tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69738780922375398022024-02-07T18:04:21.910+13:00Reversing the Polarity of the BlogSphere!The blog for the alternative New Zealand Doctor Who fanzineTheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-24256035542510176162013-05-08T08:34:00.002+12:002013-05-08T08:34:31.957+12:00Fanzines Reviewing Fanzines - RTP! #30 Part 2Another <a href="http://jamasenright.blogspot.co.nz/2013/05/received-terminal-prose.html">review</a> of the most recent issue.TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-3485074869250833872013-05-07T11:47:00.002+12:002013-05-07T11:47:53.739+12:00Fanzines Reviewing Fanzines - RTP! #30<span style="font-weight: bold;">RTP!</span> #30 has been reviewed by Alistair Hughes over at <span style="font-weight: bold;">ZeusBlog</span>. Read it <a href="http://www.zeusblog.tetrap.com/?p=2200">here</a>.TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-7815596426286054072013-04-24T13:02:00.000+12:002013-04-24T13:02:08.183+12:00Ray of Sunshine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Issue 30 is finally done and dusted and will posted out shortly to those who've already paid for it.<br />
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Inside issue 30 are...<br />
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<li>Cartoon: Altos Loves Yartek</li>
<li>Article: Fanboy Confidential - Type 40</li>
<li>Cartoon: Pex</li>
<li>Article: The Sound of Stockbridge</li>
<li>Article: If - <i>Operation Werewolf</i></li>
<li>Cartoon: The Karkus</li>
<li>Article: Adventures in Time and PC</li>
<li>Comic: The Tower of Angum Part 4</li>
<li>Article: WTF? River Edition</li>
<li>Fiction: Weapon of Choice Part 3</li>
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TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-64775704683684735802013-04-23T09:41:00.001+12:002013-04-24T21:39:35.563+12:00Flashback - Making Messes (RTP! #11)Issue 11 was a long time in coming. I had left NZ for the UK in May 2000 with the understanding that thanks to the marvels of the internet I would be able to help Matt assemble material for the issue, which he would then paste up and print. That was the plan. Reality was a little different. Matt wasn't hugely motivated (and struggling a bit at Uni at the time de to various issues) and thus the rest of 2000 passes without an issue. By early 2001 most of issue 11 was done, but it still wasn't quite finished. Yet 2001 end without the issue surfacing, which was frustrating for me on the other side of the globe.<br />
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Come 2002 and I returned to NZ that March. I immediately called on Matt and he effectively gave up being an editor there and then, handing me what had been already done. Luckily by this point I had a laptop with the necessary software (a very old version of Adobe PageMaker) and was able to finish the assembly of the issue. I decided just to get it done and out the door rather than start from scratch. Thus issue 11 was finally sent to subscribers in April 2002.TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-52225708353871178252012-10-14T17:30:00.001+13:002013-04-23T09:47:18.334+12:00Reviews - The TARDIS Tales Treasury<br />
First couple of reviews in, one from Edwin Patterson at the NZDWFC <a href="http://forums.doctorwho.org.nz/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=768">forums</a>:<br />
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This is an excellent book, well done. An essential buy for New Zealand fans, and a great read in general.</blockquote>
Secondly, from Paul Scoones at his <a href="http://paulscoones.blogspot.co.nz/2012/10/the-tardis-tales-treasury.html">blog</a>:<br />
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I am most impressed with the look of the finished, printed book, and it clearly shows that Alex has devoted a lot of time and attention to getting it just right.</blockquote>
Order a copy today!<br />
TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-58651823386908543162012-10-02T12:08:00.003+13:002012-10-02T12:08:39.141+13:00The TARDIS Tales Treasury - Out Now!The complete <i>TARDIS Tales Treasury</i> is now available for order from Lulu.com here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/graham-muir/the-tardis-tales-treasury/paperback/product-20381010.html">http://www.lulu.com/shop/graham-muir/the-tardis-tales-treasury/paperback/product-20381010.html</a>TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-49736168999021117632011-10-24T11:21:00.001+13:002011-10-24T11:23:56.855+13:00Fanzines Reviewing Fanzines - RTP! #29<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3hitJW1_jQsL8Ww7nsRyLQqpd4EUT1yU6oZhUbPur7Xo8by2r8QJkn_rsu762CvVvjzUKPUEN3ViWof1ltPXDO-mjV4HQsN8vel_zFwhuAHc4RFw_spfThzeMW0ms_iM8c0l_VeYlLTU/s1600/cover_medium.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3hitJW1_jQsL8Ww7nsRyLQqpd4EUT1yU6oZhUbPur7Xo8by2r8QJkn_rsu762CvVvjzUKPUEN3ViWof1ltPXDO-mjV4HQsN8vel_zFwhuAHc4RFw_spfThzeMW0ms_iM8c0l_VeYlLTU/s200/cover_medium.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666816572343476818" /></a><br /><div>Issue #29 of <i>RTP!</i> is reviewed in the most recent issue of <i>Panic Moon</i>. <a href="http://panicmoonfanzine.blogspot.com/2011/10/october-issue-coming-very-soon.html">Click here</a> to purchase a copy today!<br /><br /></div>TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-22889751831342817802011-07-08T10:59:00.005+12:002011-07-08T11:09:39.179+12:00Sixteen Candles<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivI5Oi6pg3zTahBlYN9Jukra8kf85H_xt4wwjQVhQKdp1C1gIXsL8drAj1uS2ikWWLsICzv7BRPWd0TwSnAF6oKh-8ApwPK32lcSn87pf99FWdouOvzsgoDe7Z9oN9EAuOQ3s6CYpXhOQ/s1600/rtp16.GIF" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivI5Oi6pg3zTahBlYN9Jukra8kf85H_xt4wwjQVhQKdp1C1gIXsL8drAj1uS2ikWWLsICzv7BRPWd0TwSnAF6oKh-8ApwPK32lcSn87pf99FWdouOvzsgoDe7Z9oN9EAuOQ3s6CYpXhOQ/s200/rtp16.GIF" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626751012527683074" /></a><div><div id="intro" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div id="gap2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Issue 16 helped to mark the 40th anniversary of the series </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Doctor Who</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> by presenting a celebratory comic in Japanese - a decision made by writer/editor Alexander Ballingall for the sheer hell of it. As a concession to those not able to read Japanese script, a translation was provided.</span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Editorial:</span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span></span></div><blockquote><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Fandom in the year of the big Four-O</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Most of you will be up with the play by now.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Doctor Who</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">is on the way back to our screens in a new series. What does this mean for fandom? Can fandom survive the series becoming a popular, talked about public item once more?</span></span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I am reminded of the fandom of</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The X Files</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">where, once the series became of hot item at the conclusion of the second season (1995), there was suddenly a lot of grumbling from those fans who had been loyal viewers from the start about these newbies who were lowering the whole tone of being an</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">X Files</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">fan.