Now emanating from your local Forbidden Planet: A strange wheezing groaning sound...
If you liked last week's Doctor Who story The Lodger - you know, the flatshare comedy with that fat bloke who upset Sir Jean-Luc Picard the other week - then you may (or likely, may not) be surprised to know it started life as a comic strip in the fabled pages of the official Doctor Who Magazine.
Now, we here at the Thumbcast have always had a soft spot for DWM - even during the Big Finish-obsessed reign of terror a decade ago (when they were happy to dismiss Dan Freedman's wonderfully quirky Death Comes to Time as being for just a few internet nerds, until their started making their own audios, when suddenly it became the best medium ever...). So we're delighted to see the tremendous Vworp Vworp fanzine getting a wider distribution.
There used to be a time when Forbidden Planet - before it became the odd-smelling Twilight toy shop that it is now - was home to the best bits of cult film and telly ephemera, including a vast array of great fanzines from right across the spectrum. These days, of course, if it doesn't have a barcode and an ISBN number they're not remotely interested, which makes Vworp Vworp's appearance on the shop's shelves even more of a delight.
It's a beautiful, glossy, packed-to-the-gills tribute to the DWM comic strip - covering everything from the early days with Dez Skinn and Dave Gibbons through the imperial Parkhouse/Ridgway era stuff like Voyager, then the Lee Sullivan classics of the early 90s, right up to today's plimsoles, bow ties and big-eared Mancunian shenanigans - and even finds time to throw in the likes of Dickie Howett and co's daft comedy strips.
And hell, it's even got the diamond logo and a free set of transfers on the front. What more could you ask for?
While we're on a Doctor Who comics tip, here's an interview Craig and Iain did with the aforementioned Gibbons a wee while back, which touches on his Who stuff - along with Watchmen, 2000AD and a bunch of other things.
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