Post by zarius on May 30, 2022 4:51:21 GMT
While promoting his upcoming Doctor Who special for Titan Comics, Marvel's Dan Slott revealed he had plans for a five issue series where Peter Parker would become The Doctor's companion, and Curt Connors would become a Silurian instead of The Lizard. He also likens Immortus/Kang to The Master. Marvel were 'happy just being Marvel' and asked if he'd rather create a Doctor-like character exclusive to them.
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From the Doctor Who side, the Doctor has had adventures with Agatha Christie, Vincent van Gogh, and Robin Hood.
The Doctor loves having adventures with historical figures.
Think of Spidey as one of the most colorful characters in all of history, and that's your "in" from the Doctor side of things.
As for the hook of each story (it would've been a 5 issue mini), those are things you'd have to hear in each story title/pitch/synopsis.
I walked people from BBC Worldwide and DW through the beats of each story-- and each one has a very good Doctor Who/Spider-Man "hook", meshing the worlds/character/properties of each character very well-- as well as how we would have had Spider-Man/Peter Parker and the Doctor would work together in each adventure. And the BBC loved it.
End of the day, if you're going to have the Doctor interact with a world of super heroes, why not have him interact with the greatest super hero of all-time?
I get the appeal of marrying the Sci-Fi property with another Sci-Fi property. Like having the Doctor interact with the Fantastic Four. Or have him save a planet that's about to be devoured by Galactus. But that doesn't gibe with what makes the Doctor fun. That's like having a peanut butter and peanut butter sandwich. You want the jelly.
It'd be way more fun to have the Doctor travel back in time and interact with Indiana Jones as opposed to having him go to a wacky space bar/Cantina and interact with Han Solo. The Doctor can *already* do something like that.
The Doctor loves having adventures with historical figures.
Think of Spidey as one of the most colorful characters in all of history, and that's your "in" from the Doctor side of things.
As for the hook of each story (it would've been a 5 issue mini), those are things you'd have to hear in each story title/pitch/synopsis.
I walked people from BBC Worldwide and DW through the beats of each story-- and each one has a very good Doctor Who/Spider-Man "hook", meshing the worlds/character/properties of each character very well-- as well as how we would have had Spider-Man/Peter Parker and the Doctor would work together in each adventure. And the BBC loved it.
End of the day, if you're going to have the Doctor interact with a world of super heroes, why not have him interact with the greatest super hero of all-time?
I get the appeal of marrying the Sci-Fi property with another Sci-Fi property. Like having the Doctor interact with the Fantastic Four. Or have him save a planet that's about to be devoured by Galactus. But that doesn't gibe with what makes the Doctor fun. That's like having a peanut butter and peanut butter sandwich. You want the jelly.
It'd be way more fun to have the Doctor travel back in time and interact with Indiana Jones as opposed to having him go to a wacky space bar/Cantina and interact with Han Solo. The Doctor can *already* do something like that.
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