</span></span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The reason I point this out is because, even without a new series to talk about yet, the older hands on the Outpost Gallifrey message boards are already attacking (a pre-emptive strike if you will) the idiot 'flash-in-the-pan' fans who are lowering the tone of being a</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Doctor Who</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">fan with their posts on BBCi.</span></span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Will new fans with a genuine interest in the show be put off by such an aggressive attitude from the already established fanbase, who have built for themselves a cosy 'us and them' attitude with reference to the series and the public at large.</span></span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Love them or hate them the series will always have its professional fans and its uberfans, but in the last fourteen years the general fanbase has shrunk (the Christchurch chapter itself has gone from meetings involving forty-to-sixty people every two months in 1989/90 to eight-to-ten people every three months this year).</span></span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It can be argued that fandom desperately needs an injection of new fans into its aging demographic, ones who will carry the torch, so-to-speak, for the series once we, the older fans, are all too senile to appreciate it any more. And while a new series will create such loyal fans who will eventually take our places, there is another group of new fans coming.</span></span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On top of all this, can the old guard handle people who will only be fans (ephemeral fans) as long as the series remains popular and who will move on once it drops out of public view again? To again use</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The X Files </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">example, many fans (cult fans) of the first two seasons moved on to new ground once the show became a popular hit with the general public, unable to remain a fan now that the show was no longer 'something special' for a small, select group of TV watchers. Both of these groups, the cult fans and the ephemeral fans, will help to initially swell the fanbase of</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Doctor Who</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, but once the series becomes a hit (and lets face it, it may not) the cult fans will move on and once some other show becomes a hit the ephemeral fans too will move on to pastures greener.</span></span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Can fandom, once the increase and then decrease in fans following a new series occurs, and again made up of only loyal fans (that includes those created via the new series), remain a single entity?</span></span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Already fandom has split along the lines of those who follow the EDAs/Big Finish audios, and those who don't. Can fandom handle another split like that of</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Star Trek</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">where fandom has split into 'New Trek' (those who dislike the original series for being too quaint and for having dated SFX) and 'Old Trek' (those who still like the original series)? Would</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Doctor Who</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">fandom split into newcomers who only watch the new stuff (the older stuff we like being too 'crap') and us, the older fans who retain an appreciation for the older material? Which would </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">DWM</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> place an emphasis on? Which group would the BBC focus more attention on in terms of marketing the series?</span></span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But for now at least, us fans can kick back an enjoy both the anniversary that is upon us but also the knowledge that some people somewhere are trying to make a reality the prospect of a new series on our TV sets in 2005.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">- Alexander Ballingall</span></span></span></div></blockquote><div id="intro" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Star Wars - Episode VII: Guff</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div id="intro"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Published: November 2003<br />A </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Doctor Who</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Fanzine launched by Matt Kamstra & Wade Campbell in October 1997<br />Editor: Alexander Ballingall<br />RTP! Logo Design: Peter & Bridget Adamson<br />Front Cover: Garry Jackson<br />Back Cover: David Ronayne<br />Internal Artwork: Peter Adamson, Alexander Ballingall, Gary Jackson, David Ronayne<br />Letters: Peter Adamson, Jamas Enright, James Gould, Matt Kamstra, Thad Richards [AKA Jamas Enright], Sal Yardley [AKA David Ronayne]<br />Page Count: 52<br />Print Run: 25</span></span></div></div><div id="intro"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Price: NZ$3.50</span></span></div><div id="intro"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div id="intro"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small; ">~Contents~</span></div></span></span><div id="list"><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[01] COVER</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[02] CONTENTS</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[03] </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The FIRST LAW of TIME</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[04] The TARDIS Manual [Contact/Submission Information]</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[05] </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The BOOTCUPBOARD</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> [Letters]</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[09] ARTICLE: Fanboy Confidential - Throwing Everything into the Mix</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[16] Comic Translation</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[19] COMIC: "Tomodachi"</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[35] FICTION: "The Masters of Luxor" [part 2 of 6]</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[48] ARTICLE: The Doctor's Cat</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[49] Herr Josheff Z's - Ze Shell-out Tour</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[50] REVIEW: Seeing the Unknown</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[52] COVER</span></span></li></ul></div></div></div>TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-10290592055876480092011-07-07T18:39:00.003+12:002013-04-24T21:39:27.152+12:00Flashback - The Last of the Golden Summer (RTP! #10)My primary memory of working on issue #10 is sitting out on the large concrete deck of the flat Matt shared with three of his friends. Ensconced in a crummy deck chair I experimented with laying out the first page of the <i>Aquaman </i>comic and ended up in a chat with Shinobu, the Japanese girlfriend of one of Matt's flatmates. I'm happy to blame the poorly drawn attempt at a manga-style character (on the first page of the comic) on her, but that wouldn't be fair. I'd already started drawing it that way before she turned up and offered her polite comments on my lack of drawing ability.<br />
