Wednesday, December 12, 2007

(whistles theme while typing)

More on the IDW versh, grey market, DOCTOR WHO comics. Sounds like the writer has a decent handle on it.

by Mark Kardwell at 2:02 AM

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3 comments:

RAB said...

"...a thirty foot tall cat rampaging through 1970s London, knocking buses flying..."

Goodies! I am happy.

8:26 AM
Mark said...

Yeah, I liked that reference, too. The Goodies was a show with a great visual ambition, which its budget could never meet, on the BBC, on a Saturday evening. The WHO comparisons are significant!

What I thought was telling was the guy knows there's a line to be walked: comics don't have an effects budget, so you can show anything you can think of, WHO on TV doesn't, so go too far out and, suddenly, it's lost its essence.

8:08 PM
Mark said...

Oops, what I meant was WHO on TV does have a budget, what it doesn't have is unlimited resources bound only by the imagination of a writer and an artist. That remains the preserve of comics.

Continuing on - maybe this is why my all-time favourite Doctor Who strip so far was the Mick McMahon one JUNKYARD DEMON - it has a set-up that'd be very doable on TV: one space station set, one old-school Cyberman, The Doctor and the TARDIS.

8:21 PM

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