The Glorious Dead
Wednesday, 3 May 2006 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
Posted By Shaun Lyon
The publishers of Doctor Who Magazine will soon release The Glorious Dead, volume two of their collections of Eighth Doctor comic strips as published in the magazine. The press release is below and there's a thumbnail of the cover at right; click on it for a larger version. (Thanks to Clay Hickman/DWM)
Doctor Who: The Glorious Dead
(The Complete Eighth Doctor Comic Strips - Volume 2)
The Eighth Doctor faces new perils in this bumper collection of classic comic adventures!
This volume features eight amazing stories from the pages of DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE: THE FALLEN, UNNATURAL BORN KILLERS, THE ROAD TO HELL, THE COMPANY OF THIEVES, THE GLORIOUS DEAD, THE AUTONOMY BUG, HAPPY DEATHDAY and TV ACTION!
The Doctor and his best friend Izzy are joined in the TARDIS by Kroton, a Cyberman with a heart and soul! The action comes faster than ever as our heroes encounter genocidal Sontarans, vicious space pirates, demented robots, mad gods, deadly samurai warriors... and the actor Tom Baker!
But the ultimate challenge is approaching; an epic, star-spanning battle that will decide the fate of all reality! An old friend is waiting to be reunited with the Doctor, while an even older enemy is lurking in the shadows of time and space...
PLUS two bonus stories from the early days of Doctor Who Weekly, THROWBACK: THE SOUL OF A CYBERMAN and SHIP OF FOOLS, telling the origins of Kroton the Cyberman! AND a special six-page behind-the-scenes feature where writers Scott Gray, Alan Barnes and Adrian Salmon reveal background information on the storiesĀ¹ origins, alongside never-before-seen sketches and character designs from Salmon and fellow artists Martin Geraghty and Roger Langridge!
Released late May/early June 2006, 244 pages, black and white softcover, full colour cover.
The publishers of Doctor Who Magazine will soon release The Glorious Dead, volume two of their collections of Eighth Doctor comic strips as published in the magazine. The press release is below and there's a thumbnail of the cover at right; click on it for a larger version. (Thanks to Clay Hickman/DWM)
Doctor Who: The Glorious Dead
(The Complete Eighth Doctor Comic Strips - Volume 2)
The Eighth Doctor faces new perils in this bumper collection of classic comic adventures!
This volume features eight amazing stories from the pages of DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE: THE FALLEN, UNNATURAL BORN KILLERS, THE ROAD TO HELL, THE COMPANY OF THIEVES, THE GLORIOUS DEAD, THE AUTONOMY BUG, HAPPY DEATHDAY and TV ACTION!
The Doctor and his best friend Izzy are joined in the TARDIS by Kroton, a Cyberman with a heart and soul! The action comes faster than ever as our heroes encounter genocidal Sontarans, vicious space pirates, demented robots, mad gods, deadly samurai warriors... and the actor Tom Baker!
But the ultimate challenge is approaching; an epic, star-spanning battle that will decide the fate of all reality! An old friend is waiting to be reunited with the Doctor, while an even older enemy is lurking in the shadows of time and space...
PLUS two bonus stories from the early days of Doctor Who Weekly, THROWBACK: THE SOUL OF A CYBERMAN and SHIP OF FOOLS, telling the origins of Kroton the Cyberman! AND a special six-page behind-the-scenes feature where writers Scott Gray, Alan Barnes and Adrian Salmon reveal background information on the storiesĀ¹ origins, alongside never-before-seen sketches and character designs from Salmon and fellow artists Martin Geraghty and Roger Langridge!
Released late May/early June 2006, 244 pages, black and white softcover, full colour cover.