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This would have been late February 2000, as Matt started his third year at <a href="http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/">University</a>, and I already knew I was headed to the UK in May. I had been at the flat that weekend trying to get the issue done and dusted for publication, something achieved as the issue was published the following month.</div>
TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-14432450145841515282011-07-07T13:07:00.002+12:002011-07-07T13:09:29.259+12:00The Day the Earth Stood Still<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCXXGPr9MK369qJ_FN8pZa7zFZW-4rmUr5J6m665RGTJXurKy8k89z3hqczsEvyCJPlYlW4CibHCl3rZFjD-BzL8TdUGcIOUWfS60GFKTOstbAcTn0cgI3AsuV3PYhA14nb1C7hjapw-w/s1600/rtp29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCXXGPr9MK369qJ_FN8pZa7zFZW-4rmUr5J6m665RGTJXurKy8k89z3hqczsEvyCJPlYlW4CibHCl3rZFjD-BzL8TdUGcIOUWfS60GFKTOstbAcTn0cgI3AsuV3PYhA14nb1C7hjapw-w/s200/rtp29.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626411106640001970" /></a>It finally happened. As of now issue #29 is in the postal system!TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-17937965384143538482010-12-10T10:20:00.002+13:002010-12-10T10:28:27.595+13:00Not Quite Issue #29...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQspNqcWHf_yFPV00QDs1_AdSJFm5qnhLO0Rpufxj3UPVFBzfVRPAygtH_S5FJCbJTAJ9kp1zgv35eLyk6SXPydxYa0sGvuhb9-Ncx6j1cBA8w3FrLegP2PEuCe5RKa9_PN9knKu9sT7c/s1600/The+TARDIS+Tales+Treasury.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQspNqcWHf_yFPV00QDs1_AdSJFm5qnhLO0Rpufxj3UPVFBzfVRPAygtH_S5FJCbJTAJ9kp1zgv35eLyk6SXPydxYa0sGvuhb9-Ncx6j1cBA8w3FrLegP2PEuCe5RKa9_PN9knKu9sT7c/s200/The+TARDIS+Tales+Treasury.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548797397369836978" /></a><br />No, not issue #29 yet! Although this is the other project that has been on the go for about a decade. The finish line is nearly in sight!<div><br /></div><div><br /></div>TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-79980520069658611292010-11-06T09:17:00.005+13:002010-11-07T09:31:54.878+13:0015<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEu5nSZ3ngi3dDFJdGy9cCP8X9JXz6DJHDH5PDhkxWJPh8OAwDRcU5azuODbcQmpMwhKPNVIioM18BwbGCQYeCFW9DLcVZ2zcVOpOMpKhMQRNp9rSSWzpvkwivotCVm6S2AA1XKlRn_vM/s1600/rtp15.GIF"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 141px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEu5nSZ3ngi3dDFJdGy9cCP8X9JXz6DJHDH5PDhkxWJPh8OAwDRcU5azuODbcQmpMwhKPNVIioM18BwbGCQYeCFW9DLcVZ2zcVOpOMpKhMQRNp9rSSWzpvkwivotCVm6S2AA1XKlRn_vM/s200/rtp15.GIF" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536537128896208066" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Issue 15 was </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">RTP!</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> on something of a roll. Issue 14 was only just history and issue 16 would arrive only a couple of months later. 2003 was a year when I had a lot of free time between coming back from Japan and before starting my teacher training. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bob the Suicidal Dalek</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> arrived and is probably the best of the three comic series I've inflicted on readers over the years. Former </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Doctor Who</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> fanzine editor Jonathan Park got his say in the interview and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Pulp Who</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> came to a final end, the entire movie having been adapted in the process.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Editorial:</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Milestones</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"></span></span></div><blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"2003.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As the series celebrates another anniversary in November it seems like a good time to look back at the other milestones that the series has reached in its time:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1963.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BBC management try to can the series before it has even screened.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1969.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The series is kicked of UK television screens and is replaced with the American export</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Star Trek</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1970.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The BBC have another go at axing the series.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1972.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The BBC decide to start purging their archive of</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Doctor Who</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">material (see also 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 & 1977).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1981.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The BBC decide to play around with the scheduling of the series to see how much damage they can do. Sticking it in a time slot where people can actually find it just won't do.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1983.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Producer John Nathan-Turner asks to move onto a different programme and his request is denied (see also 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 & 1989).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1985.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BBC 1 Controller Michael Grade decides to axe the series because he doesn't like science fiction (see also</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Tripods</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1986.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In a huge vote of confidence by the BBC, the series is scheduled against</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Coronation Street</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and reduced to fourteen half-hour episodes a season.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1989.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The series is axed with a promise that it will be back in 1991 ... or maybe 1992. How about 1993? No? 1994 ...?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1996.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The BBC try and fob the series off on an unsuspecting US TV network. When this doesn't work they claim that the TV Movie was a failure, despite high audience figures, and don't make any more of the series.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">2001.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">An non-anniversary year, of all things, and the BBC refuse to doing anything about bringing the series back to screens around the world. The bastards!!"