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The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix i Assemblly Alliiens

Here’s the complete list in order of appearance. These are not meant to be actual characters from the show, but representatives of aliens who have appeared.

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The Ambassador (”” -3rd Doctor)

An Steward and the Ice Warrior Ambassador (”” and others -2nd & 3rd Doctors)

The Alpha Centaurian Ambassador (”” and “The Curse of Peladon” -3rd Doctor)

The Foamasi Ambassador (”The Leisure Hive” -4th Doctor)

The Thoros Beta (Mentor) Ambassador (”Vengance on Varos” and “Mindwarp” -6th Doctor)

The Terileptil Ambassador (”The Visitation” -5th Doctor)

The Representative (”Terror of the ” -4th Doctor)

A bird-person -species as yet unnamed- (”The End of the World” -9th Doctor)

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The Balhoon Ambassador (”The End of the World” -9th Doctor)

A little blue person (-One of ’s Incarnations in “Destiny of the ” -4th Doctor and “The End of the World” -9th Doctor)

The Mogarian Ambassador (”Terror of the Vervoids” -6th Doctor)

The Arcturian Ambassador (”The Monster of Peladon” -3rd Doctor)

A (”” and many others -3rd, 4th & 6th Doctors) The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix i i The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix i i i

Apriill Foolls Day, 2007 (pt. 1)

Rich's Notes: There were a couple of occasions where I actually considered doing this. Never for very long, mind you, but "The 10 Doctors" is a supremely complicated story. I lost my way a couple of times and wrote myself into the odd corner. So this seemed like a believable and somewhat nasty joke to play on the readers who had already joked about this sort of thing happening. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix i v

Apriill Foolls Day, 2007 (pt. 2)

Rich's Notes: Believe it or not, some people didn't get it. I figured I'd better clarify that it was just a joke on April 2nd so that people would keep reading. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix i i i Apriill Foolls Day, 2008

Rich's Notes: What I'd originally wanted to do was give "The 10 Doctors" a stupid ending. Not a frustrated scribble like in 2007, but a cop-out ending where something unbelievably stupid happens. Like all the people of shout out "DOCTOR!" in unison and break 's hold on him through the power of loyalty and love... but nobody would have believed that crock for a second.

Another idea I had was to have it all be a dream, with the 10th Doctor waking up in bed before any of this comic happened. Or better yet, the 7th Doctor wakes up and none of the new series ever happened. I took it a bit further and thought that the 1st Doctor should wake up from the dream and none of the series ever happened. Then I did this. Where the entire series was just a pitch draft script and the series was never produced!

The 10th Doctor dream sequence would have been funnier. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix i v YAFGC''s Apriill Foolls Day, 2008

Rich's Notes: In my other comic, I did a crossover. Problem is that for YAFGC readers who don't read "The 10 Doctors", it makes no sense whether they know the series or not. Only those following both knew it was sort of cleverish. More so when the 9th Doctor appears in the comic a few days later and says the same lines but in the context of the story.

Unfortunately it opened a whole bunch of questions as to what Arachne saw. Did she skip ahead to see the end of "The 10 Doctors"? Or did she look into her own future? The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix v Swiitchiing Web Hosts, 2008

Rich's Notes: We decided that most of the readers would get confused if the host just suddenly changed on them. The format and all the links would suddenly stop working and a lot of them probably wouldn't read the News Item on the site. So it was decided that there should be some kind of Comix Blog announcement IN COMIC FORM! So here I've had characters from all the Comix Blog strips (The 1st Doctor from "The 10 Doctors", Eric from "24fps", Paulus from "House of Paulus" and Cuddles the Cloaker from "Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic") show up in the TARDIS which is on its way to a new host. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix vi

Chriistmas Speciiall, 2007

Rich's Notes: During the 1965 episode "The Masterplan", one episode was done as a Christmas Special. Against direction, at the last minute, William Hartnell (the 1st Doctor) turned to the camera to wish the viewers at home a very happy Christmas. Well, I felt I'd do a little tribute to that, and a sort of Christmas card for the readers. My original idea was a little more elaborate than this but I canned it when I started to run out of time and it got too long. You can read about that in the Deleted Sequences entries. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix vi i Chriistmas Speciiall, 2008

Rich's Notes:

I had time and forethought enough to do something a little more elaborate for the following Christmas Special. Also got to use some of the jokes I didn't get to use the previous year. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix vi i 8 -> 9 Regeneratiion Suggestiions

Rich's Notes: A reader informed me in no uncertain terms that I should not...nay, MUST not portray the 8th to 9th Doctor regeneration in my comic.

