Simmy's Tales: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Part 2

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The family is growing! Last week we told you that Simmy was going to meet some new friends and here we are... Jack and Ianto are going to join the Master in this unexpected holiday in the Seventies, but the great problem is still unfixed: Gene's collection was ruined by Baby Yana and if they don't want to be killed they have to sort out a solution!!!!

Of course the Back to The Future quote is intentional XD

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Character Files: Amy & Rory

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Amelia Pond, Rory The Roman and a spiteful Silent

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June 2011

And here comes the summer! After a lot of new stuff, contests and more, it's time to come back to the origin! A good set of funny strips to welcome the new season!

In the Comic Who universe, the Doctors live in a flat, so I suppose they have to pay for the rent and the bills. They need a job to go on with their life and which better place then the Doctor Who Experience?

For the second time we go into the Comic Who world, this time directly into a strip. Yep, the guy and the girl visiting the Experience are me and Elisa. If you don't remember our first appearence, look at this!

Another way to make moneys is sublet a room and the Doctors carefully chose their new tenants... they wanted someone to help them deal with stress, but things often turn out to backfire. This is a two part story in which we introduce the Adiposes for the first time.

You can see a sort of correspondence between the Adiposes and the Doctors and the blue screwdriver is mended because of this accident! Did you notice the Rose doll? We are going to talk about it in another post ;-)

It's time for a new Comic Who Confidential, this time we're going to interview Eccly behind the scenes asking him a few questions about his life and his friends.

This was a sort of experiment but I think it's been successful and people asked us new interviews, and I think they're coming in 2012.

See you tomorrow!

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April 2011

April started with a sort of April's fool! Have you ever had that kind of ideas that you think: Hey, it's the silliest idea ever but it's pure genius! Well, I had that idea!

One of the greatest moments in series 5 it's the Stonehenge speech! I know it by heart! Sometimes I say it out loud, even in public places! But take a moment to think about it, think about every single enemy of the Doctor listening to that words, they know exactly what the Pandorica is an the fact that they aren't there to take control over it! Think about what you would do in their place... I think I would have laughed out loud in Nelson style! If you're a Dalek or a Cyberman or whatever you pretend to be, the Stonehenge speech is one of the funniest moments in your life, so it's perfect to fool!

Look carefully to the first and the third panel, oh yes, that's Limeykins, we're starting to put it here and there like a mascotte! But I'm not talking about it! There's a very special Roman in this strip. I'm talking about Rory, he is my favourite character and we're going to give him more and more importance, starting from the next strip...

This time the idea is from the special Christmas Invasion where a newly regenerated Doctor talk about a big threatening button. The story is all about Amy, she is one of the smartest companion of all times, so we thought she would even fool the Doctor just to borrow the TARDIS (Ok, I know, Borrow and TARDIS are two words that should never be in the same sentence)

Have you noticed the TARDIS in the background? ^_^

During April we also opened a Tumblr account, we started to note we were receiving a lot of visits from that social network, so why not open an official account?  And here we are!

Tumblr is a place where we could share everything we want and reblog what we like... we found pictures of followers, fanart or even simple comments that we simply loved to reblog.

Sometimes we publish pictures or charts or ideas, so, if you like our tiny world and you have a Tumblr account for yourself, don't esitate to follow us! It's like a secondary blog for a little more fun with more than one thousand followers! Instead, if you want a more direct contact with us, don't forget to join our Facebook page!

April 18 is the birthday of David Tennant, formerly known as the 10th Doctor. This year his birthday fell on Monday, so we wanted to celebrate him with a full strip. A sort of Mastercard Commercial with Tenny as the main character and with the guest appearence of all the other Doctors (eleven characters on a single panel... Elisa hated me!!!)

Now the sad stuff! This April we lost a great actress and one of the best companions the Doctor ever had... Elisabet 'Liz' Sladen passed away after a long fight against cancer. She was (and she will ever be) Sarah Jane Smith and we would like to remember her with the following strip:

I don't want to add any word after this strip, so i just invite you to join The Elisabeth Sladen Memorial Page!

See you tomorrow with a new month and, over all, the results of our first contest!

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Happy Birthday Karen Gillan

Today is the birthday of one of the best companion ever (well, except for Rory ^_^).
We would like to celebrate this day in Comic Who style and we really wish her a great day and... hey, Smithy, what are you doing? That's not a Fish Finger and Custard cake!

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Bananas Are Good

The first question. The oldest question in the Universe. The question that must never be answered. Hidden in plain sight. The question you're running from all of your life: "Why bananas?"
Rose will try to answer... check it out!

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Puppet Show

I think this one doesn't need any comment from me!

I just noticed how much loved was the Rose Doll even if it appears briefly in a Pinup and in the last panel of a strip, so I thought... what the hell... just use it ^_^

Hope you like it!

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Bad Feelings

A few months ago I asked on our Facebook Page what kind of subject they would like to see covered on our strips. A lot of fan asked us to introduce the character of Jenny (10th Doctor's daughter). It was quite hard to find a good way to introduce her, but then I thought about what would happen if Jenny had appeared during a date between the Doctor and River...and what if the Doctor wasn't Tenny? Check it out!

This was just an experiment, but if you like it, I will try to increasingly involve the Facebook community. One last thing, we added a little easter egg into the strip. It's quite easy to find it, but I think it's still funny ^_^

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Rory The Roman

You know, the Doctor Who main character is no longer the Doctor himself. A new rising star has overshadowed him...

I'm a male, but I love him with both my hearts, just one quote: "Would you like me to repeat the question?"