</span></span></div><div><div id="intro"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><em style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">- Alexander Ballingall</span></span></span></em></span></div></div></blockquote><div><div id="intro"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><em style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Times;"></span></span></span></em></span></div><div id="intro"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><em style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></em></span></div><div id="intro"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><em style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Times;"></span>Schrödinger's Guff</span></span></em></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div id="intro" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "></em></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Published: August 2003<br />A </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Doctor </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Who</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Fanzine launched by Matt Kamstra & Wade Campbell in October 1997<br />Editor: Alexander Ballingall<br />RTP! Logo Design: Peter & Bridget Adamson<br />Front Cover: Peter Adamson<br />Back Cover: Garry Jackson<br />Internal Artwork: Peter Adamson, Alexander Ballingall, Garry Jackson, David Ronayne<br />Letters: Peter Adamson, Jamas Enright, Jon Preddle, David Ronayne, Sal Yardley [AKA David Ronayne]<br />Page Count: 52<br />Print Run: 25<br />Price: NZ$3.50</span></div><div id="gap2" style=" ;font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div id="intro" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">~ Contents ~</span><div id="list"><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[01] COVER</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[02] CONTENTS</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[03] The FIRST LAW of TIME</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[04] The TARDIS Manual</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[05] The BOOTCUPBOARD [Letters]</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[09] COMIC: Pulp Who - "The Master and Saucer Smith's Wife" [part 3 of 3]</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[17] ARTICLE: Doctor Who and the Cannibals</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[21] /full page advert/</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[22] ARTICLE: Cannibalism in Doctor Who</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[23] FICTION: "The Masters of Luxor" [part 1 of 6]</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[26] Doctor Joseff Zaroff's Ultimate Challenge</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[27] FICTION: "The Blue Shift"</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[28] INTERVIEW: The Right of Reply</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[33] REVIEWS: James' Corner</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[34] CARTOON: Bob the Suicidal Dalek - "Goes Online"</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[36] Doctor Who Drunken Games</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[37] ARTICLE: The Doctor on the Enterprise</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[44] FICTION: "Return to the Horror"</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[47] REVIEWS: A Big Finish</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[49] 30 Second Theory</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[52] COVER</span></li></ul></div></div></div></div>TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-82138535688833580572010-10-27T22:10:00.001+13:002010-10-27T22:11:09.090+13:00One Year Later...Sounds like a zombie film, and <i>RTP!</i> looks a tad like a shuffling corpse. But it isn't dead yet!TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-49546650472853659102009-10-15T18:30:00.003+13:002011-10-24T11:25:08.694+13:00Fanzines Reviewing Fanzines - RTP! #28<span style="font-weight: bold;">RTP!</span> #28 has been reviewed by Alistair Hughes over at <span style="font-weight: bold;">ZeusBlog</span>. Read it <a href="http://www.zeusblog.tetrap.com/?p=1178">here</a>.TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-27162329157645569362009-10-08T08:15:00.002+13:002009-10-08T08:16:46.181+13:00Men at Work<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmONhMt3v3QAhm-M_CKZj3cWra7_a3Skrd9wjPNtFjQUhYRfLHHP9JEqOR_IHkpXBIDD4mIGXeGKQWlAeZgD2c2gTPN5rsQfr6Aaw3nDTCZT-PJ4Un8sHFz9EhyphenhyphenSKaTRUwIsuQOd88qOA/s1600-h/9124_1105058396493_1527767296_30230126_275737_n.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmONhMt3v3QAhm-M_CKZj3cWra7_a3Skrd9wjPNtFjQUhYRfLHHP9JEqOR_IHkpXBIDD4mIGXeGKQWlAeZgD2c2gTPN5rsQfr6Aaw3nDTCZT-PJ4Un8sHFz9EhyphenhyphenSKaTRUwIsuQOd88qOA/s200/9124_1105058396493_1527767296_30230126_275737_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389938789052325522" border="0" /></a><br />Progress, Sir! It's all in the name of progress!TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-86655651267226331162009-09-22T19:28:00.002+12:002009-10-08T08:17:04.512+13:00Under Construction<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmc91t8ooqXrWcP30bMErnKGoIckhufHUiHiniLbwQPcRJo5wnntcTmNL2EFJUq6bCp7q6zJgqDGX7kiYfaqyeudAXZVipqDepcKk3MyFFa1RQ6VsmvVIX2REPCmwRfXzW7VVoUkCBw5I/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmc91t8ooqXrWcP30bMErnKGoIckhufHUiHiniLbwQPcRJo5wnntcTmNL2EFJUq6bCp7q6zJgqDGX7kiYfaqyeudAXZVipqDepcKk3MyFFa1RQ6VsmvVIX2REPCmwRfXzW7VVoUkCBw5I/s200/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384190388437469442" border="0" /></a><br />It's coming...TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-75746042156689765352009-09-19T21:11:00.005+12:002013-04-24T12:55:45.776+12:00RTP! - The Little Fanzine that Could<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5j56licybjFTaOAaCur73qp2oBnddJk7selPze1KOWFeKs27R2kJzw0_3SFeQd6XyIx0JChbESlsX-f1N9ENJ3cjmVp6un10tpl9_Ix_zBRnRXizgp0TnnkrdYeTUdmur4lh9Z5_6fzg/s1600-h/RTP28b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383106707790433410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5j56licybjFTaOAaCur73qp2oBnddJk7selPze1KOWFeKs27R2kJzw0_3SFeQd6XyIx0JChbESlsX-f1N9ENJ3cjmVp6un10tpl9_Ix_zBRnRXizgp0TnnkrdYeTUdmur4lh9Z5_6fzg/s200/RTP28b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 141px;" /></a><br />
Coming up in the next issue of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Reverse the Polarity</span>!<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />RTP!</span> #28 is a comic strip special as we look between the panels at the Doctor's illustrated adventures...<br />
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In this issue:<br />
<ul>
<li>There's part two of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Tower of Angum</span> by Alex Ballingall and Garry Jackson</li>
<li>Peter Adamson catches up with ex-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Doctor_Who_Fan_Club"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Time/Space Visualiser</span></a> comics artist Paul Potiki and talks cartoons, comic strips, animation and motion pictures.</li>
<li>We visit Weirdsville, UK - the fictional village of <a href="http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Stockbridge">Stockbridge</a>, mapping its layout and profiling the inhabitants of the comic strip Doctor's favourite home from home.</li>