Unfortunately, I had already planned not to. But my instinctive reaction was to rewrite my story to include it. Instead of that, however, I did this page where I got to do the regeneration not once, but 4 times. So there.

The with the cartoon bomb seemed to be the most popular. The last one, in which the 8th Doctor gets a papercut on his tongue, was widely assumed to be a reference to a Seinfeld episode dealing with poisonous envelope glue. I never watched much Seinfeld, so I had no idea what they were talking about. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix i x Delleted Sequence, Chriistmas 2007

Rich's Notes: Here are some samples of pages I drew for the comic that I rejected. Generally they were either taking the story in a direction I decided not to go, or I simply didn't like the art and direction.

(Commentary for this strip appears on the following page) The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix x

The earliest piece is a rejected Christmas special I was doing for Dec. 24, 2007. In it we would have seen the 1st Doctor find the supposedly destroyed "Time Scoop" from "" and gather up all his incarnations and companions past and future (up to the currentness of the series at the time) and have a little Christmas party on . I had a bunch of jokes in mind but as I went through the strip I realized that it was going to be huge and unweildy and I didn't have time or inclination to finish. I did the one-panel joke that actually appeared instead.

A few of my gags appeared in that panel and include: The 1st Doctor wishing the audience at home a Merry Christmas (as in "The Feast of Stephen"), the 4 's singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" (as in an outtake video that's viewable online) the 4th Doctor making out with Romana (as per the same video. I used that gag in the 2008 Christmas strip), the 4th Doctor offering the Master a Humbug, to which he replies, "BAH!", The 2nd and 7th Doctors playing carols on recorder and spoons, Jamie catching Peri under the mistletoe (referencing "") and Peri and Mel decorating the 6th Doctor like a Christmas tree (which I used in 2008).

Delleted Sequence, Page 121

Rich's Notes:

Just the first panel, this is an awkwardly staged view of the 5th Doctor's fighter being pursued by Nyssa's shuttle as it plummets past the Dalek's flagship in Earth's orbit. I decided later to get Nyssa's shuttle out of the scene so that the 5th Doctor could rescue the 4th without her assistance. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xi i Delleted Sequence, Page 135

Rich's Notes: Leela kills the , stabbing him through a few regenerations until he dissolves into formless goo. After I'd drawn the page I realized that it was pretty shocking, really. Although I still find it an interesting study of what WOULD happen if someone kept murdering you through the process, the body structure breaks down as the lindos is unable to keep up with demand, as it were. I also felt it made Leela a bit too monsterous. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xi i Delleted Sequence, Page 191

Rich's Notes: This original 'rescue of the Doctors' scene was flashy and fun, but caused a few problems. 1: Captain Jack was there. He should have had a chance to be more active than just stand around while Maxil got all the glory. 2: The sudden turnaround of loyalties of Maxil was unclear. He seems to blindly obey the 6th Doctor's command to kill the Dalek rather than actually come to the decision on his own. 3: It got rid of the danger of Dalek Ahn far too quickly. I needed him to stick around a little longer and my final solution allowed me the possibility of bringing him back in a future project. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xi v Delleted Sequence, Page 194

Rich's Notes: The merging of the Doctors took place earlier in the story in this particular version, just after the 4th Doctor fell to the ground after getting caught up in the time-ray with Leela and the Time Daleks. He didn't get a chance to join the others for the big merge and so he just kind of picks up on the mental activity unconsciously. In a way it reflects "The Five Doctors" with the 4th Doctor being absent but somehow also present. But it bugged me that they'd never actually all be in the same room. I therefore fiddled with the timing of events so that the 4th Doctor could walk in and be part of the whole thing. Wound up being on page 200, the first time all 10 Doctors were in the same room and the same panel.

