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futureecho	UNIT appear in 2000AD	Lead	[-]
Posts: 3 (01/25/03 16:13:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I was reading 2000ad as I usually do. (weekly comic featuring Judge Dredd - for all the non-uker non-comic liking people) Anyway I was reading the new strip Cannabalistics INC. which is about some crack paranormal investigation group. In this first story they're investigating the london underground with a large group of unnamed military soldiers. The officer makes mention of previously dealing with robotic Yetis (and he even mentions the name Devil's End) so I guess that means that UNIT has appeared in 2000ad, making it the first 2000ad/Dr Who crossover to my knowledge (although apperently some Dr Who characters have been drawn into the background of some strips... but I've never seen any proof. I could be wrong I've only been reading for just over a year. - Charles
witold tietze	Re: UNIT appear in 2000AD	#1	[-]
Posts: 1023 (01/25/03 17:34:37) BTR Story Editor Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	most likely these dw figures would've appeared during the 80s golden period of british comics, when there was a lot of cross-polination of writers and artists between 2000ad and dwm. excellent names that spring readily to mind are alan moore, dave gibbons, probably john ridgeway, that sort of thing. which reminds me of an amusing little true story. i was reading an old issue of the monthly a little while back, and the editor (good ol' john freeman) was apologising for a delay in the new strip, and seemed very sorry to have to announce that they were going to run with a reprint by a certain chappy by the name of alan moore. (for those who don't know: "from hell", "watchmen", "swamp thing", "tom strong", "promethea", "v for vendetta", "top ten", etc, etc.) which i have to say i found rather astonishing, as i'd take a reprint of a moore strip over most any other dwm writer any day -- particularly in this case as it happened to be an excellent story. now if only those days of yore could be continued, instead of having to persevere with scott gray and his overblown "let's throw in 1000 continuity elements but use them all wrong" uber-epics for the last decade or so. roger langridge: a call. please do more than one strip a year! your recent work on "legends of the dark knight" was excellent, but please don't abandon the baby you can still save from these fiends! nothing is certain. maybe.
mkopelke	Re: UNIT appear in 2000AD	#2	[-]
Posts: 1278 (01/27/03 01:06:44) BTR Producer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just in case anyone is wondering, I moved this thread out of our Doctor Who discussion area, and into the General Discussion area, because at least here it is somewhat on topic. When I die, I want to go peacefully just like my grandfather did - in his sleep. Not screaming like the other passengers in his car.
GazHack	Re: UNIT appear in 2000AD	#3	[-]
Posts: 395 (01/27/03 05:54:34) Phantom Frame Producer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	One amusing crossover occurs in Marvel Comics "Excalibur" series, where Brigadier Aleysdale Stewart led the forces of WHO (Weird Happenings Organisation) in several stories and the spinoff "Knights of Pendragon". Plus the Dr Who version of Merlin appears in Alan Moore's Captain Britain reboot story. Gaz
witold tietze	Re: UNIT appear in 2000AD	#4	[-]
Posts: 1023 (01/27/03 23:33:43) BTR Story Editor Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	good point, matt: our dw forum tends to refer to our dw releases! nothing is certain. maybe.
Guest	interesting stuff	#5	[-]
Posts: 39 (04/15/04 19:40:07) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Comic book crossovers are the stuff of many headaches but are also endlessly fun for those in the know. I thoroughly enjoyed the Incomplete Death's Head mini-series from Marvel which reprinted the original Death's Head run along with his appearance in a Doctor Who magazine short among other things. Marvel have done it a few times, putting other title's characters in the Doctor Who strip, such as the Sleeze Bros. The good thing about the Incomplete Death's Head series was that the Doctor played a key part in the whole thing (the end revelation being that the 7th Doctor had been manipulating the bounty hunter's life all along). And since Death's Head has appeared with characters as diverse as the Transformers, Wolverine, the Fantastic Four and Iron Man (to name a few) that means that the Doctor is but a hair's bredth away from those guys too. Sylvester McCoy versus Wolverine? Could be interesting. Talking of big names on the Doctor Who strip, they're reprinting the Dave Gibbons run in black and white graphic novels at the mo, which is nice. Any who haven't read the stories, check them out, they're damn good. My fav strips in the Doctor Who run however will forever be 'Tides of Time' and 'Voyager' (especially Voyager, great stuff). Classic Comics reprinted Tides in full colour which was gorgeous. Makes me wish there were more graphic novel releases from Mavel. Especially of ultra cool stuff like Dalek Chronicles and the Abslom Daak stories. Myself I'd like to see a full reprint of the Cyberman Chronicles story Doctor Who Magazine ran a few years back. As to other fun but not strictly legal referencing of characters, Top Ten is one comic with a lot of groovy details in the background for those with the time to spot them. Check out the Dalek's head used as a projector, for example, in one of the later issues. Cool stuff. All the best Darran
witold tietze	Re: interesting stuff	#6	[-]
Posts: 1023 (04/16/04 00:01:37) BTR Story Editor Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	was voyager the one with the sixth doctor and frobisher encountering a bunch of intergalactic third world types who, it is revealed late in the day, are being hassled by cybermen? nothing is certain. maybe.
Guest	Nein	#7	[-]
Posts: 39 (04/17/04 19:04:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	No, Voyager is the one with the sixth Doctor and Frobisher where the Doctor is having bizarre dreams of being lashed to the prow of a phantom ship as it sails over the waterfall at the end of worlds, waking to encounter the eccentric Astrolabus in an artctic wasteland, a man who has stolen powerful charts of time and is thus being pursued by a dark force that wants them back. It loops into bizarre magicians cabinets and self referential moments, running through a host of odd stories and characters linked by an overarching mystery and gorgeous artwork. Marvel released a full colour graphic novel collection of it, which also included the first sixth Doctor comic story and Frobishers introduction, a short tale featuring the ruthless business man Dogbolter, who later appears in Death's Head hiring the bounty hunter to kill the seventh Doctor, and more recently I believe (although I have not heard it myself) in the Maltese Penguin audio. As with Tides of Time it was the combination of the epic and the bizarre that made the Voyager piece memorable for me. Wouldn't it be nice if they just released every single Doctor Who comic strip in a series of nice big graphic novels. Maybe with the new series there'll be enough of an audience to warrant such releases. I still lament the loss of Classic Comics which was a title I greatly enjoyed. By the by, has anyone out there read Age of Chaos - the graphic novel release written by Colin Baker? I've never been able to track down a copy alas (or of the Abslom Daak graphic novel either). Alas, these subculture thangs are dashed difficult to find. All the best Darran

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