<li>We talk to <span style="font-weight: bold;">DWM</span> comics writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_McDaid">Dan McDaid</a> about the town of Stockbridge.</li>
<li><span style="font-style: italic;">Subsidence is Golden!</span> <a href="http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/index/tsv-pex.html">Erato</a> tells another lost tale of <a href="http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Pex">Pex</a> and <a href="http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Krang">Krang</a> as the <a href="http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Tractator">Tractators</a> invade <a href="http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Paradise_Towers">Paradise Towers</a>.</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">RTP!</span> talks to comics historian and NZ fan <a href="http://paulscoones.blogspot.com/">Paul Scoones</a> about the early days of the Doctor in comics</li>
<li><a href="http://jamasenright.blogspot.com/">Jamas Enright</a> asks: Who'd have Sonic? and ponders unsung rivers...</li>
<li>David Ronayne pens part of a new work of fiction, <span style="font-style: italic;">Weapon of Choice</span></li>
<li>All this plus our regular Letters page, Fanboy Confidential, and an Editorial all nestled in an exclusive full-colour cover.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Reverse the Polarity!</span> #28 - out nowTheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-12602077999042391852009-06-09T20:00:00.003+12:002009-06-09T20:07:02.757+12:00Fiction - A Tale of a Second City<span style="font-weight: bold;">"A Tale of a Second City"</span><br />by David Ronayne<br /><br />He pushed his way through the queue rapidly growing by the counter and carefully carried the two trays to where the others were waiting. Despite Doris' protests he had been able to order using broken Russian and various esoteric hand signals, and was now carefully picking his way through the crowds that milled though the busy restaurant. The Doctor's new companion, what was it, Cwej, gleefully pounced on his meal, as Benton had done many years (was it really only a few weeks ago) before. Everything had changed, the world, his life, Benton (did he really buy a used car off that man), even the mad changes that affected the Doctor now seemed more frantic<br />and rushed. He was as he had last seen him, although the impish face and quiet Scottish voice seemed to have hardened and creased. He looked over as his old friend sat hunched over a thickshake, staring intently at the contents with a look of concern on his face. He had made a point not to ask him about Ace.<br /><br />"I would have thought this place would have quietened down by now, it's been here long enough," he ventured, looking over the packed chairs and tables at the bustling throng outside. "Stalin, Mao, Ronald, people flock to each new thing. It'll be tri-VR next, either that or the panEuro league."<br /><br />The little man looked up from his cup. "The more things change the more they stay the same Alistair."<br /><br />"And despite our thankless efforts?"<br /><br />"Of mice and men Brigadier," he paused briefly. "No offence intended."<br /><br />"Sorry I can't agree with that." The old man lent forward in his chair, "You once told me one of the only constants in the universe was change. Ten years ago the idea of a plastic blow-up clown eyeing up the Kremlin would've been unthinkable. The wheel turns. Damn it Doctor, do you realise that I was at Kathy Jones' fifteenth birthday before we left on this trip!"<br /><br />The Time Lord blinked back at him, surprised by his sudden outburst.<br /><br />'There are wheels within wheels, basic patterns recur over and over again."<br /><br />"But there has got to be more to it than that!" The old solider yelled surprising himself with his tone which caused many of the local Muscovites to tum. For a moment he was back in his old office staring down the latest lab requisition order. The black alien eyes stared back at him. He had never noticed how alien they had seemed before.<br /><br />"There must be more to it than that, if not why do we bother? Why not just roll over and let the Autons and Cybermen take us. Things must get better, then we have something to work for." The Doctor stared back at him as his eyebrows creased. Briefly, just briefly, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart saw a flash of recognition in the deep eyes, as his friend's used to look several lifetimes ago.<br /><br />"I'm sorry Brigadier," he said rubbing his brow, "things have been a little hectic lately."<br /><br />"How?"<br /><br />"Well, I turned 975 yesterday," the Time Lord said matter-of-factly.<br /><br />"Happy Birthday Doctor."<br /><br />"Thank you, Brigadier."<br /><br />McDonalds,<br />Moscow,<br />14 May 1996.<br /><br />ENDTheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-17752302493235218642009-04-12T19:19:00.002+12:002009-04-12T19:33:52.485+12:00If - "Song of the Space Whale"Another instalment of "If" from Peter Adamson. This entry is posted to tie in with the announcement that <a href="http://www.bigfinish.com/">Big Finish</a> are adapting some tales from the abandoned Season 23. This "If" comes from the second series of "If" where, instead of examining what impact the story would have had on the series had it been made, it asks what medium would it be best adapted to today (in part already possibly answered by the Big Finish announcement!).<br /><br /><blockquote>The Fifth Doctor adventure:<span style="font-style: italic;"> The Song of the Space Whale</span>/<span style="font-style: italic;">[The] Space-Whale</span><br /><br />Writers: Pat Mills [and John Wagner]<br />Characters: Fourth Doctor/ Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Turlough / Sixth Doctor [and Peri?]<br />Episodes: Four (according to a 1980 scene breakdown)<br />Pitched: 1978 (to Anthony Read), 1980 (the Christopher Bidmead), thereafter to Eric saward<br />Scheduled: Season Twenty, Twenty-One, Twenty-Two (as story 6V)<br />Final Stage: Abandoned after negotiations between Mills and Saward broke down<br /><br />Scenario: The TARDIS arrives aboard the Orkas, Multi-Global’s industrial whaling space ship, hunting a Ghaleen, the titular creature. Inside the Ghaleen the Doctor and Nyssa meet a community of humans, among them a recent arrival, the male Turlough. In an attempt to rescue the time-traveling creature’s slaughter they also discover the Ghaleen’s ancestral hunter, the humanoid Thuthon, Krakos. Fleeing time damage from the crippled creature, the Doctor aids in the overthrow of the ship’s corrupt captain and ultimately the Ghaleen’s survival and reunion with its pod. The colony leave the creature, and a restless Turlough asks to join the TARDIS crew.<br /><br />‘Death is instant. Product loss minimal. Everything will be used’<br />‘-Everything but the song.’<br /><br />The story ...