Character Files: The Master

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Simmy & Baby Yana

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March 2011

Here we are with another appointment with the Comic Who history! March was a very special month with a lot of new stuff.

We started with one of my favourite strips: At the beginning, we faced the problem of Eccly and Tenny's screwdriver. In the TV series they share the same one, only Smithy has his own. So we thought it could be funny to make them fight for it. The idea was simple but Elisa made it great:

In the second panel they break the "blu" screwdriver, this is a tiny element we carried on in the next strips. Everytime we had a close-up on that screwdriver, we drew it mended with a plaster. We loved the fact that some followers noted it... thanks guys!

One of the biggest events on March was the beginning of our first contest. We invited our fans to join the creative process that gives birth to our strips. Every participant sent us a script (like the one I use to write) and we (with the help of a great jury) choosed the best script. 

There were rewards and Elisa has realized the winning strips (yes, plural, other than the prize of the jury, we let our Facebook followers to vote for their favorite script)

The competition was held the day of John Borrowman's birthday, so we decided to dedicate it to his Doctor Who (and Torchwood) character: Jack Harkness!

We received more then twenty scripts, but we're going to talk about the results in one of the next posts, when we are going to show you also the strips realized for it.

Just one last thing, warm up your keybords and be ready, because we're going to held a new script contest in the next months and this time the first prize will be something extremely special, I'm sure you're going to fight for it!

The next set of strips was our first story divided in different parts. As we told in the last post, we decided to introduce more then one Master. The idea came from the end of series three, when the Master regenerates inside the TARDIS. He told "If The Doctor can be young and strong, then so can I"... young... younger then ever... too much young!!!!

Yana will be a regular character as Simmy, they are going to live together as a family... a very strange family, but hey, this is the Comic Who world!
In the second strip we introduced for the first time alle the companion and we tried to outline the nature of each Doctor (Exterminate! :D)
The last strip  is very important because it was also the first appearence of a new character: Limeykins, the green teddy bear you can se with Simmy! It began as a sort of mistake from Elisa and became suddenly one of our favourite characters! Read The Truth Behind Limeykins to know more about it!

That's all folks! See you tomorrow!

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Christmas Special

Back in the 70's Simmy is going to celebrate Christmas alone with baby Yana! But you know, at Christmas time miracles do happen and sometime even foes become friends! 

Simmy's going to leave the 70's, but I promise, next year we'll have more Classic Who. This is our last strip for 2011 and it's also the last strip for our first year... We're getting older; January 14, 2011 we start this wonderful journey and now, with 2000 followers on Facebook, 1000 followers on Tumblr and more then 300 regular followers on Blogger, we are going to celebrate our birthday with you all! Prepare yourself, because celebrations will start on New Year's day!

Merry Christmas to you and your families from the Comic Who Staff!

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Yana Against Bakey Jr. - Part 2

Last call for our contest! You have only one day to send us your work, so don't waste time anymore!

Last time we left Yana and Bakey Jr. in a fight. Children are more impulsive, this is why adults have to take care of them and they must set a good example... or maybe not! Simmy's adventures in the 70s continue, but they are going to reach a conclusion with the Christmas special, so stay tuned!

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Yana Against Bakey Jr. - Part 1

Simmy is still stuck in 70s with Baby Yana, but every age has its Doctor and the '74 is the year of a brand new Doctor. We have already met Bakey while he pays a visit to Rory. But when he is at home, he lives with a younger version of himself (like Simmy do)... we're proud to introduce Bakey Jr. formerly known as the Sixth Doctor.

Try to guess what Yana was trying to build ^_^

Another little remind for you...

3 DAYS REMAINING

The contest is quite over, if you want to join, read the rules here and send your drawings to comicwho@gmail.com

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Time Travel

Before the new strip I have a little remind for you, so be patient and don't look at me with that Cyberman expression:

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Comic Who - Christmas Contest 2011

Don't forget our contest, actually we received 13 entries, but we want more! Only one week remaining, so don't wast time and send us a mail at comicwho@gmail.com with your christmas work.

