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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. Page 22: The Draconian Ambassador (”Frontier in Space” -3rd Doctor) An Ice Warrior Steward and the Ice Warrior Ambassador (”The Ice Warriors” and others -2nd & 3rd Doctors) The Alpha Centaurian Ambassador (”The Monster of Peladon” 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 Zygon Representative (”Terror of the Zygons” -4th Doctor) A bird-person -species as yet unnamed- (”The End of the World” -9th Doctor) Page 23 The Balhoon Ambassador (”The End of the World” -9th Doctor) A little blue person (-One of Romana’s Incarnations in “Destiny of the Daleks” -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 Sontaran (”The Time Warrior” 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 Earth shout out "DOCTOR!" in unison and break the Master'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 Dalek 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 cyberman 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 "The Five Doctors" 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 Gallifrey. 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 K9'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 "The Two Doctors") 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 Valeyard, 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.