Timey-Wimey, Spacey-Wacey Stuff...
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And we're back - with Part 2 of our gallery of covers for the Marvel UK monthly mag, Doctor Who Classic Comics. You now have all 28 covers, 27 being for the regular mag and one for the Autumn Special, so don't dare say that I never give you anything. As well as the reprints of earlier Dr. Who strips, the mag also had features on the strips, as well as a fold-out poster of the cover illustration in every ish. The poster in #18 was the final one, perhaps an indication that costs needed to be saved due to declining sales.
However, with or without a poster, it was well worth £2.50, even by the standards of the day back then. I've never removed the posters from the mags as I have no space on my walls to put them, but maybe one day... who knows? (No pun intended.) There was also a regular feature called The Telesnap Archive, which looked back at episodes of the show, utilising 'screen-grabs' , which would've appealed to the geeks and anaroks, but to which I was indifferent - it was the strips themselves I was more interested in.
Anyway, that's your lot for this time around, Crivvies, see you in the next post I hope - whatever it's about.
8 comments:
I assume you didn't watch the Dr. Who New Year's Day Special? It was quite good.
You assume correctly, CJ. The Doctor is not a wumman. I refuse to indulge their gender agenda.
The Doctor is an alien with two hearts who regularly transforms into a different person. I don't see why it's such a big deal that the Doctor could become female. And how do we even know that gender is an issue among the Timelords? Perhaps the Doctor is really a genderless tentacled monstrosity and we see only the illusion of a human form.
The idea that the Doctor could regenerate was just a way of changing the lead actor in the role, CJ, nothing more complicated than that to begin with. If a man regenerates, then it's entirely natural that he should regenerate into another version of what he already is - a man. The idea that he could change his gender was initially a bit of mischief to regenerate (see what I did there?) interest in the show, but then the Gaylords (as opposed to the Time Lords) seized on the idea in their mission to diminish sex and gender 'barriers' and remake the world in their own image - starting with a TV show, but with the purpose of influencing society on a wider level.
One Time Lord (might've been the Doc, can't remember) said on the show once, something like, "We Time Lords don't get hung up on gender like you humans do", the idea being that humans are a thick, primitive, uncivilised bunch when compared to Gallifreyans. So make no mistake, there's an agenda at play here. When some lizards lose a leg, it grows back - regenerates - but it grows back as a leg, not any other part of its anatomy, so why shouldn't a Time Lord regenerate in the same way, without any of this gender-fluidity nonsense that minority sections of society are trying to foist on us?
Let them eat cake! (Eh?)
Kid, the BBC has just announced that Jodie Whittaker is quitting as the Doctor and her replacement will be SALMA HAYEK.
Not really, but that would be a dilemma for you, eh?
Not really, CJ - I'd just watch her in From Dusk Till Dawn when Dr. Who was on.
I have no memory of even seeing any of these mags at the time of publication, which is strange considering I was regularly buying the Avengers (before it became fashionable), Iron Man (before it became fashionable), Thor (before it became fashionable) and Quasar (err...). I must have seen them in my comic shop of choice at the time, but never bought any, which is odd considering they're the kind of thing that would definitely interest me.
Like many strange decisions I made in the mid-late 90s, I blame it on the corrupting influences of rock music, cheap wine and beer, and ladies with similar interests.
Ah, ladies with similar interests, DS. That's been the ruin of many a man. You should have gone out with a nice quiet librarian lady - with glasses.
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