Frobisher has some competition

[23skidoo]

Looks like IDW is giving DWM's infamous companion Frobisher (the shape-shifting penguin) a run for his money, as anyone who read the latest issue of the regular Doctor Who comic and the Doctor Who Annual 2011 (both of which hit comic shops yesterday) can attest.

What am I talking about?

Spoiler: Doctor Who (IDW comic)

At the end of issue #8, Kevin - a gigantic robot dinosaur with a heart of gold encountered on a planet straight out of Star Trek's "Shore Leave" - joins the TARDIS crew as a companion. The Annual features a story summarizing the first week of his adventures with the Doctor, and he's featured on the "coming next issue" page for issue 9 so he's sticking around for a bit.

Gotta give props to IDW for doing something they couldn't get away with on TV!

Alex

 

[Servo]

I thought this was about John Frobisher, from Children of Earth.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

The conversation Rory and new companion Kevin have the end of the Annual about where they fit in the world was downright touching.

The best story in the annual, and quite possibly one of the best Doctor Who stories of the year in any form, has to be Matthew Dow Smith's "Down to Earth" in the Annual. In the span of eight pages it runs the gamut from pastoral Englishness to alien invasions to quixotic quests, and it subverts every expectation in a very Whovian way. It's 2011's "Vincent and the Doctor," no doubt.

 

[Yminale]

You can't compete with awesomeness. Frobrisher will always be one of the best because of "Holly Terror" It's still one one of the funniest BF audio dramas.

 

[captcalhoun]

the T-rex from the story with multiple parallel universes on one planet? how does he get in the doors?

 

[OmahaStar]

the T-rex from the story with multiple parallel universes on one planet? how does he get in the doors?

They're bigger on the inside, of course.

 

[Davros]

You can't compete with awesomeness. Frobrisher will always be one of the best because of "Holly Terror" It's still one one of the funniest BF audio dramas.

So very true.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

"...Now before you do anything hasty or violent..."

 

[DWF]

I remember in The Big Bang when Amelia knocked over the penquin I was thinking, "She's killed Frobisher!".

 

[Sindatur]

You can't compete with awesomeness. Frobrisher will always be one of the best because of "Holly Terror" It's still one one of the funniest BF audio dramas.

I Googled Wikipedia Frobisher and couldn't track down an audios list for him? I couldn't even Wikipedia Holly Terror?

Can you direct me to an Audioplay listing?

I'd be interested in listening to them, after I get to listen to the Gallifrey stories (Currently listening to a 26 Disk Thomas Covenant book on my commute, almost done with disk 4, when it's done, on to Gallifrey [Shada, Neverland, Zagreus, Gallifrey Adventures]. I listened to Gallifrey Adventures and Shada at work a couple months back, but, lost track at times due to work inerferring with my listening . I'm looking forward to enjoying it on the commute. Neverland and Zagreus will be totally new to me )

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

^Enjoy. I love "Neverland." "Zagreus" has some interesting parts and is a lot of fun simply because of all the actors involved but it drags on a bit. If they'd confined it to 2 CDs instead of 3, I think it would be better. Paul McGann does a lot of pointless ranting that I think the story could do without. But Leela & Romana is total win!

 

[Joy]

You can't compete with awesomeness. Frobrisher will always be one of the best because of "Holly Terror" It's still one one of the funniest BF audio dramas.

I Googled Wikipedia Frobisher and couldn't track down an audios list for him? I couldn't even Wikipedia Holly Terror?

Can you direct me to an Audioplay listing?

I'd be interested in listening to them, after I get to listen to the Gallifrey stories (Currently listening to a 26 Disk Thomas Covenant book on my commute, almost done with disk 4, when it's done, on to Gallifrey [Shada, Neverland, Zagreus, Gallifrey Adventures]. I listened to Gallifrey Adventures and Shada at work a couple months back, but, lost track at times due to work inerferring with my listening . I'm looking forward to enjoying it on the commute. Neverland and Zagreus will be totally new to me )

That's because it's "Holy Terror" with one L. Try that.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

^^ Is Holly Terror the Christmas special?

 

[Stevil2001]

Rob Shearman said there were about five seconds where he considered using The Holly Terror as the name of the story that became The Chimes of Midnight.

 

[G2309]

I thought this was a reference to due south.

 

[Rarewolf]

You can't compete with awesomeness. Frobrisher will always be one of the best because of "Holly Terror" It's still one one of the funniest BF audio dramas.

I Googled Wikipedia Frobisher and couldn't track down an audios list for him? I couldn't even Wikipedia Holly Terror?

Can you direct me to an Audioplay listing?

I'd be interested in listening to them, after I get to listen to the Gallifrey stories (Currently listening to a 26 Disk Thomas Covenant book on my commute, almost done with disk 4, when it's done, on to Gallifrey [Shada, Neverland, Zagreus, Gallifrey Adventures]. I listened to Gallifrey Adventures and Shada at work a couple months back, but, lost track at times due to work inerferring with my listening . I'm looking forward to enjoying it on the commute. Neverland and Zagreus will be totally new to me )

Holy Terror is one of the darkest too.

Frobisher is also in (and narrates) The Maltese Penguin.