<br /><br />This is it - the mother lode of early '80s unmade-<span style="font-weight: bold;">Who</span>dom. A story so far reaching that it reverberated in succeeding years in multimedia, from a punningly-titled début from proto-Big Finishers AudioVisuals, to yet another of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tucker">Mike Tucker</a>'s endless visual frippery, a TARDIS-Cam Easter egg for, of all things, the <span style="font-style: italic;">Talons of Weng-Chiang</span> DVD. Even in more recent years <span style="font-weight: bold;">DWM</span>'s eighth Doctor strip has given it a passing nod, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Gray">Scott Gray</a>'s <span style="font-style: italic;">Leviathan</span>, set inside a giant snake-shaped organic space vessel. In the curious tale that rides this Whale, it would seem that of all the unmade stories, this has made it or at least inspired the most varied incarnations without ever fully being made.<br /><br />It's a simple idea - a colony of Jonahs in a whale, in space, which is among a species being hunted to extinction by ruthless pirates. If any of this sounds ... I don't know, derivative and heavy-handed, then it may comes as no surprise to some readers that one of its creators was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Mills">Pat Mills</a> of UK comics fame. I don't mean to sound entirely disingenuous - on paper <span style="font-style: italic;">Space Whale</span> is a gem of an idea - wonderful images that could have been at least as technically challenging as a Wembley-sized stadium filled with extras dressed as cats. It also boasted some intriguing characters and ideas, many of which reappear in Mills' non-<span style="font-weight: bold;">Who</span> work; Mills himself being something of a recycler.<br /><br />This thing may well be though, that as much as it would have liked to have been one, <span style="font-style: italic;">Space Whale</span> isn't really a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Doctor Who</span> story, and may not have originated as one either, given the enormous output of both Mills and John (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Judge Dredd</span></a>) Wagner in the late 1970s. The idea that Turlough may have originated from a community living inside a giant space creature just jars with what we know of his character - even if he had been planted there by the Black Guardian (oddly, putting him in an English public school enhances his alienness, although presumably this was deliberate).<br /><br />The story itself is fine, if a little by-the-numbers. Mills is a great concepts man, capable of some stunning conceits (outside of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_AD_%28comic%29"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2000AD</span></a> he is perhaps best known for ultra-violent anti-superhero series <span style="font-weight: bold;">Marshal Law</span>), but his plots don't always challenge the reader, and of the two, Wagner is very much the master story teller, actually getting better yet as the ages condemn. Perhaps the first sign that this <span style="font-style: italic;">Whale</span> was to be harpooned was when Wagner went overboard and left the project. The rest can probably be summed up in shorthand thus: Mills, deadlines, Saward, the end. Mills himself has a reputation for being proprietary with his creations, and has clashed with editors, having been one himself. He is fiercely protective of his creations, reserving the right to combine their histories into a vague and vast Mills-verse (in <span style="font-weight: bold;">2000AD</span> a wobbly line of continuity can be drawn from prehistoric dino-hunting ripper <span style="font-weight: bold;">Flesh</span> through twenty-seconds in the future urban warfare thriller <span style="font-weight: bold;">Invasion 1999</span> (later <span style="font-weight: bold;">Savage</span>), through robot trouble-shooters <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ro-Busters</span>, through 'mek-nificent seven on Mars' <span style="font-weight: bold;">ABC Warriors</span>, through <span style="font-weight: bold;">Judge Dredd</span>, and more recently but probably not last, future Earth alien inquisition parable <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nemesis the Warlock</span>). One can only imagine a writer with this level of propriety clashing with the likes of Eric Saward and, God help him, JN-T<br />The conclusion was perhaps more inevitable than anyone imagined - <span style="font-style: italic;">Space-Whale</span> would never work for television.<br /><br />‘Look at it, Nyssa. A miracle of nature. It took the best brains on Gallifrey a millennium to develop time technology. The Ghaleen has succeeded on its own.’<br /><br /> As ... a comic strip?<br /><br />So why not take it back to its roots as a comic strip? Let Mills develop it in the medium to which he clearly relates and work best in, edit the script of course, have a sure voice of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Who</span>-continuity nearby and assign an artist up to the challenge of realising Mill' vision. And staying faithful to the likenesses of Season Twenty's regulars, of course.<br /><br />But there's a further tragedy that has yet to be revealed. This almost happened, although without the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Who</span> element. In the early 90s Mills in fact attempted to work up a Doctor-less version of the story and failed each time. Lack of interest from a fickle US market and the collapse of adult comic title<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic%21">Toxic!</a></span> which began but never completed the story's last incarnation, saw the demise of the story's last incarnation, the oddly-titled space biker yarn <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mutomaniac</span>. This was to be illustrated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">2000AD</span> (and <span style="font-weight: bold;">DWM</span>) alumnus Mike McMahon, but slow progress in this area (only 30 pages were completed for the comic’s limited run of seven issues) combined with a tight schedule meant a cancelled strip.<br /><br />In an ideal world though, the comic strip is where <span style="font-style: italic;">Song of the Space Whale</span> should be sung. Let Scott Gray rein its writer in, and Martin Geraghty (doing his best Dave Gibbons imitation) bring it to visual life. I'd buy it.<br /><br />- Peter Adamson<br /><br />References: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_Magazine">Doctor Who Magazine</a></blockquote>TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-14478571844963806772009-03-16T20:58:00.003+13:002009-03-16T21:05:50.101+13:00Phillip J Gray<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2RFTlRtdSoPoZxmz8cLlkRWcshKApV4Tmb7Q92Y4stN04cEmlz9dfvK8nl6VKZ_lg4IL13XwVglcVmbqG-_AnSYPzWz90EAB85CCdtIi5DxgCfkDivb8TVKQelY1PKE9OYZo38qcpfBE/s1600-h/pjgdr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2RFTlRtdSoPoZxmz8cLlkRWcshKApV4Tmb7Q92Y4stN04cEmlz9dfvK8nl6VKZ_lg4IL13XwVglcVmbqG-_AnSYPzWz90EAB85CCdtIi5DxgCfkDivb8TVKQelY1PKE9OYZo38qcpfBE/s200/pjgdr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313692221365559858" border="0" /></a><br />Phillip Gray was one of those canvassed for material when <span style="font-weight: bold;">RTP!