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Post by ClockworkOcean on Jun 9, 2022 16:05:26 GMT
As I recall, Star Beast was actually rather good as it boasted some great artwork and was one of several good quality comic strip stories from the weekly (later monthly) magazine. Another comic strip adventure that I fondly remember was the Iron Legion story that involved an alternative Earth conquered by a future Roman Empire aided by some supremely sinister demonic aliens. Cracking stuff. You might be interested to know that The Iron Legion was adapted for audio alongside The Star Beast. |
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Post by billpatjontom on Jun 9, 2022 17:01:21 GMT
Thanks - I will check it out.
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Post by iank on Jun 9, 2022 20:48:17 GMT
Oh for heaven's sake, you miserable sods! I'm actually cheered by this. Isn't it obvious what he's doing? I don't believe for one second the special is going to be a comic strip adaptation. It seems highly likely to me he's using the anniversary to both do a multiverse story (potentially handwaving away the Timeless Children bollocks) and celebrate the whole franchise, including the comics, books, audios etc. I'd be very surprised if Beep and co are more than just one aspect of a much bigger whole. I actually find this the most promising thing I've seen so far. You're making me look like the positive one, you miserable canutes!   |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2022 0:45:10 GMT
I think you have excellent insight Iank
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Post by ClockworkOcean on Jun 10, 2022 9:52:40 GMT
Oh for heaven's sake, you miserable sods! I'm actually cheered by this. Isn't it obvious what he's doing? I don't believe for one second the special is going to be a comic strip adaptation. It seems highly likely to me he's using the anniversary to both do a multiverse story (potentially handwaving away the Timeless Children bollocks) and celebrate the whole franchise, including the comics, books, audios etc. I'd be very surprised if Beep and co are more than just one aspect of a much bigger whole. I actually find this the most promising thing I've seen so far. You're making me look like the positive one, you miserable canutes! Well, the past four years have conditioned me not only to expect the worst from Doctor Who, but to assume that I don't even have the capacity to imagine how much worse it's going to get. No matter how low I set my expectations, the Fitzroyers always manage to prove to me that I'm still being too charitable. On that note, here's my prediction for the 60th: all of these casting announcements and film shoots are nothing but a series of red herrings. The actual episode will consist of RTD naked in his bathroom smearing himself from head to toe in faeces for two hours straight. Gormless Bastards will lavish the episode with praise for taking the show in an "exciting" new direction, declaring that Doctor Who can be anything, and that anyone claiming scat porn isn't a legitimate genre for it to cover just can't accept Change™. Jon Blum will assert that the largest of RTD's turds "channels Delgado". Rotten Tomatoes will enable the first ever 100+% critic score while disabling the audience score entirely citing "review bombing" by "the far right". The mainstream media will be awash with articles about an epidemic of "toxic kink shaming" in Doctor Who fandom. Big Finish will jump on the bandwagon, releasing entire box sets consisting of nothing but sex noises and farts. Colin will be clamouring to get involved out of desperation to prove his open-mindedness to millennial hipsters who still won't give him the time of day. He'll die of a resultant bacterial infection, and there'll be no one left who cares because everyone who ever loved this show will have topped themselves out of sheer despair. Of course, it would be lovely if your prediction came true, but one must be realistic about these things. |
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Post by billpatjontom on Jun 10, 2022 17:14:58 GMT
😂 I think an entirely pessimistic view is the only realistic way to consider anything in the "NuPoo" pipeline.
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Post by iank on Jun 10, 2022 21:41:37 GMT
lols I'm probably expecting too much. But honestly this is the first thing in over five years New Who related that made me smile.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2022 21:44:20 GMT
Beep the Meep is a pretty lame name for a villain. Beat the Meat is much better I think.
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Post by RobFilth on Jun 11, 2022 4:35:04 GMT
Somehow I doubt it will be a straight "adaptation". Personally I laughed my ass off when I heard this, and not in a bad way. I actually find it quite delightfully silly. This is the first thing I've heard that makes me at all interested lol! Must admit, it did pique my curiosity too. The wrarth warriors are in it too, Pat Mills and John Wagner had better get a bloody credit. |
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Post by RobFilth on Jun 11, 2022 4:36:55 GMT
Beep the Meep is a pretty lame name for a villain. Beat the Meat is much better I think. Oi! Leave Beep the Meep alone. He's a frigging legend! I'm hoping they release great big giant plushies of Beep, so I can buy one. |
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Post by RobFilth on Jun 11, 2022 4:51:36 GMT
Somehow I doubt it will be a straight "adaptation". Personally I laughed my ass off when I heard this, and not in a bad way. I actually find it quite delightfully silly. This is the first thing I've heard that makes me at all interested lol! I imagine, it'll be a loose adaption, something like RTD's version of Human Nature. The Meep in the back of the cab scene could be the bit where originally the Doctor, Sharon and Meep escape the Wrarth Warriors attacking Mrs Higgins house in a 5A double decker bus. Bit disappointed that Beep doesn't have a bigger body and head though. |
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Post by iank on Jun 11, 2022 8:00:41 GMT
They'll probably CGI up the final version, I reckon.
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Post by burrunjor on Jun 11, 2022 11:20:34 GMT
Oh for heaven's sake, you miserable sods! I'm actually cheered by this. Isn't it obvious what he's doing? I don't believe for one second the special is going to be a comic strip adaptation. It seems highly likely to me he's using the anniversary to both do a multiverse story (potentially handwaving away the Timeless Children bollocks) and celebrate the whole franchise, including the comics, books, audios etc. I'd be very surprised if Beep and co are more than just one aspect of a much bigger whole. I actually find this the most promising thing I've seen so far. You're making me look like the positive one, you miserable canutes!   What makes you think he is doing a multiverse story? There is no way he is going to retcon out Chinballs bollocks, or the first ever female Doctor. He said so. I mean I would love it if he did. Least of all I could gloat to the GB and the reddit wankers who shot down my multiverse idea as never happening in a billion years. Still to me given what Zarius has posted of Beep the Meep being prominent it seems like it could be a sort of adaptation of it. I also saw an article actually getting ready to champion the idea of this being an adaptation, comparing using Beep the Meep to the MCU using Iron Man as their first hero. Seriously! Clockwork's parody is right, they really will justify anything that RTD does. |
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Post by zarius on Jun 11, 2022 12:17:52 GMT
I don't understand? Why? Why when he has millions of pounds, lots of goodwill, does he choose to adapt a crappy, lame story about a monster that's designed to be silly? OK, I have to intercede here...burr, Star Beast is a very good story and along with Iron Legion, City of the Damned, Timeslip, Junkyard Demon, and Dragons's Claw, is among the most fondly remembered Doctor Who comic strip arc of the 70s, if not the breakout one. Everything in that strip is something RTD very blatantly mined for Nu Who, one might even say it's very much the blueprint for the kind of home invasion story in a working class village that Nu Who pioneered. |
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Post by RobFilth on Jun 12, 2022 13:31:34 GMT
They'll probably CGI up the final version, I reckon. I hope you're right Ian, the costume for the Meep looks a bit rubbish. He's supposed to look cuddly, not like a reject from an Edward Barlow furry convention. |
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