www.dwasonline.co.uk for membership EDITORIAL details!) Editor John Davies who shares his by Grant Bull love of the brilliant Red Dwarf. Welcome back one and all, Our cover this time is by the always amazing Paul Watts. As is the norm with Paul I gave 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 it. The stats look good and a wide audience in my head looked this good. Incredible art. was reached but I’m hoping this issue will Check out more of Paul’s masterpieces at surpass those numbers though, so keep www.paulwatts-illustration.co.uk downloading please... and not just you Mum! My thanks again to all those involved in this issue, it would have been a blank document This issue we have a nice selection of without you, so thanks for your willingness reviews, fiction and art, along with a couple to be a part of this project. Submissions for of interviews with people behind Who further issues, feedback or virtual take-away related projects. We also introduce a new menus can be sent to [email protected] feature called ‘Other than Who’ the idea being someone is invited to discuss one of Until next time, their other favourite shows after Doctor Who. The first piece is by the ever-reliable G Celestial Toyroom (little plug there, check out Cosmic Masque Issue 2 April 2016 Published by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society Front cover by Paul Watts Layout by Nicholas Hollands All content is © relevant contributor/DWAS Doctor Who is (C) BBC No copyright infringement is intended CONTACT US DWAS, Unit 117, 33 Queen Street, Horsham, RH13 5AA FIND US ONLINE www.dwasonline.co.uk facebook.com/dwasonline twitter.com/dwas63 youtube.com/dwasonline - 2 - Series Review years ago this March but and, in what is the first credit to this book, the text manages to The Black fit this still recent living memory of Who-lore in with past and future adventures without archive making the reader feel that passing decade (plus one) too keenly. Launched in March 2016 from Obverse The second major credit to this book is Books, The Black Archive is a series of book- Jon Arnold’s writing style. Although you length looks at single Doctor Who stories are frequently taken away from it through from 1963 to the present day. the abundant footnote notifications that run throughout this book (but never to an observation that is unwarranted or #1: ROSE unnecessary), his delivery is crisp, economical by Jon Arnold and, therefore, just as inclusive as the RTD vision of the show he is chronicling the birth of within its pages. Besides, these Review by John Davies books are analytical essay of the story they It’s a well-known fact that Doctor Who began are representing, and anyone who has ever on 23rd November 1963. It is, however, fair written such a critique knows how crucial, to state that it also started again when it expected and insightful those side-stepping morphed into comic strips, novels, audio flips down the page can be. 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 Who story per edition, has a fluid approach to Rose and played throughout the whole of how it tackles its subject matters, and allows Series One. While some might consider it for its writers to employ a variety of styles to forcing the point, I did find myself nodding provide a unique feel to each fresh edition. In as I read that perhaps, the case of Jon Arnold’s Rose, it sets out to be just perhaps, the as near an exhaustive look at the adventure Doctor’s reluctance as possible, while simultaneously weaving it to use the delta into the fabric of the series of the time, and wave in The Parting the time of the series (a neat trick as he’s also of the Ways looking back at it from now as well). was a lingering repercussion Penned, or rather keyboard tapped, by the from the time aforementioned Jon Arnold (co-editor of he remembers Shooty Dog Thing: 2th and Claw, as well as that he, as the contributor to various other projects), Rose War Doctor, opens where Doctor Who opened for a ended the plethora of people: Miss Tyler’s ordinary life Time War and routine being derailed by something, in, and someone, incredibly extraordinary. What with, the is even more incredible is that our gate- Moment. crashing into Rose’s existence occurred 11 - 3 - This speculation, and there’s more of it, is is, and she is (she’s almost the template for at the heart of what makes Rose such an Rose in the way we started to see her life engaging read. It’s not an antiseptic, medical beyond simply being ‘a companion’) it’s not look at the story (which it could so easily as all-encompassing to a family audience, have been); it’s a run through the tale with which was the new demographic when a fellow fan pointing at things and asking, Doctor Who came back in 2005, as a bored “What if…?” and “This also features in…” shop working living in a ‘that’ll do’ life. Going back to Jon Arnold’s style, this is done in a way that makes the run feel as inclusive And this book is Rose, literally. It is totally as the key moment in Rose when she and inclusive, often immersive, and thoroughly the Doctor sprint across Westminster Bridge, insightful, detailed and the prefect reference his umpteenth double take at the London point for anyone who wishes to write about Eye fantastically behind him. The Doctor Rose in those years ahead. and Rose are united in their quest, and this author is openly inviting you to join him in a similar way as he sprints through this most #2: THE MASSACRE significant of adventures. by James Cooray Smith Rose, the character, the episode, this book, is an audience’s way to enter the series, that Review by Fiona Moore familiar ‘known’ accepting the ‘unknown’ James Cooray Smith’s monograph on the so we do, too. Rose, the episode, also 1966 story “The Massacre”, by John Lucarotti encapsulates one of RTD’s raison d’être’s in (with rewriting by Donald Tosh, of which writing: the focus on, and elevation of, the more later) is a detailed analysis of issues ordinary individual into the obtainment of surrounding the narrative, its writing and greatness, on whatever level (often before it production, by an author who has clearly is taken away). And that human doorway was done extensive research into all areas there in 1963, too. If it wasn’t for the very surrounding the programme. human Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, there wouldn’t have been the Rose by The Black Archive is a series of short volumes any other name we know from the Powell (published by Obverse Books), whose aim Estate. Within this book, though, there is is to produce detailed monographs of 20- an assertion that this audience link was 40,000 words, each of which analyses somehow lost as the TARDIS was populated a single Doctor Who story. As such, it’s with a rotation of alien companions, or those aimed at fans and researchers seeking not from Earth, as the show ran on past the more historical and analytical detail than early 70s. As Tegan and Peri are from Earth, is usually provided in general-audience just not the UK, perhaps that observation guidebooks. The structure of this volume should have said, ‘not from Britain’? And consists of a main essay covering the story then there’s Mel and Ace. It’s possibly just in general, followed by detailed discussions loose wordage in an otherwise spot on of each episode, concluded by appendices observation because, as the original run of on relevant subjects. In the interests of full Doctor Who lived through the late 70s and disclosure, I will state that my name appears 80s, the companions were frequently alien, the acknowledgements, as I provided some from outside the UK, to go back to Mel and factual information about French language Ace, a computer programmers that possibly and French customs. However, I did not couldn’t work out, “10 print Mel, 20 goto advise on content otherwise, and this is the 10. Run” and a teenage tearaway that blew first time I have seen the manuscript in full. up prize winning pig pottery collections, probably the day after burning down an old The text is well written, full of the dry wit house, cursing her mother as it fell. Not really which fans of Smith’s info texts on the Doctor inclusive personas.