July 17th, 2013
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BBC Worldwide and IDW Publishing Celebrate Doctor Who
BBC Worldwide and IDW Publishing Celebrate Doctor Who
San Diego, CA (July 17, 2013)—IDW Publishing and BBC Worldwide will conclude their joint celebration of the Doctor’s 50th anniversary with the release of a Doctor Who Special the final week of 2013. This oversize issue will be written by fan-favorite Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell and features art by Jimmy Broxton.
In this special one-shot story, a strange force flings the TARDIS and the Doctor into our own universe! Once here, the Doctor encounters a 10-year-old girl who happens to be a huge fan of the Doctor Who TV show. The Doctor grapples with being a fictional character as well as and a monster lurking at the girl’s school on the way to coming face-to-face with the actor who portrays him, Matt Smith!
BBC Worldwide and IDW have worked together since 2007. For the 50th Anniversary celebration, IDW launched a new ongoing series led by writer Andy Diggle, and the new Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time, an extended maxi-series that spotlights all eleven Doctors. Additionally, IDW brought forth the first-ever Doctor Who crossover in any medium, the 2012 Star Trek: The Next Generation/ Doctor Who event series Assimilation2. The BBC Worldwide/IDW partnership will conclude following the end of these 50th anniversary celebrations in December.
“IDW is a great partner and we’re very proud of the comics that we have created and released together. By extending our partnership, we are able to provide Doctor Who fans with more than 20 additional titles in celebration of the 50th Anniversary,” states Soumya Sriraman, Executive Vice President Home Entertainment and Licensing.
“We’ve been extremely proud to be the American home to new Doctor Who comics these last six years,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief. “We feel like we’ve said a great many things with our comics—so it now feels like a good time to let Doctor Who comics regenerate along with the coming new Doctor on the TV series.”
IDW was the first American comic-book publisher to produce original Doctor Who comic books, starting in early 2008 with the release of Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur. IDW also released the first Doctor Who comic to bring every iteration of the Doctor into one series in Doctor Who: The Forgotten.
BBC Worldwide will announce the plans for 2014 in the next coming weeks.
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TheIrishGallifreyan
July 23rd, 2013 - 1:12pmSimilar to Red Dwarf: Back to Earth then.
DOCTOR WHO ONE
July 28th, 2013 - 6:04pmBasically – YES 😉
The Whovastatron
July 20th, 2013 - 1:33pmIf I knew where I could get these comics then I would definately get this.
TW.
GeneralRose
July 20th, 2013 - 4:51pmTry amazon.com
Love DoctorWho
July 29th, 2013 - 10:24amYou can get them at forbidden planet London megastore, downstairs in the comic section
Anonymous
July 18th, 2013 - 7:13pmThe first crossover in any medium?
It doesn’t matter if people hate it Dimensions in Time beat you by nearly fifteen years.
The 3rd Doctor
July 18th, 2013 - 7:10amI Agree with that!
The 3rd Doctor
July 18th, 2013 - 7:10amDalek Sec
Dalek Sec
July 18th, 2013 - 4:15amSounds like something my 13 year old self would want to happen. Hopefully this won’t be like an fanfic written by some crazed fangirl.
DoctorArkham
July 18th, 2013 - 6:31pmIt says its written by Paul Cornell.
Dalek The Supreme
July 18th, 2013 - 1:24amSounds interesting! Especially considering this company makes Transformers comics (Though I sadly haven’t read them)
Sonichammer
July 18th, 2013 - 12:59amThis was just posted by Charlie Kirchoff (Colourist at IDW) ON Facebook … “IDW/BBC’s partnership ends at the end of the year. Working on Dr. Who comics has been my life since ’07. It’s a shock that this chapter will soon be closed. But at least I have a ton of Who working through to the end of the year!”
This is a sad day
Mels
August 12th, 2013 - 3:13amWow, I wasn’t expecting that either. IDW have done a lot of great things with the comic series, and I wasn’t expecting them to stop any time soon.
MAXP
July 18th, 2013 - 12:17amI must say despite the fact it’s been done over and over (the 90’s Spider-man animation also did it, Marvel comics did it with their 1984 series a few years back) I think it’s a truly naff idea. Totally damages the suspension of disbelief and 4th wall factors with this pseudo-reflexive silly-ness.
Shane
July 18th, 2013 - 10:15amI toltally agree. While watching Doctor Who (or any TV show) that show is “real” and takes place in “our” universe unless stated otherwise. Saying that it is in another universe and somehow bleeds its way into our one as a fictional show destroys it. Some people (*cough* Tumblr fangirls *cough*)love the idea as it makes it more plausible that the whole thing is real, albeit in another universe but for me the opposite effect is true and makes Doctor Who less realistic, literally saying he is fictional within the medium itself.
ExiledinGeeksville
July 17th, 2013 - 9:03pmWell if there was any writer who could do this without it being a total fanfic it’s Cornell.
Am I reading this correctly, that IDW will not have the Doctor Who license after this year?
Daibhid C
July 17th, 2013 - 9:27pmAll the best ideas for aniversary specials sound like bad fanfic … having all the Doctors meet, for example. You get away with it because it’s an aniversary special.
It’s also not even the first time a Doctor Who comic has celebrated an aniversary with this idea; the comic strip for DWM’s 20th aniversary involved the 8th Doctor going back to 1979 and meeting Tom Baker!
THE ENIGMATIC WATCHER
July 17th, 2013 - 9:00pmThat actually sounds very good! I’ll have to track this down when it comes out!
AlphaOmega
July 17th, 2013 - 8:58pmHow’s he gonna react when the girl tells him he’s gonna regenerate at Christmas XDDD
MAXP
July 18th, 2013 - 2:02amFunny! And now he can also watch old episodes of himself and say “damn, some of the monsters I’ve fought like the giant rat in the sewers and the Myrka look a bit fake and lame in this universe.”
Esterath13
July 17th, 2013 - 8:56pmRed Dwarf did and it was terrible. So why would Doctor Who follow suit..?
DOCTOR WHO ONE
July 17th, 2013 - 8:21pmIt’s been done –
RED DWARF – BACK TO EARTH 😉
MasterKasterborous
July 17th, 2013 - 8:36pmThat was exact same thought.
Daff
July 17th, 2013 - 8:20pmits been done over and over, League of Gentlemen did it, Red Dwarf did it, so why not Doctor Who, this sounds pretty fun i’ll buy it
DOCTOR WHO ONE
July 17th, 2013 - 8:22pmHa, just as I post my comment, you mention good old Red Dwarf as well.
Great minds think a like 😀
Trenzalore
July 17th, 2013 - 8:16pmWill probably get VERY confusing
Explosive Cookie
July 17th, 2013 - 8:14pmSounds like a fan fic….but it’ll be interesting…I guess. May get a copy
Doctor Who Crazy Ross
July 17th, 2013 - 8:11pmNo, I don’t like this idea at all.
Fezmeister
July 17th, 2013 - 8:09pmUmm…
I’m really not liking this idea. It’s like a bad fanfic.