www.dwasonline.co.uk for membership Series Review years ago this March but and, in what is the EDITORIAL details!) Editor John Davies who shares his first credit to this book, the text manages to by Grant Bull love of the brilliant Red Dwarf. The Black fit this still recent living memory of Who-lore in with past and future adventures without Welcome back one and all, Our cover this time is by the always amazing archive making the reader feel that passing decade Paul Watts. As is the norm with Paul I gave (plus one) too keenly. Firstly I would like to thank all those that him a brief for the commission and he blew downloaded #1 and said lovely things about my mind with the end product. Nothing I saw Launched in March 2016 from Obverse The second major credit to this book is it. The stats look good and a wide audience in my head looked this good. Incredible art. Books, The Black Archive is a series of book- Jon Arnold’s writing style. Although you was reached but I’m hoping this issue will Check out more of Paul’s masterpieces at length looks at single Doctor Who stories are frequently taken away from it through surpass those numbers though, so keep www.paulwatts-illustration.co.uk from 1963 to the present day. the abundant footnote notifications that downloading please... and not just you run throughout this book (but never to Mum! My thanks again to all those involved in this an observation that is unwarranted or issue, it would have been a blank document #1: ROSE unnecessary), his delivery is crisp, economical This issue we have a nice selection of without you, so thanks for your willingness by Jon Arnold and, therefore, just as inclusive as the RTD reviews, fiction and art, along with a couple to be a part of this project. Submissions for vision of the show he is chronicling the of interviews with people behind Who further issues, feedback or virtual take-away birth of within its pages. Besides, these related projects. We also introduce a new menus can be sent to [email protected] Review by John Davies books are analytical essay of the story they feature called ‘Other than Who’ the idea It’s a well-known fact that Doctor Who began are representing, and anyone who has ever being someone is invited to discuss one of Until next time, on 23rd November 1963. It is, however, fair written such a critique knows how crucial, their other favourite shows after Doctor to state that it also started again when it expected and insightful those side-stepping Who. The first piece is by the ever-reliable G morphed into comic strips, novels, audio flips down the page can be. Celestial Toyroom (little plug there, check out dramas, when 1996 arrived (for one night only) and, of course, March 26th 2005 – I have seen Rose more times than is possibly the date it genuinely did begin for a whole healthy, to the extent that I always order generation of viewers. It is, therefore, rather a p-p-p-pizza rather than pizza when out apt that Obverse books begin their Black with friends, but I’d be hard pushed to find Archive range of with an examination of that anything about the episode that Jon hasn’t second television coming, Rose. covered here. There is also a wonderful feel of modern day hindsight being used to add extra This series of books, chronicling one Doctor depth to some of the themes that started in Cosmic Masque Issue 2 Who story per edition, has a fluid approach to Rose and played throughout the whole of April 2016 how it tackles its subject matters, and allows Series One. While some might consider it Published by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society for its writers to employ a variety of styles to forcing the point, I did find myself nodding Front cover by Paul Watts provide a unique feel to each fresh edition. In as I read that perhaps, Layout by Nicholas Hollands the case of Jon Arnold’s Rose, it sets out to be just perhaps, the All content is © as near an exhaustive look at the adventure Doctor’s reluctance relevant contributor/DWAS as possible, while simultaneously weaving it to use the delta Doctor Who is (C) BBC into the fabric of the series of the time, and wave in The Parting No copyright infringement is intended the time of the series (a neat trick as he’s also of the Ways CONTACT US looking back at it from now as well). was a lingering DWAS, repercussion Unit 117, Penned, or rather keyboard tapped, by the from the time 33 Queen Street, aforementioned Jon Arnold (co-editor of he remembers Horsham, Shooty Dog Thing: 2th and Claw, as well as that he, as the RH13 5AA contributor to various other projects), Rose War Doctor, FIND US ONLINE opens where Doctor Who opened for a ended the www.dwasonline.co.uk plethora of people: Miss Tyler’s ordinary life Time War facebook.com/dwasonline and routine being derailed by something, in, and twitter.com/dwas63 someone, incredibly extraordinary. What with, the youtube.com/dwasonline is even more incredible is that our gate- Moment. crashing into Rose’s existence occurred 11 - 2 - - 3 - This speculation, and there’s more of it, is is, and she is (she’s almost the template for Smith’s clear writing style and experience in considering at the heart of what makes Rose such an Rose in the way we started to see her life tackling complicated material is very helpful both accounts engaging read. It’s not an antiseptic, medical beyond simply being ‘a companion’) it’s not in terms of understanding the historical in line look at the story (which it could so easily as all-encompassing to a family audience, background of sixteenth-century France and with actual have been); it’s a run through the tale with which was the new demographic when how it is fictionalised into the events of the contemporary a fellow fan pointing at things and asking, Doctor Who came back in 2005, as a bored story. Despite this, it is still somewhat heavy accounts of the “What if…?” and “This also features in…” shop working living in a ‘that’ll do’ life. going, necessitating a can’t-tell-the-players- Massacre of St Going back to Jon Arnold’s style, this is done without-a-scorecard tour of the Reformation Bartholomew, in a way that makes the run feel as inclusive And this book is Rose, literally. It is totally in France. It is certainly worth persevering Smith concludes as the key moment in Rose when she and inclusive, often immersive, and thoroughly with the historical material, though, in order that, in this the Doctor sprint across Westminster Bridge, insightful, detailed and the prefect reference to understand how it influences the story. case, both men’s his umpteenth double take at the London point for anyone who wishes to write about interpretations are Eye fantastically behind him. The Doctor Rose in those years ahead. As people who are already fans of Smith’s valid, even if they and Rose are united in their quest, and this essays and info texts will know, Smith makes are totally at odds author is openly inviting you to join him in a something of a stock-in-trade of reassessing with each other. similar way as he sprints through this most #2: THE MASSACRE classic serials, making him ideal for the Black Smith alludes to the significant of adventures. by James Cooray Smith Archive. In this case, he takes aim at some troubles and tensions common ideas surrounding “The Massacre”, going on behind the Rose, the character, the episode, this book, for instance that the event is sufficiently scenes of Doctor Who is an audience’s way to enter the series, that Review by Fiona Moore “obscure” that a literate 1960s audience under John Wiles’ tenure, particularly as familiar ‘known’ accepting the ‘unknown’ James Cooray Smith’s monograph on the would not have known what was about regards the clashes between the series’ so we do, too. Rose, the episode, also 1966 story “The Massacre”, by John Lucarotti to happen to the characters, or that the production team and William Hartnell, encapsulates one of RTD’s raison d’être’s in (with rewriting by Donald Tosh, of which “straight historicals” can be taken as serious without developing these extensively and writing: the focus on, and elevation of, the more later) is a detailed analysis of issues stories rather than fantasies, pointing out explicitly, but the intended audience of the ordinary individual into the obtainment of surrounding the narrative, its writing and that many of them were tacitly based on book will undoubtedly be familiar with the greatness, on whatever level (often before it production, by an author who has clearly then-recent films or other popular fictional background. Smith also considers, in this is taken away). And that human doorway was done extensive research into all areas works, with even “The Romans” taking context, Lucarotti’s novelisation of his story there in 1963, too. If it wasn’t for the very surrounding the programme. inspiration from A Funny Thing Happened in the 1980s, in which Lucarotti takes a quite human Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, On The Way To The Forum (although “The different approach to the 1960s serial. there wouldn’t have been the Rose by The Black Archive is a series of short volumes Aztecs” is harder to explain).