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PaulHanley In reply to HenshinDaisuke [2012-09-29 06:49:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! There's actually one more page already (I forgot to update the links- fixed now): [link]

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PaulHanley In reply to SynCallio [2012-09-19 15:52:34 +0000 UTC]

That's exactly it- I'm glad that's coming across and that it's not just seeming like a lot of quirky randomness.

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PaulHanley In reply to CGren123 [2012-09-11 12:15:17 +0000 UTC]

Hopefully soon. Shawn turned the next page in a good while back, and it's already lettered. I just need to find the time to color it once I get some paying work out of the way.

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ShawnVanBriesen In reply to deathchrist2000 [2012-09-07 13:27:01 +0000 UTC]

I wasn't thinking Time Lord art. Just modern art, really. My daughter and I just come back from the Rembrandt exhibit at the Art Institute.

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deathchrist2000 In reply to ShawnVanBriesen [2012-09-09 04:54:29 +0000 UTC]

Seriously, third panel, in the room that is not with the TARDIS, I swear that looks like some time lord imagery. Left of "You Made Me" painting.

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ShawnVanBriesen In reply to deathchrist2000 [2012-09-09 12:46:15 +0000 UTC]

Just serendipitous, I suppose.

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ShawnVanBriesen In reply to deathchrist2000 [2012-09-07 13:25:01 +0000 UTC]

What can I say? I had just finished reading the Gareth Roberts novelization of Shada when I was working on that page.

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PaulHanley In reply to deathchrist2000 [2012-09-07 00:56:26 +0000 UTC]

Just CITY OF DEATH, really. I like Adams, but not as much as some people. I've actually gotta admit I've never read the DIRK GENTLY books. Chronotis and the Hitchhiker's Guide cameo was something Shawn came up with.

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PaulHanley In reply to Arcalian [2012-09-06 15:40:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. And yeah, I know many people have written off Bullet Time as having been undone even back in the EDAs, but just to leave it as "well maybe that means Sarah Jane isn't dead anymore" is pretty freakin' lame. That's right up there w/ leaving Benton unconscious and possibly dead the last time we see him in THE ANDROID INVASION.

Also overturned by RTD- Liz Shaw in Eternity Weeps.

I always chalk this stuff up to "Time War" or any other bigass history-altering reboot (like the end of Moff's first season). Nothing is REALLY final in Doctor Who. I'm sure one day the Time Lords are gonna be back- it's just too big a thing not to use. It'd be like leaving Magneto dead in X-MEN (personally, I'd take them right back to their roots- slightly scary super-beings who are basically well-meaning but, due to ideological differences, are forever pursuing the Doctor to stop his too-overt interfering- just like the 60s).

I'm always surprised by how the production team neglects the spinoff media in ways other series don't. Say what ya will about Star Wars (and oy vey, there's a lot to say)- but damn near EVERYTHING counts with them (no matter how dopey). It's weird when they do stuff like the Doctor bumping into Churchill, and even saying they have previous history, but then when they lay out that history in The Brilliant Book, they totally ignore PLAYERS, THE SHADOW IN THE GLASS, etc- all BBC books, no less. It's kind of an FU to the fans who bought those books (which the BBC licensed or even published itself).

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Arcalian In reply to PaulHanley [2012-09-06 15:44:36 +0000 UTC]

It's the curse of the EU, Expanded Universe. I heard someone on a star wars forum say that Lucas himself thinks that *none* of the post-ROTJ stuff counts, as that was supposed to be the end of the Sith and the end of the Story. And let's not get started on how the current Clone Wars cartoon overrules stuff that happened in Tarkovsky's cartoon. And then there's Cyborg Maul....

Bottom line? The powers-that-be in *any* franchise don't really care about the EU stuff. It's all about money.

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PaulHanley In reply to Arcalian [2012-09-07 00:52:39 +0000 UTC]

Amen to that, brutha. Didn't know those finer points of the Star Wars EU (except for cyborg Maul), but that all sounds about right. I actually haven't kept up with it since the HEIR TO THE EMPIRE days, but I recently had to do a crash course in it b/c I applied for a job at BioWare on the OLD REPUBLIC writing staff (hey, like ya said- it's all about the money ). I didn't talk about it around here of course, but this was pretty much what my life was centered around last December/ January. The process got pretty far along (I wrote a test module and everything) before the post got pulled, followed a few months later by BioWare axing about a quarter of its staff (including a buddy who was already on the writing team).

We never reached the point, but I always wondered what I was gonna say if someone had asked me, "So... do you actually like Star Wars?" That wouldn't have been an easy answer. I guess I would've been honest and hoped for the best.

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PaulHanley In reply to DoctorRy [2012-09-06 12:31:47 +0000 UTC]

The two folks at the bottom are con artists Mickey Bricks and Stacie Monroe from the (really great) BBC series HUSTLE [link] (TV_series) More than a few eps involved art-themed cons, so they're a logical cameo for London's Tate Museum of Modern Art (where this is all going down). Presumably Cleese is a new "mark".

HUSTLE had a lot of Who actors turn up in it over the years, including Colin Baker and John Barrowman. Plus two of the leads were Marc Warren (Elton from LOVE AND MONSTERS) and Robert Glenister (Salateen from THA CAVES OF ANDROZANI).

It also had one of the catchiest "I can't get this damn music out of my head" opening themes ever: [link]

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DoctorRy In reply to PaulHanley [2012-09-07 01:15:25 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I've never heard of this programme. I assume that it must have been shown over here but for some reason it's slipped through the net. I may have to go back and check this out

Robert Vaughn! Definitely going to have to look now

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PaulHanley In reply to DoctorRy [2012-09-09 07:16:03 +0000 UTC]

Vaughn's great in it too- the best role he's had in decades. Maybe ever!

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DoctorRy In reply to PaulHanley [2012-09-09 08:11:28 +0000 UTC]

He'll always be Napoleon Solo to me

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PaulHanley In reply to gazzatrek [2012-09-06 08:17:43 +0000 UTC]

Already got another page being colored! You're not gonna believe who shows up next.

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gazzatrek In reply to PaulHanley [2012-09-06 08:23:36 +0000 UTC]

'blimey.

I've literally NO IDEA!


'can't wait!

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