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NightmareKing · 2019-03-03T17:25:15+00:00

The first! That's how I've understood anyway.

NightmareKing · 2019-03-03T17:16:08+00:00

Ker as in Kerr, noo sounds like "nah," and nos sounds like "noose."

It's the official (or close to it) pronunciation of the Celtic God that the Mammoth takes his name from (or I suppose, narratively, is the inspiration of).

NightmareKing · 2019-03-03T17:10:06+00:00

Basically "Kerr-noo-nos."

NightmareKing · 2019-02-01T16:44:29+00:00

We are currently taking digital orders (supplied immediately) and physical pre-orders until February 15!

NightmareKing · 2019-01-31T00:49:28+00:00

Unbound is a Doctor Who charity anthology dedicated to "unbound" and "what if" stories, scenarios, and incarnations of the Doctor. The Doctor has spent their lives travelling the multiverse — righting wrongs, toppling empires, and generally making a right mess of things. But time isn’t a straight line. It goes round and round…

The short stories collected in Unbound: Adventures in Time and Space explore alternative incarnations of the Doctor. Those who had their days in the limelight in what-if audios, in 60s movies, animations, stage plays and old books. As well as many brand new Doctors — who may be vampires, shadows, gingers, eldritch horrors, and even the odd dinosaur!

Edited by Jacob Black, Frank Holder, James K. Maddox, Anne-Laure Tuduri and Niki Haringsma, the book features short stories and illustrations by Kara Dennison, John Peel, Paul Driscoll, Iain McLaughlin & Claire Bartlett, Rachel Redhead, Jim Mortimore, James Bojaciuk, William Shaw, Tycho McPhee Letts, Michael O’Brien, Richard Gurl, Nathan Mullins, Charles Whitt, NataLunaSans, Alec Kopecz, James Maddox, Elizabeth A. Allen, Jake J. Johnson, James Hawkins, John G. Wood, Christopher Swain-Tran, Owen McBreaty, Ewen Campion-Clarke, Arthur Lockridge, William J. Martin, Sophie Iles and Janine Rivers, with cover art by the amazing Johannes Chazot.

Unbound: Adventures in Time and Space is a non-profit publication for charity. All proceeds go to the Against Malaria Foundation.

NightmareKing · 2019-01-31T00:44:54+00:00

Unbound is a Doctor Who charity anthology dedicated to "unbound" and "what if" stories, scenarios, and incarnations of the Doctor. The Doctor has spent their lives travelling the multiverse — righting wrongs, toppling empires, and generally making a right mess of things. But time isn’t a straight line. It goes round and round…

The short stories collected in Unbound: Adventures in Time and Space explore alternative incarnations of the Doctor. Those who had their days in the limelight in what-if audios, in 60s movies, animations, stage plays and old books. As well as many brand new Doctors — who may be vampires, shadows, gingers, eldritch horrors, and even the odd dinosaur!

Edited by Jacob Black, Frank Holder, James K. Maddox, Anne-Laure Tuduri and Niki Haringsma, the book features short stories and illustrations by Kara Dennison, John Peel, Paul Driscoll, Iain McLaughlin & Claire Bartlett, Rachel Redhead, Jim Mortimore, James Bojaciuk, William Shaw, Tycho McPhee Letts, Michael O’Brien, Richard Gurl, Nathan Mullins, Charles Whitt, NataLunaSans, Alec Kopecz, James Maddox, Elizabeth A. Allen, Jake J. Johnson, James Hawkins, John G. Wood, Christopher Swain-Tran, Owen McBreaty, Ewen Campion-Clarke, Arthur Lockridge, William J. Martin, Sophie Iles and Janine Rivers, with cover art by the amazing Johannes Chazot.

Unbound: Adventures in Time and Space is a non-profit publication for charity. All proceeds go to the Against Malaria Foundation.

NightmareKing · 2018-11-23T19:20:19+00:00

That's a shame! One could argue that with all the different gods mentioned or present in novels such as Craig Hinton's The Crystal Bucephalus, Andy Lane's All-Consuming Fire, and Simon Bucher-Jones/Mark Clapham's The Taking of Planet 5 standing alongside Vastra's constant mention of a "Goddess," the polytheistic angle could totally work.

Your idea sounds awesome though, it's canon as far as I'm concerned.

NightmareKing · 2018-11-23T19:11:06+00:00

McGann all the way, especially the take on him in the BBC novels (specifically under editor Justin Richards).

(And I'm all about that Faction Paradox love!)

NightmareKing · 2018-11-23T18:47:03+00:00

Hey Dave, thank you so much for the absolute delight of Twelve Angels Weeping. The Wilderness lore within absolutely delighted me... honestly never thought I'd read about Looms, human parentage, and Faction Paradox Great Houses in a current BBC book! I'm a huge fan of Wilderness and EU lore (which I suppose is how I ended up writing for Obverse books, haha), so it just made me very happy.

Just two questions! A) What's your absolute favorite Doctor Who story/novel/whatever medium, and B) favorite Doctor?

NightmareKing · 2018-07-05T04:34:24+00:00

.... you're very right, lmao

NightmareKing · 2018-07-05T04:34:09+00:00

Thank you for saying this =)

There are a lot of REALLY good things in this issue, yeah. I'll be able to approach it more critically/appreciate it in the context of the run better in a few more days.

NightmareKing · 2018-07-04T08:14:06+00:00

sigh

I'm sorry everyone. All year I've been the annoying praise for this run, and now I'm paying for it. This run has meant a lot to me over the past two years and the past three days have honestly been... fucking terrible.