</span> was first mooted, being a resident of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch">Christchurch</a> like the editors. Unlike most of those approached, Phillip didn't contribute anything to the first issue — nor any issue after that either. As a result the editors made numerous references to Phillip, culminating with the above picture in issue 5 illustrated by Garry Jackson to accompany Wade Campbell's opinion page.TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-10068389513964366742009-02-24T18:35:00.002+13:002009-02-24T18:36:47.066+13:00Fanzines Reviewing Fanzines - RTP! #27 Part 2Thanks to Peter for pointing out another <a href="http://jamasenright.blogspot.com/2009/01/regarding-rtp-27.html">review</a> of the most recent issue.TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-39428295819216107692008-12-19T23:02:00.002+13:002008-12-19T23:05:36.288+13:00Fanzines Reviewing Fanzines - RTP! #27The latest issue of <span style="font-weight: bold;">RTP!</span> (#27) has been reviewed by <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.zeusblog.tetrap.com">Zeus Blog</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></span>reviewer Alistair Hughes.<br /><br />Take a look <a href="http://www.zeusblog.tetrap.com/?p=638">here</a> to read.TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-81119769231999760932008-12-17T18:42:00.005+13:002008-12-17T18:51:12.812+13:00If - "The Killer Cats of Gen-Singh"A continuing series in which Peter Adamson investigates some of the stories that never quite made it to the screen. This issue, the Fourth Doctor adventure, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Killer Cats of Gen-Singh</span> ...<br /><br /><blockquote>We don' t have a lot to go on regarding <span style="font-style: italic;">Cats</span>, but perhaps what there does exist and is known to have happened around its first commission and eventual rejection will be enough. Perhaps. Let's go.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Cats</span> was to have been the season closer of Season Fifteen after Graham Williams suggested a sequel by Robert Holmes to <span style="font-style: italic;">The Deadly Assassin</span>. Holmes declined and <span style="font-style: italic;">Cats</span> was its initial replacement. The season had already undergone some considerable change throughout its production, having suffered from the usual conflict of lofty ideas versus limited budget (perhaps to a more spectacular degree in stories such as <span style="font-style: italic;">The Invisible Enemy</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Underworld</span>, the latter having been "saved" though the use of extensive CSO, a factor which would be its critical downfall for many years). Already then, the seeds for <span style="font-style: italic;">Cats</span>' early shelving were sown, a fact not helped by the now widely celebrated but infamous "<a href="http://www.wembleystadium.com/">Wembly Park Stadium</a>" scene, reputed to have hosted up to 96,000 extras in full feline attire. But <span style="font-style: italic;">Cats</span> might not have been entirely lost just through one scene, which could still have been realised alternatively with, say, forced perspective (see: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Twin Dilemma</span>). The script must have had its problems. What were they? Unfortunately, these remain unknown.<br /><br />Certainly some elements of <span style="font-style: italic;">Cats</span> survived to be realised in its eventual replacement, and this should come as no surprise given the rushed schedule to complete the season line-up, along with the co-writing credit by the season's Script Editor. <span style="font-style: italic;">The Invasion of Time </span>kept the Gallifreyan setting, and it might not be too much of a stretch to imagine the felines taking their place within this model. A Sontaran beach-head model at this stage sounds unlikely, but maybe their part was as the aggressor - an attempt by them made on the Capitol? Who can say?<br /><br />But what of the Killer Cats themselves? All we have to go on is a set of costume designs by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733457/">Dee Robson</a> (showing male and female versions), and what costumes they looked to be! The Cats would have worn flowing robes according to the design sketches, which by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Who</span> terms usually spells two things: civilisation and nobility. Perhaps they were a race as old as the Time Lords themselves. Were they a civilised race betrayed by one of their number who was either ambitious or foolhardy? Perhaps they were the precursors to <span style="font-style: italic;">Invasion</span>'s "Outsiders" - the idea of Leela leaving the TARDIS for a life among the felines seems plausible. One thing is certain with <span style="font-style: italic;">Cats</span> however; the series' vision of Gallifrey would have undergone yet another change with the introduction of this new native race.<br /><br />In some way, with what we know of what followed in the series some of this might not have made a complete clash; we know from <span style="font-style: italic;">Mark of the Rani </span>that cats exist on Gallifrey, and this idea was extended in the Missing Adventures (<span style="font-style: italic;">Goth Opera</span> had the Doctor reminiscing over introducing cats into the planet's biosphere; <span style="font-style: italic;">Invasion of the Cat People</span> linked the book's villains with the Cheetah People and the Killer Cats as relatives). Who knows what fan theories might have sprung up regarding the sixth Doctor's choice of moggy badges had <span style="font-style: italic;">Cats</span> seen production? Far more significant though, would have been the change to Gallifrey within the series. Unless the appearance of the Cats comes as some sort of contrivance (they reappear after returning from a long journey, a la the Minyans of <span style="font-style: italic;">Underworld</span>, or are "woken" from slumber. A catnap if you will) then we must assume that they have always been part of Gallifrey. The only alternative is the contrivance, and this might perhaps have saved the overpopulation problem of the story. Survivors of thought-dead races in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Who</span> usually number under ten - often under five (Zygons, Kraals).<br /><br />Problem solved? Maybe not. After all the supposition, the most famous aspect of <span style="font-style: italic;">Cats</span> is that Wembly Stadium concept. As a season closer, a handful of monsters, grand, ancient and noble as they may be, makes less than impressive television. But then so did the Vardans apparently, which really just goes to show how much of a gamble the whole game becomes in the end.<br /><br />- Peter Adamson</blockquote>TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-92202540405876231692008-11-21T21:49:00.002+13:002008-11-21T21:51:54.410+13:00Now That's What I Call RTP! 27<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWBvMyUkG_ehXy8hbQrGUJFd8aGOYR2dz5Fcj4b5es_Foni9KQAYLuQtb2qa1un0Tx7-QnEbEHzO5LqRR0pJOYfqmtFHJSLz0FKN2i-jtIVbvE_Li8SlZDL04OAzJfzZNmg2UgJzHSwM/s1600-h/rtp27.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 143px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWBvMyUkG_ehXy8hbQrGUJFd8aGOYR2dz5Fcj4b5es_Foni9KQAYLuQtb2qa1un0Tx7-QnEbEHzO5LqRR0pJOYfqmtFHJSLz0FKN2i-jtIVbvE_Li8SlZDL04OAzJfzZNmg2UgJzHSwM/s200/rtp27.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271030464540859330" border="0" /></a>Packed with the summer's biggest hits and more. <span style="font-weight: bold;">RTP!