Feb 11

Torchwood vs. The Deckchair Trilogy

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© 2010 Brian Williamson

Well it’s always the way, I self-publish comics for five years and when I finally get the chance to do it professionally, two come along on the same day! The first, “Ma and Par“, is a Torchwood strip written in conjunction with Torchwood Magazine for the Sky Channel justwatch.co.uk as part of their Alien Invasion Week. It’s the first time I’ve written anything for Torchwood and it was a challenge cramming action, a plot and making our heroes recognisable in just four pages, but I’m very pleased with it. Special credit must go to the phenomenal Brian Williamson who is an artist I’ve long admired and did a fantastic job on the script!

© 2010 BBC Worldwide

My second strip out today is in issue 153 of Doctor Who Adventures Magazine and is entitled “Arctic Eclipse”. It’s illustrated by the wonderful John Ross and marks the end of what I now call my “deckchair trilogy”. Back when I first wrote this I was pretty certain it would be the last Tenth Doctor story I’d write (that’s no longer the case as it happens) and looking back at my previous two stories; one in the 2010 Storybook and one for the BBC Doctor Who website, I realised that both had the Doctor chilling out in a deckchair. I decided that, if this were to be my final story of the Tenth Doctor’s era, I’d kill it off and give the readers some deckchair closure! So, for the two people in the world (hi mum!) who have read all three and actually care about such things, there’s a nice little mini-arc for you!

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Jan 09

The Runaway Nuclear Train Timetable

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So yes, my Audio Book and my Novel both got announced at last! Which should really warrant a post I reckon, although I hesitate to say much about either of them as I don’t want to give anything away, and with so long until their release it’s all changeable anyway.

But I will say that it’s been a fantastic experience to write both of them, especially because of the fact that it’s part of a new series and a new Doctor and not to mention a slightly bluer TARDIS! I’ve done a couple of short stories for the Tenth Doctor (and I’m not finished with him yet- there’s a couple of Doctor Who Adventures strips to come) but I always felt like I kind of arrived at the end of the party with Ten (but oh, what a spectacular end!)- his character was so complete and we had already seen so much of that incarnation, (which is a big tribute to Mr David Tennant- who owned the part the minute he walked on screen) that I never really thought that I had much to add.

It’s completely different writing for the Eleventh Doctor at the stage when he’s still changing and evolving and growing in everybody’s minds because you’re there at the beginning and you get to contribute to that whole first-season-first-impression thing even if it’s in the tiniest of tie-in ways. Of course that actually makes it even more nerve racking as I’m constantly going “does he actually talk like this? have I made him too distant? Too funny? Would that really be Amy’s favourite TV programme?” and most importantly “Is my Eleventh Doctor distinctly different to my Tenth?” So despite all the helpful things I’ve been lucky enough to see, those fears aren’t going to go away until the series airs and I can hold up the novel/audio/comic/whatever and go “yep, that’s the same person.” or “oh god no, I’ve got it completely wrong!”

And that’s it for now, I’ll probably talk about them more nearer the time when blurbs and readers and things have been announced but in a nutshell the whole thing is both fantastic, brilliant and…er… geronimo-ious?

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