Big Finish get River Song (and lots more!)

[Allyn Gibson]

I think of BF companions, only Charley was mentioned in of the Tenth Doctor's comic series. I read that somewhere.

She was. it happens in Tony Lee's tenth Doctor series for IDW. She's brought up at the Doctor's trial when the Shadow Proclamation tries him for violating a fixed point in time.

I just looked at the last two issues of Prisoners of Time to see if I could spot anyone non-television, and I didn't.

 

[Stevil2001]

In the opening scene of issue 1 of Prisoners of Time there's a guy with a hat that I cannot guess who they are intended to be if they're not Thomas Brewster. (The artist for that issue is not good at likenesses.)

 

[The Four Doctor]

Has Jim Jones/Jonestown ever been mentioned in Who? Maybe the Doctor could have been a friend of Congressman Ryan?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

^I think DarthPipes was suggesting the reverse, taking comics companions and using them in Big Finish productions.

Yeah, I know he was but that's what prompted my curiosity on the matter.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Has Jim Jones/Jonestown ever been mentioned in Who? Maybe the Doctor could have been a friend of Congressman Ryan?

What an odd question. But, I gather the Doctor prevented all those people from dying.

I mean, its sci-fi fantasy, so why not, right?

 

[The Four Doctor]

Given the lengths Congressman Ryan went to help people even before Jonestown, it's easy to imagine the Doctor having heard of him, if not knowing him personally. And it's not as if the Doctor hasn't let tragedy run its course elsewhere. There's also at least one historical figure kidnapped by the Rani in the tv series where it's thought by many that returning the figure to their time and place must have been one of the hardest things for the Doctor to do, given the figure's historical fate.

 

[Christopher]

^Oh, you mean Hypatia in "Time and the Rani," right?

 

[The Four Doctor]

Right.

 

[Stevil2001]

In the opening scene of issue 1 of Prisoners of Time there's a guy with a hat that I cannot guess who they are intended to be if they're not Thomas Brewster. (The artist for that issue is not good at likenesses.)

Oh, wait, that's Dodo. Like I said, Simon Fraser is terrible at likenesses.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

In the opening scene of issue 1 of Prisoners of Time there's a guy with a hat that I cannot guess who they are intended to be if they're not Thomas Brewster. (The artist for that issue is not good at likenesses.)

Oh, wait, that's Dodo. Like I said, Simon Fraser is terrible at likenesses.

Simon Fraser isn't any sort of likeness artist, yet I like his work on Titan's eleventh Doctor comics. His eleventh Doctor is recognizable there in a way that he's not on the first page of Prisoners of Time. He evokes the idea of the eleventh Doctor or the War Doctor in his latest work. His Abslom Daak is more on point and truer to Steve Dillon's artwork than his eleventh Doctor resembles Matt Smith, yet both work.

 

[Stevil2001]

I don't think a tie-in comic artist has to do perfect likenesses, just capture the essence of the characters... but I should be able to tell the difference between Thomas Brewster and Dodo Chaplet! He probably would have been find on any issue of Prisoners of Time with a more limited cast of characters. I haven't dipped into the Titan stuff yet.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Big Finish has announced The Diary of River Song 2, this time teaming River with the sixth and seventh Doctors.

 

[ATimson]

I'm looking forward to that. And possibly to Classic Doctors, New Monsters 2. Not sure whether I want to pick up the second Churchill Years volume, though... It's definitely my least favorite of the new series material so far.

I like audiobooks. I like audiodramas. I just have trouble wrapping my head around the hybrid format.