 GMT
We've seen other publishers such as Rebellion delay some books until 2021. Makes sense given disruption with book stores closed, staff at publishers furloughed, etc.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on May 12, 2020 20:03:08 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 15, 2020 21:55:18 GMT
SOLD!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 12, 2020 10:24:12 GMT
Backed the Lytton kickstarter - there's now discussion of an Orcini spin-off and Adrian Salmon is involved. How could I say no?
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 12, 2020 10:27:21 GMT
I don't touch Kickstarter but if the comics are available to order normally I will get them.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 12, 2020 10:30:52 GMT
You should, it's effectively a fund gathering and payment transfer operation it's the people behind the project that should guide you as to whether you back or not.
Indiegogo however, is much sketchier and the only place where I've been screwed by crowd-funding.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 12, 2020 10:33:04 GMT
I can't be done with it. Too dodgy. Kickstarter and other crowd-funder outfits are not a pre-order service. The product may never be made or arrive years later. No chance.
If something gets approved and is then orderable the standard way later than I grab it. If not, then obviously I don't.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 12, 2020 10:43:57 GMT
For a lot of comics they actually are a pre-order service in all but name. Like I said that's where knowing who the person doing the project is as you will often find the backing is to pay the print job as the work is pretty much done.
I agree some of the projects you could wait a while - board games/tech/toys but comics and books mostly a few months and it's in the hands.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 12, 2020 10:52:25 GMT
It's just not for me.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 27, 2020 20:29:38 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 27, 2020 21:50:51 GMT
Useful! When this was announced it just looked too complicated for me to be bothered to follow what is going on.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2020 10:08:38 GMT
I am all in for this (except for the escape room, obviously). It tickles that 'Shadows of the Empire' vibe.
I'm just puzzled why the current Doctor isn't involved, unless she pops up as a surprise at some point.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Oct 13, 2020 11:57:07 GMT
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