You'll also notice that instead of meeting the Dalek conditioning, the Quantum Doctor actually meets the Black and White Guardians in the void of his own mind. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xv Delleted Sequence, Page 195

Rich's Notes: The Quantum Doctor confronts the Black and White Guardians in his own mind. (Instead of the Dalek conditioning). I drew it this way because I liked the idea of them all confronting the Guardians together and the imagery of them being in a white null universe. However, I realized that I'd written myself into a corner because if this is in 's MIND, then the 9th Doctor couldn't find him and rescue him, in fact, he was already THERE. The Reapers couldn't show up and eat the Guardians since they weren't in an actual place. So I came up with the Dalek conditioning battle instead which allowed me to set this scene on Gallifrey later on. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xvi Delleted Sequence, Page 203

Rich's Notes: This sequence happened in a different order then it appeared in the final version of the comic. Here we see the 2.5th Doctor comforting the waiting companions while the Brigadier discusses the cleanup of Gallifrey with Maxil. I actually had a few takes on these scenes but this is the only rejected one I found. I believe a couple of the others got angrily crumpled and thrown into the recycling bin. I didn't like the art on the Brig or Maxil and the whole sequence is awkward with them having to discuss all kinds of offscreen happenings. I also figured a way to get poor neglected Captain Jack back into the limelight later on. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xvi Delleted Sequence, Page 212

Rich's Notes: All that really changed from these first 2 panels of Page 212 was the staging. I condensed the dialogue and put it into one panel so that I could end the page with an ominous blank panel. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xvi Delleted Sequence, Page 226... mark 1

Rich's Notes: This sequence gave me a headache. This is the first of three of my attempts at the Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey scene. The one that explains why this story could happen in the context of the series. Here we see a longer Liz Shaw sequence that takes place right after the montage of the characters enjoying themselves on the Eye of Orion. I realized that I hadn't given any of the other UNIT characters any "screentime", so that's why I rejected this page. Also I didn't like the art. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xi x Delleted Sequence, Page 226... mark 2

Rich's Notes:

This attempt showed more of Benton (and again, I hate the artwork) and the 1st Doctor gets a chance to do the explaining. Unfortunately I found his longwinded actually comprehensive speech to be somewhat out of character. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xx Delleted Sequence, Page 227 (mark 3)

Rich's Notes:

After I got a 226 I didn't totally hate, the one that now appears in the comic, which ends with Liz asking "The Big Question", this was my first (again, of several) attempts to get the explanation out in an amusing way. I got bogged down and started over. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xxi Delleted Sequence, Page 240

Rich's Notes: The first 5 panels of this appear in the comic, but the rest of it bothered me. I felt that shouldn't have just given up and gone away, but instead returned one last time to try to force the 10th Doctor into giving his 8th self the data spool. However, by this point, the story was winding down and it would have been tiresome to bring him back YET AGAIN for another little unecessary action sequence. The story was already huge and unwieldy and it was time to really let it start to end. So instead, the Monk mysteriously disappeared after the last interaction, leaving some questions about his knowledge of the future unanswered. Perhaps, like Dalek Ahn, to make a comeback in a future project. It also made the 8th Doctor a bit too aggressive towards himself about the secret and THIS version of the 8th Doctor wouldn't have just shrugged and handed it back. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xxi

p. 240 commentary, cont.

Instead of trimming the rejected second half of the page out, I ditched the following page (241) and taped a rewritten sequence over the bottom half of this page. What I didn't anticipate was the readers not only being able to see the rejected panels through the new section, but actually putting it into photoshop and trying to clarify the rejected sequence so they could see where the story didn't go!

Delleted Sequence, Page 241

Rich's Notes:

Follows on from the rejected page 240. The Monk attempts to force the 10th Doctor into giving the 8th Doctor the data spool that will prevent the Last Great . The 10th Doctor delivers an impassioned speech about how time should be allowed to follow its proper course and somesuch. Truth be told, I didn't believe the Doctor either. His arguments were weak and the Monk seemed to be more in the right. I also wasn't sure what to do with the Monk once the other Doctors had subdued him. Should one of them take him back to Gallifrey, ultimately, to die? Should they just let him go? Too many tangental problems to deal with led me to just cutting the whole subplot out of the story. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xxi

Da Ten Docs - Part 1

A response to all those who felt that my looked a bit like Daffy Duck. Here’s how the scene would have played out if it was! The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xxi

Da Ten Docs - Part 1 The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xxv

Da Ten Docs - Part 2

A sequel, because I had fun with the first one. In this scene, the Master is played by Wile E. Coyote. My favorite of the WB characters. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Appendix xxv