The writers behind the forthcoming Eleventh Doctor series from Titan Comics have spoken out on the upcoming series in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Speaking with Graeme McMillian, the team of Rob Williams, Al Ewing and Simon Fraser, all 2000AD veterans, were keen to emphasise the importance of the show in both British culture and to them personally as Al Ewing comments:
“It’s a little strange to be working on figures that are so important in the U.K. pop-culture landscape — they’re both important to me, too. I feel like I’ve kind of lived the dream now, I can cross those off the bucket list. It’s not one show — it’s ten different shows and a movie and what that means for you is affected by how old you were for each Doctor, each massively different TV show with the same name, and where it stood in the culture at the time… Doctor Who is so deeply entrenched in the culture that you can’t actually dig it out or say what it is, because Doctor Who is everything.”
Ewing possibly endeared himself to an entire legion of fans by quoting Uncle Terrance, nailing his fanboy colours clearly to the mast:
“[A Doctor Who Comic] should be neither cruel nor cowardly, to quote Terrance Dicks. I think beyond that, you can go in any direction you like.”
Williams agrees:
“We’re very aware of the comics format and are constantly trying to come up with inventive ways to use that. If it’s a Doctor Who comic rather than a TV show or audio adventure or novel then we should make it a vital thing that pushes the medium”
You can read the full interview at The Hollywood Reporter, with hints of what’s to come including “a mysterious, very pivotal figure from the Doctor’s past,” as well as “space battles, blues music, a big alien dog, time doing things it shouldn’t, teaching someone how to live. Oh, and monsters and running away from monsters…”
What more could we ask for!
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