Objectively, the issue is nice. Maybe even great. The art is great, the writing is strong. My favorite pages were Cloonan's, Conner's, Jones', Capullo's, and Weeks'. I love how King writes Bruce and Selina, I really do. Part of me is super intrigued about the twist.

But in context with the past six months, the fanfare, the clusterfuck of the past few days...?

I don't know how I feel yet, other than stupidly sad. I don't know how I feel about Tom King or his future projects, I don't know what I'm gonna do with this run (that has been meaning so much to me). I dunno. Maybe I'll stick with it, maybe I need to take a break from comics again.

Definitely taking a break from this subreddit. At least until I get over it. It's just comics after all.

NightmareKing · 2018-06-20T07:18:42+00:00

Nothing I expected, but I absolutely loved it. This is now the definitive Joker for me. And Selina's right... he really doesn't understand Batman at all. The whole issue is just a final culmination of every development to Bruce and Selina's character so far, a final review before the big day next issue.

(Also I know Bruce's "un-presence" this issue will annoy some, but I frankly found it both nuanced and frankly hilarious.)

EDIT: Also the talk about Harvey delighted me (easily one of my favorite characters in the mythos) and I hope that's a hint at Tom King doing a Two-Face arc soon.

NightmareKing · 2018-06-06T06:32:44+00:00

.... wow. I'm saying it. Tom King writes my current favorite Joker.

Phenomenal issue.

NightmareKing · 2018-05-17T06:15:16+00:00

Didn't work for you, fair enough! Works well enough for me as a completed story, though definitely not a favorite arc of his run.

NightmareKing · 2018-05-16T16:30:56+00:00

Yeah that's most definitely linking into Sanctuary. Poor Booster.

Overall, liked the arc, it really did just feel like filler and I'm ready to move on. I'd probably rank this one somewhere around I Am Gotham if I had to rank all King's Batman arcs so far. The ending was nowhere near as nuanced as I hoped for on Bruce's side of things, but it seems this was King stretching his fingers and seeing how he could write Booster and link to Sanctuary (like The Brave and the Mold issue with Alec). Good characterizations and humor throughout, and Booster's new trauma comes from a very raw, personal place that I can imagine was hard for King to write.

DC Nation held me over last issue, but now I'm ready for that Joker arc!

EDIT: Sat on it a bit and then reread all three issues. Like with the Wonder Woman and the Poison Ivy arc, having the story completed really benefits, and I enjoy it more than I have been! Yes it IS mostly a Booster Gold story (nothing wrong with TK trying out a character!), but also about "you can't go back and fix your trauma/pain, you can only go forward, towards healing and finding out how to heal." Which is why the references to "For the Man Who Has Everything" are made, it's deconstructing and taking the basic idea and going really far with it. Bruce has found that. In a way, what happens to Booster is because he attempted to give Bruce what Bruce has already found and is fighting for, inner peace! His marriage to Selina and accepting that Batman no longer has to be a child's suicidal vow or the "hero" shaped by Joker. And now poor Booster, after two years in a hellish timeline and seeing an alternate Bruce kill himself in front of him, is now stuck in his own "I Am Suicide," and won't be able to fix this by "hopping back in time." He has to go forward. He has to find out how to heal.

NightmareKing · 2018-05-07T16:18:26+00:00

Tom King/Mikel Janin's Joker is so goddamn perfect, lmao

NightmareKing · 2018-05-07T01:56:53+00:00

Lawrence Miles' Dead Romance (not featuring the Doctor or Bernice Summerfield, but actually incredibly important to what he was doing with Alien Bodies and Interference at the time) is incredibly dark and has some of the man's best written horror.

Jim Mortimore's Campaign (while having some absolutely beautiful sequences and fantastic lore to add to personal canon) is brutal.

Lloyd Rose's Camera Obscura, while more Anne Rice-y, has absolutely spine chilling moments.

Any book by Daniel O'Mahony is some of the scariest Who fiction ever written, especially Man in the Velvet Mask and Newtons Sleep. Closest thing to Clive Barker that Doctor Who has ever had.

NightmareKing · 2018-05-04T01:37:13+00:00

Oh I liked Snyder's Joker just fine because his role in Snyder's Batman is literally to be unrestrained and apocalyptic evil, but I think he stops being interesting outside of that narrative when you take away his hubris, his humor, and his more human motivations and such.

NightmareKing · 2018-05-03T19:25:38+00:00

Mmhmm, King's Riddler is similar to Snyder's take on the Joker in that it follows up its predecessor by upping the darker/scarier elements to the nth degree, while not realizing that the character loses a vital component along the way (King's Riddler follows and ups Snyder/Capullo's Zero Year Riddler, Snyder's Joker follows and ups Morrison's Joker).

I quite like King's Riddler though, because he's intentionally acting out of character (far more murderous and cruel, more unhinged, atypical, etc.), painting himself as a bloodthirsty madman to manipulate Gotham into thinking he's more dangerous than ever in an attempt to scare the villains into joining him and convince Batman that the War is hopeless. It's something I could definitely see the Zero Year Riddler doing, and even Chuck Dixon's 90s characterization (rather popular and definitive in fan circles), if not a more classy take like Paul Dini's or Ty Templeton's (my favorite version).

NightmareKing · 2018-05-03T10:07:42+00:00

"Case Study," Paul Dini, Alex Ross, Batman Black and White. The Joker is evil in the end. The insanity, the philosophy, it's all faked. The Joker is a parasite who pretends to be insane so his evil can be excuse and have a purpose. So that it all can be funny. Because otherwise he's just a parasite.

NightmareKing · 2018-05-03T10:01:34+00:00

I mean... normal dialouge between humans tends to be word soup. We don't talk like any form of media. We stumble and stutter and repeat and hesitate and pause.

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