EIGHT WEEKS!

Am I a good man?

This may be a typo.

Or an anomaly.

And in case you were wondering, Titan are doing a current Doctor comic as well. With Robbie Morrison writing, while his Nikolai Dante co-artist Simon Fraser draws for Ten.

The Doctor who Reloaded sketchbook contains much pretty and buying it may help the artist stay in the UK.

It's All To Play For

And today an animated Google Doodle for the World Cup. I won’t pretend interest here.

Of course, as I may have previously suggested, a big sporting event could be the basis for an adventure. The Fourth Doctor nearly had to save us from the Krikkitmen. The Eighth Doctor had to deal with alien team managers (while wearing a fez!) in a Gareth Roberts story in DWM.

And consider having sporty aliens turn up and demand we take part in the Known Worlds Cup. (Like the Space Olympics, it’s more trouble than it sounds.) A twist on the classic represent-your-planet threat. Superman does it, why not the Doctor? He can be a first eleven all by himself.

Doctor Who World Tour

Quite a short one, but it does go right around the world. Sadly, the London stopoff does not line up with WorldCon being there a week and a bit later. Very cool for places like Seoul and Rio though!

Peter Capaldi, one of us (again)

Asked by a charity to share a school report card for a fundraiser, he made one up for the Doctor.

Who gets a D overall.

D-Day...

Today, Google appear to be cheating somewhat, with a charming animated Doodle dedicated to Honinbo Shusaku, a professional Go player from the 19th Century, while the 70th anniversary of D-Day gets a link lower down. Hrm.

The uprising at Tiananmen Square was brought down twenty-five years ago. It still feels too close and too painful to put into escapist fiction like our games. By comparison, the peaceful Velvet Revolution in the then Czechoslovakia has been the backdrop for the recent comic serial The Broken Man. The choice was a good one - the real-life happy ending means it does not seem disrespectful to have aliens mucking about in the background.

If you could see the future...

Would you use that ability to make money?

And would you be careful enough about how you made it?

io9’s description of forthcoming indie film Time Lapse seems a bit too harsh. Only one of these people appears to be a total idiot. The escalation to chaos looks less Fiasco-y than the review suggests.

It’d be interesting to see a real Bill And Ted level of fools in charge of a time machine in the Whoniverse. The Doctor can hardly claim the moral high ground there, can he?

Rachel Louise Carson

One of the founders of the environmental movement, the author of Silent Spring which lad to the banning of DDT, Rachel Louise Carson is marked by Google on her 107th birthday.

“And in no small way, her work helped save millions of birds, giving spring back its song.”

Be brave. help save the world.

Mary Anning

A break from the usual Google Doodle plot hook police, brought about by Mary Anning, our greatest fossil hunter, being a perfect Celebrity Historical for Primeval instead.

The Rubik's Cube is 40

Today’s Google Doodle provides the potentially infuriating timesink of a virtual Rubik’s Cube to mark its invention four decades ago. Since then, it has been a puzzle, a fad, a piece of 80s nostalgia as it grew to fame after about a decade, a visual indicator for “this person is smart”, a prop in Doctor Who and a reference in The God Complex in particular, and, um, a cartoon.

“One night Carlos, Reynaldo and Lisa Rodriguez stumbled on a secret that would change their lives. They rescued a colorful cube and solved his puzzle, setting him free. In this one act the kids had made a friend for life. His name is Rubik.”

Well, as author of a blog for roleplaying about a two-hearted alien who travels through space and time in an old police box I shouldn’t really be surprised.

Titan Comics Doctor Who 10 and 11 motion trailers

No sign that they're doing motion comics, just motion trailers for their comics.

How to choose a Doctor

New Radio Times day! With a BAFTA special and as a result a fairly gratuitous Peter Capaldi Doctor cover and Steven Moffat reflecting on the award-nominated Day Of The Doctor and the requirements of casting the key role, something he has now done three times, albeit once for one night only.