“New” and “different” are loaded terms in the 2020s.
Police Comics #10
Comic Magazines, Inc (July, 1942)
Apparently we went bimonthly and nobody told me.
Not sure how to open this one for awhile. This series at this point in the pre-DC (now) Wednesday reviews only gets interrupted on occasion by Doll Man’s Quarterly comic because Uncle Sam’s comic just kept leaving me confused. I still want to try to enjoy these comics, which is how the daily comic review started: reading comics to see if I want to continue reading those series. The comics in this book have been doing good so far. Let’s see if the pattern continues.
I’m not necessarily celebrating the end of Doctor Who. It was once one of my favorite fictions due to how vast the Whoniverse, is with a diverse group of races both friendly and enemy. Also the potential of other Time Lords having their own adventured, along the same lines as other starships or starbases in Star Trek’s Federation to play with (both of which fan productions and official material have done well and ill with). The only other franchise in my favorites that matches it is Transformers, even if you stick to the “G1” 1980s continuity with or without the Japanese animes. Throw in the multiverse and you have yourself near unlimited potential for expansion. Star Wars has tried but it always comes back to original trilogy cast in some form.
What I am happy about is that time will be taken for Doctor Who to find itself…and without Russell T. Davies. While I wasn’t the biggest fan of his first run and had my concerns going into his second, he at least displayed an attempt to want to make good adventures with the Doctor and a love for the show in that first run. I just disagreed with some of his ideas, but still overall enjoyed it, even if Steven Moffatt hit more of my happiness buttons than missed. So the only person who’s probably happier to see Davies and Bad Wolf Productions leave Doctor Who is Christopher Eccleston.
What does this have to do with Doctor Who news and theory channel WhoCulture of the WhatCulture network?
Back when the cancellation of the show entirely and the Christmas Special specifically were just rumors I put together an article response to main contributor Ellie Littlechild counterpointing her claims that everything was fine and we just had to wait. We had some disagreements. When the news dropped I was able to get on it with my thoughts, but Ellie was on vacation (or “holiday” as they say in the UK) and couldn’t respond herself to the news. Because I used her previous comments on the rumor as a basis for my own thoughts, I thought it fair to go over her updated comments. To her credit she’s not backpedaling or drowning herself in cope, and there were a few things we did agree upon even in the rumor video.
So in fairness and credit where it’s due, and totally not for being a cute redhead with an alluring accent that will benefit readership and totally no other reason because…I think I killed this joke, here is Ellie Littlechild’s post-vacation thoughts on the cancellation of the Christmas special and “tendering” (aka “shopping around for a new production team rather than just going back to BBC Wales) of the series as a whole. Then my thoughts.
Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.
In case you missed the book reveal, we’re back to the prose novel, back to Star Trek, and back to characters we met during The Vulcan Academy Murders, with the same author. This is essentially a sequel to that book, but rather than a police procedural using the original Enterprise crew and exploring relationships between species in the Star Trek universe we’ve got a medical procedural using the original Enterprise crew and exploring relationships between species in the Star Trek universe.
IDIC: Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combination. As the culture war has kind of messed up what “diversity” means, it’s not a surprise that the guy who said his take on Star Trek wasn’t about making Star Trek but using it to send a message brought on people who doesn’t know what the word means in the Star Trek’s context. In the Star Trek universe the race war was ended when World War III and all the genetically augmented supermen happened. Diversity there was diversity of culture, diversity of thought, diversity of beliefs, all combining to create a shared intergalactic society. There are species who could never understand that, but humanity went through a lot of trouble to learn that, which might be why Earth was the home of the Federation.
This story takes place not on Earth, or Vulcan like Jean Lorrah’s last book, but on a space colony where peace and tolerance for all are the norm, since that’s what they need to survive. Except something is about to challenge that notion, and exploring how that affects everyone will hopefully be good Trek. The Vulcan Academy Murders already showed that she could write good Star Trek and explore cultural differences without hostility towards any one philosophy or group. It’s time to see if she can do it again, which we’ll learn by the end of this book. To get to the end, however, we must start at the beginning. So let’s get started.
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On WhoCulture’s Response To The Current Doctor Who Status
I’m not necessarily celebrating the end of Doctor Who. It was once one of my favorite fictions due to how vast the Whoniverse, is with a diverse group of races both friendly and enemy. Also the potential of other Time Lords having their own adventured, along the same lines as other starships or starbases in Star Trek’s Federation to play with (both of which fan productions and official material have done well and ill with). The only other franchise in my favorites that matches it is Transformers, even if you stick to the “G1” 1980s continuity with or without the Japanese animes. Throw in the multiverse and you have yourself near unlimited potential for expansion. Star Wars has tried but it always comes back to original trilogy cast in some form.
What I am happy about is that time will be taken for Doctor Who to find itself…and without Russell T. Davies. While I wasn’t the biggest fan of his first run and had my concerns going into his second, he at least displayed an attempt to want to make good adventures with the Doctor and a love for the show in that first run. I just disagreed with some of his ideas, but still overall enjoyed it, even if Steven Moffatt hit more of my happiness buttons than missed. So the only person who’s probably happier to see Davies and Bad Wolf Productions leave Doctor Who is Christopher Eccleston.
What does this have to do with Doctor Who news and theory channel WhoCulture of the WhatCulture network?
Back when the cancellation of the show entirely and the Christmas Special specifically were just rumors I put together an article response to main contributor Ellie Littlechild counterpointing her claims that everything was fine and we just had to wait. We had some disagreements. When the news dropped I was able to get on it with my thoughts, but Ellie was on vacation (or “holiday” as they say in the UK) and couldn’t respond herself to the news. Because I used her previous comments on the rumor as a basis for my own thoughts, I thought it fair to go over her updated comments. To her credit she’s not backpedaling or drowning herself in cope, and there were a few things we did agree upon even in the rumor video.
So in fairness and credit where it’s due, and totally not for being a cute redhead with an alluring accent that will benefit readership and totally no other reason because…I think I killed this joke, here is Ellie Littlechild’s post-vacation thoughts on the cancellation of the Christmas special and “tendering” (aka “shopping around for a new production team rather than just going back to BBC Wales) of the series as a whole. Then my thoughts.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 16, 2026 in Television Spotlight and tagged Bad Wolf Productions, BBC, commentary, Doctor Who, Russell T. Davies, WhoCulture.
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