Remember, the Christmas contest will last on Decmber 23th at 11:59 PM (UTC) and results will be published on this blog on Christmas day!

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We live in a timey wimey world, when I first wrote the script for the today strip, Elisa felt in love with the idea of mixing Doctor Who and Life on Mars because of Simmy... when I came back from work she showed me the sketch for this pinup. But while we have a long running schedule for the strips, we just publish pinup whenever they come out from Elisa's mind, so the today story is the "first part" of that story. This is also the first of a four part story which will end with the Christmas Special, so get ready, because we're going to release a lot of strip from today to the Christmas Day!

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Sweet Dreams

It's a lot of time from the last strip with Simmy, now he lives with baby Yana, but he's still missing something and sometimes, when it's late at night, that something comes to his dreams making him happy... but then he has to wake up.... suddenly... you know, daddy's duty!

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Carnival Party

Did you loose the greatest carnival party ever? Well, maybe a TARDIS would fix this, but before leave you to the strip, I've something to share with you!

As you may know, yesterday we published the results of our contest! The winner is Jonathan Hodges with his script titled "The 12th Doctor". Next week we will see this script transformed in a real strip, but now we have something else to do: The Fan Choice Award! 

It's your turn to choose your favorite script between the first 10 classified. You can do it going to our Facebook Page (and only on our page) and putting a Like to the script which you prefer. The voting will take place until May, 13 at 11:59 PM UK time and the most liked one will be drawed and published on May, 16. Here is the list of the available scripts:

02 - Hello (Stephanie Millar)
03 - Looking For Answers (Faith Marie Vinnicombe)
04 - Jack looks for Lurv (Holley Drye)
05 - Welcome Back, Jack (Rebecca Hill)
06 - Pears? (Stephanie Osczepinski)
07 - Good Advice (James P. Henderson)
08 - Tenny's House (Julie Damm)
09 - Jack and the power of Ianto's Coffee (Gabriella Serratrice)
10 - Jack And The TARDIS (Jonathan Ross Lusby)

Good voting to you all!!! ^_^

A Little News

Ok, now the contest is over, but there is a lot of stuff we want to share with you! There is no rest for the Comic Who Staff and we are going to introduce a new series of strip this month: it is my pleasure to announce you the beginning of the Comic Who Confidentials! Every last Monday of the month we will release a special strip with interviews to the characters, outtakes, errors, pranks, auditions and much more...

There's another surprise for you this month... Something is coming... on May, 15!

And now... the strip!!!!

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Too Much Young - Part 3

Comic Who - Contest 2011

We are entering the third week of our contest!

We hope to get a lot of partecipants with great stories!

We will transorm the winning script into a real strip so, if you want to be part of our web comic, don't wast your time and join the competition! Read the contest rules and send us your stories. The contest will run until the April, 17th so show us your best and good luck!

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It's time to read the end of this story! What are the Doctors doing to get rid of the young Yana? Will it be the beginning of a new friendship? Check it out!

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Too Much Young - Part 2

Comic Who - Contest 2011

We are entering the second week of our contest!

We hope to get a lot of partecipants with great stories!

We will transorm the winning script into a real strip so, if you want to be part of our web comic, don't wast your time and join the competition! Read the contest rules and send us your stories. The contest will run until the April, 17th so show us your best and good luck!

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In the mean time, it's time for another strip! We left Yana into the TARDIS after his "failed" regeneration! What will happen to him now? And the Doctors? How will they react to this "new entry"?

I think this is one of the cutest strips ever. Elisa has done her best in drawing! No more talking, here it's the strip, see you next time with the ending of this story.

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Too Much Young - Part 1

And here we are with the new weekly strip!

This time a very special one... this is our first story divided in differnt strips... Ok, I know, we have already published strips divided into several parts, but in that cases the strips had a common theme but different stories, instead now we have one story that continues in more strips. And what makes this story so special? The Master!

Anyway, do not forget about our contest! We have already received some scripts, so don't waste your time and join the competition!

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