Ok, you know who I'm talking about, the last centurion, the boy who waited, the man who lived more then the Doctor and died so many times: Rory The Roman!!!

A great friend of us (and a great Doctor Who fan), Chiara Cavalli, realized a Rory staff doll for us upon Elisa's design and we want to share with you all the magnificence of her creation! Enjoy the gallery...

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Comic Who Confidential - Valentine's Outtake

Today, with the new Comic Who Confidential, we go behind the scenes. Infact, not all strips are good at the first ciak, there is always someone who wants a little fun and in the end everyone laughs and the work has to be redone. On Valentine's Day our heroes had to reshoot the scene 42 times because Limeykins absolutely wanted to play the Smithy's role.

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Marital Problems

Our little doctors have had so many problem in the past with their companions, but what about their... wives? This is the answer of our friend Michela Magnani who wrote this story drawn by Elisa.

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Chez Doctor

We know that the Doctor is great at cooking... well, sometimes... I really can't imagine how disgusting must be fish fingers and custard but, hey, have you ever imagined what they eat on Gallifrey? The companions will know it very soon but it will have a price...

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Summer Who

Last week we played a bit with Live Streaming. It was an amazing experience where Elisa realized the PinUp above. Now it's summer and holidays are coming, so we decided to use that illustration to provide you a Summer Collection to be ready for the beach!

Take a look to our Beach Tote and T-Shirts on our Comic Who Shop.

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Live Stream Experience

We tried this new media. We streamed a video of Elisa drawing a new pinup for our summer collection :D

We have a good time with fans, chatting about the comic and Doctor Who and listening to good music (obviously from the DW Soundtrack). 

We love you so much and thank you for the funny moments.

As a gift, this is the result of our Live streaming. The "making of" our first summer Pin Up: Smithy with Amy and Rory, hope you like it :-)

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Comic Who Confidentials: Sherlock

We love new adventures and we want Comic Who to never get old,  so, as we announced, today we are going to introduce a new series of strip. 

Every Doctor Who episode is always accompanied by a Doctor Who Confidential, a sort of documentary with the making of the episode and some other cool stuff. We would like to do a very similar thing. Once a month (the last monday) we will release a special strip with backstages, making of, interviews, outtakes and many more. A joke in the joke, let me say.

So please welcome the Comic Who Confidentials! This first strip is also my first collaboration, infact this story is based on an idea of Michela Magnani, a friend of us who wrote the script with me. It is also our first cross over and my little tribute to the recently closed contest (yes, we still have Jack in this strip :D).

As I told the Comic Who Confidentials are inspired by backstages and who is the man behind the stages? Obviously we are talking about Steven Moffat who recently (well, last year) started to produce a new series with Mark Gatiss: Sherlock. But how the 3 doctors react to the new Moffat's pupil? Let's see!

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Looking for Answers

Last week we celebrated the winner of our contest Jonathan Hodges with his The 12th Doctor, instead this week we have realized the strip for the Fan Choice Award. Our friends on Facebook voted for their favorite script and here is the result. Congratulation to Faith Marie Vinnicombe!!!

Now we can finally say that the contest is really over, but there is still another little surprise for you, also don't forget that next week we will have our first Comic Who Confidential, with a guest writer and a little cross over! Stay tuned!!!

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The Truth Behind Limeykins

Hi ComicWhovians!

The today's post is meant for a different reason, I want to tell about a little and extremely cute and green Teddy Bear which is becoming our mascotte!

In the recent strips we introduced a little bear that lives with the three Doctors and some readers asked us who he is (yes, he, not it :D) and where he come from... The answer is simple, he is just a mistake!!! :D

Just take a look to the following strip, the first featuring Limeykins:

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We wanted to add some cute staff to make Simmy more funny, so Elisa sorted out a green teddy bear, but in the last panel she forgot to draw it. As you can see, in the third panel Simmy left the bear that falls down, but in the forth panel it isn't still there because the Simmy's baloon covered all that area. When I noticed it I just said "Hey, make him run away like the others", so you can find the little bear in the right angle running away from Simmy (or maybe from Yana, who knows).
Anyway, this simple idea makes someone laugh (well, me for example :D) and a girl from deviantArt also named the bear. And when you give a name to something, you start to love it, and now we love Limeykins!
It was a funny thing but it could end there... At that moment we had already written  scripts until July (at this moment we have script scheduled until the end of October and, yes, this year Halloween falls on Monday :D), so we couldn't simply add a new character in every strip... But mistakes are always helpful and another one leads the way to the full integration of Limeykins in our stories. Just take a look to the following strip:

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This strip was supposed to take fool of the Stonehenge speech. As you can see, the Doctor is standing on a stone, right in the middle of a stone to be more precise. This time Smithy is a bit decentralized on his stone leaving a good amount of free space on the right... and there comes the idea... we decide to fill that space with Limeykins shaking his hand like Smithy.
We received good comments and people liked the idea. For some unknown reasons, Limeykins decided to leave Simmy and went to live with the three Doctors. Adding him in every strip is quite easy... sometimes he just do a little cameo, but sometimes he also "do stuff". For instance, in Carnival Party, when Smithy proposes to go the Simmy's party, Limeykins is scared and in the following panel he goes away on tiptoe, just like he doesn't love the idea to meet his old "friend" (well, I don't think he has anything against Simmy, I think that he doesn't have a good feeling with little Yana... but it's just an idea, maybe we will ask him in a future Comic Who Confidential). Just a last word about the Stonehenge strip... did anybody noticed Rory? ;-)

Anyway, this is how the idea cames out and I hope you like this new character. I'm quite sure that we will see more about him in the near future! Following all the strips featuring our new mascotte:

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