</span> #27 is now available ...TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973878092237539802.post-6006726778903902592008-10-21T20:34:00.004+13:002009-03-16T21:14:50.889+13:00F-f-f-f-f-fourteen<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6C7XLcKTaI2OwN8qQivpBXFewNOX9BhDPqJLDWob4k0KJEWByuTEMGMpJfEflro5sIKVj9F1VoQy5HySadxh_MU6Cws1K43iqLv3A2gHN8Obq_EQKyuCD2DMm44qzgaEG5K_X_F-LuU4/s1600-h/rtp14.GIF"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6C7XLcKTaI2OwN8qQivpBXFewNOX9BhDPqJLDWob4k0KJEWByuTEMGMpJfEflro5sIKVj9F1VoQy5HySadxh_MU6Cws1K43iqLv3A2gHN8Obq_EQKyuCD2DMm44qzgaEG5K_X_F-LuU4/s200/rtp14.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259507617289150850" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Issue 14 was all about coming to ground after three years overseas. I returned to New Zealand in the May of 2003 and promptly a month later published issue 14 which I'd been working on since the previous November whilst still in Japan. The choice of cover paper was dictated by the idea that I wanted it to be full colour on the back and bleed to white on the front to help sell the Ice Warrior-in-a-snow storm idea of the cover art. Like most things to do with <span style="font-weight: bold;">RTP!</span> it didn't quite work!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Bob the Suicidal Dalek</span> is advertised this issue having been doodled whilst at work in Japan the year before and would see print in the following issue. Meanwhile this would prove to be the final issue to which Jeff Stone would contribute. He did have a further <span style="font-weight: bold;">Doctor Who</span> Bullsh*t lined up for issue 15, but upon being asked by myself to alter some names in the story so as not to alienate my tiny readership Jeff refused to allow the story to be printed unless unchanged. Stalemate. And life went on and <span style="font-weight: bold;">RTP!</span> was published without his efforts.<br /><br />And the editorial:<br /></span><blockquote><b>Forty Years Young ...</b><br /><br />2003.<br />The series has almost reached 40 years of age and is now at a point we generally call middle-aged. Which leads me to ponder two questions: 1) has the series aged gracefully?; and 2) is the series experiencing a mid-life crisis?<br />Can a TV series age gracefully? I think a series can, but most never manage this feat from either being cut short by management focused solely on ratings and demographics, or limping past their used-by-date and dying a painful death long after their audience has switched channels to watch something new. Everybody has their own ideas as to when the later happens, hence the book and web site Jump The Shark. Take a visit to the web site and have a look at when people think the series 'jumped the shark'.<br />However this is an editorial and, more importantly, it is *my* editorial. So I can waffle on a bit now about *my* thoughts on these two important questions. Given that I haven't seen <b>Doctor Who</b> rushing out to buy a sports car, getting hair replacement therapy or trying to be trendy buy cashing in on the latest passing fad, I can only assume that it is *not* having a mid-life crisis. (It can be argued that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Star Trek</span> on the other hand is having a mid-life crisis, hence the alleged emphasis on tits and arse in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Enterprise"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enterprise</span></a>.)<br />Is <b>Doctor Who</b> aging gracefully? Some fans would point to the maturity of the now twelve year old range of original novels and that it feels secure enough to 'reboot' the series, such as with the events of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancestor_Cell"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Ancestor Cell</span></a>. Others still will gesticulate wildly toward the <a href="http://bigfinish.com/">Big Finish</a> audios and the way in which the last four Doctors are making use of the opportunity to flesh out their characters far beyond anything they achieved on the small screen. Again other fans will point to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_Magazine"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DWM</span></a> comic strip and the fact that it is happy to play with big stakes and take risks such as the <span style="font-style: italic;">Wormwood</span> saga or more recently with Izzy's transformation.<br />I can't comment of any of these developments in the <b>Doctor Who</b> universe as I don't get <span style="font-weight: bold;">DWM</span>, the Big Finish audios or the BBC books. So I'll stick with the TV series. I feel that maybe the series had its mid-life crisis in the Eighties where it tried to re-invent itself several times from the basics of storytelling to the extras like theme arrangements. Because of that, I believe that the series is *now* the 'crotchety old man' of the sci-fi world and therefore holds the revered place of 'elder statesman' with <b>Star Trek</b> as the pretender to the throne. This is subject to change should the series return to TV screens.<br />As a result of this mid-life crisis in the Eighties, the various spin-offs and continuations of the series in other forms of media are much stronger than they would be if that crisis hadn't happened. It turned out to be a much needed wake-up call that allowed everybody (both the fans and the people producing the series) and to step back and see the larger picture, something that hasn't happened with the <b>Star Trek</b> franchise yet.<br />So, yes the series has managed to age gracefully and no it is not having a mid-life crisis, but is instead planning of what to do now that said crisis is over. Should it make a big comeback or slip quietly into retirement? Time will tell, it always does ..."<br />- Alexander Ballingall <span style="font-size:100%;"></span></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;">Monty Python's Life of Guff:<br /><br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;"> Published: June 2003<br />A <b>Doctor Who</b> Fanzine launched by Matt Kamstra & Wade Campbell in October 1997<br />Editor: Alexander Ballingall<br />RTP! Logo Design: Peter & Bridget Adamson<br />Front Cover: David Ronayne<br />Back Cover: David Ronayne<br />Internal Artwork: Peter Adamson, Alexander Ballingall, David Ronayne<br />Letters: Peter Adamson, Alden Bates, E. Cartman [aka David Ronayne], Jamas Enright, David Ronayne, Jeff Stone, Sal Yardley [aka David Ronayne]<br />Page Count: 52<br />Print Run: 30<br />Price: NZ$3<br /><br />~ Contents ~</span><br /><ul><li>[01] COVER</li><li> [02] CONTENTS</li><li> [03] The FIRST LAW of TIME</li><li> [04] The TARDIS Manual</li><li> [05] The BOOTCUPBOARD [Letters]</li><li> [09] <span style="font-weight: bold;">Doctor Who</span> Bullsh*t: Report from the Front!!!!</li><li> [12] COMIC: <span style="font-style: italic;">Pulp Who - The Master and Saucer Smith's Wife</span> [part 2 of 3]</li><li> [18] ARTICLE: The Fractious Paradox</li><li> [30] ARTICLE: Genre Benders</li><li> [33] FICTION: <span style="font-style: italic;">A Taste for Killing</span></li><li> [34] INTERVIEW: All Kneel and Praise Her [Jamas Enright]<br /></li><li> [41] REVIEWS: The First Fifty [EDAs and PDAs]</li><li> [45] REVIEW: The Scope [DVD Review]</li><li> [46] CARTOON: <span style="font-style: italic;">Aquaman - In 'Crackerjack - A tragedy in Two Pages'</span></li><li> [48] The New <span style="font-weight: bold;">RTP!</span> Logo</li><li> [50] Are You a Fanboy or a Mad Scientist?</li><li> [52] COVER </li></ul>TheEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10170033992360937111noreply@blogger.com0