You Were Expecting Someone Else 18 (The Eighth Doctor Comics)
First off, an announcement: I'm funding the second edition of the William Hartnell book via Kickstarter. The link is here. Please, contribute, spread the word, et cetera. There are some lovely perks...
View ArticleKickstarter Stretch Goals
Update #3:So. Um. This Kickstarter has gone a bit better than I was planning on. So much so that I've already made it into some advanced stretch goals I was planning on debuting later this week. More...
View ArticlePop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 59 (Harry Potter)
Let's start with a quick update on the Kickstarter for the second edition of the Hartnell book. Short form: it's doing amazingly. We're well over goal, and working our way through stretch goals at a...
View ArticleIn The Wild And The Wind (Sometime Never...)
Thanks to everyone again on the Kickstarter. This has... been humbling.It is entirely possible that Sometime Never… contains the single dumbest retcon in all of Doctor Who. Given the competition for...
View ArticleStretch Goal Ideas
I may as well ask this here as well as on the Kickstarter.We're doing very well, and chewing through the second set of stretch goals at an alarming rate. I added one more commentary track - the TV...
View ArticlePosting twice in one day? Just who does this guy think he is?
Well, mainly he thinks he's the guy who just had his conversation with Mac Rogers about Hide go up on Slate. So, you know. If you want some spoilers for what I'll be saying in the Moffat era, go have fun.
View ArticleTime Can Be Rewritten 39 (The Gallifrey Chronicles)
Good morning everyone. Some orders of business before the post. First of all, the Kickstarter continues to be blowing me away. As I mentioned over the weekend, I was needing more stretch goal ideas. T....
View ArticleYou Were Expecting Someone Else 19 (Scream of the Shalka)
The list of proper “alternate Doctors” is relatively small: you’ve got Cushing, of course - the alternate Doctor who has actually impacted culture in any meaningful sense. You’ve got the Curse of Fatal...
View ArticleApropos of Nothing
What's really interesting about Hide and The Rings of Akhaten is the consequence of Neil Cross being brought into Doctor Who. It tells us that Moffat was watching Luther, and that the shows were...
View ArticleOutside The Government 9 (This Town Will Never Let Us Go)
If you missed yesterday's mini-post, I'm releasing Wednesday's entry on Rose (over 13k and as good as I hoped it would be) as a backer-exclusive update on Kickstarter if we reach $10k there. So if you...
View ArticleTARDIS Eruditorum: Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 60 (The Second...
So here we are. New website. I would have launched it right with Rose, but, well, it was easier to throw the switch on the weekend. So yes, this is now properly just “my website,” with TARDIS...
View ArticleNew Kickstarter Stretch Goal, And a Thing in Chicago This Weekend (EDIT: Plus...
It's time for this to become thesecond best Doctor Who/Blakecrossover book ever published.I know, I'd been going to shut up until Wednesday. But this is cool and I want to get the word out.I've just...
View ArticlePeople Made of Smoke and Cities Made of Song (Rose)
HAI!Musing on From Hell and its connections to Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Alan Moore posited that in holistic detection “you wouldn’t just have to solve the crime, you’d have to solve the...
View ArticleStories, Titles, and Kickstarter Updates
Someone asked me, and I found it an entertaining question, what I thought the most jarring mismatches in story quality vs title quality were. I noted, for instance, that The Ark in Space, Rose, and all...
View ArticleSomehow We've Materialized, For A Split Second Of Time (The End Of The World)
I have a budget now. Budgets are cool.Hello. There are some new reward tiers at the Kickstarter that may tempt you.It’s April 2nd, 2005. Tony Christie is at number one with “(Is This The Way To)...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (May 4, 2013)
I dunno, we'll see how this goes as a new feature. But let's try a Saturday open thread, shall we? A "kick our feet up and talk about whatever for the weekend" sort of thing.We'll also make it the...
View ArticleAttacked By This Little Man (The Unquiet Dead)
What do you mean they're monsters? They're blue! Ithought monsters were all green. Or yellow.It’s April 9th, 2005. Tony Christie is still at number one, helpfully illustrating the problem of these...
View ArticleThe DePaul Thing
Right, I promised you all some notes on how the DePaul colloquium went last weekend.I sadly only ended up catching half of the panels due to being behind on work, the lack of a scheduled lunch hour,...
View ArticleYou Were Expecting Someone Else 20 (The Book of the World)
Well, it's almost the right cover.The Book of the World was, in essence, Lawrence Miles showing off that he could write a good Doctor Who script for the modern series. He put it up on the web for a...
View ArticleBlogrolling: Adventures with the Wife in Space
I've been terrible, over the years of this blog, about linking other blogs - I am for whatever reason not hugely fond of blogrolls on the sidebar of blogs. But I figure since I'm trying to find content...
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