why did they do it? Anyway, more on that when I get to Benny Summerfield's debut in Emperor of the Daleks. My impression is that this was a decision ultimately regretted by his successors at DWM, and part of the reason this entire era of DWM ultimately ended up kind of orphaned, but. On Down the Tubes, he off-handedly mentions that Ravens 'was the first story where we tried to work with Doctor Who novel publisher Virgin, after meeting with the editor Peter Darvill-Evans and trying to cross promote what were then the only new Doctor Who adventures,' but that's it.

John Freeman's notes, though, mostly focus on the issues surrounding Evening's Empire, and don't give any sense of why he might want to hitch DWM's narrative to a series of novels that were only just getting off the ground. For the DWM strip-which for a long time barely even seemed to acknowledge that there was a tv programme-this is a huge change, and a weird one that I wish was explained more. In The Grief, Ace includes the Timewyrm among the most dangerous foes she's encountered the internet tells me that Ravens take's place during Cat's Cradle: Warhead and then in Cat Litter, we start getting footnotes that clarify placement (it opens with one saying recent adventures were seen ' both last issue and in Nightshade' and ends with ' Next: After Love and War, a new companion and. This set of stories take us into, ahem, 'Virgin territory.' I suspect I'll have more to say about this when I read the next volume, but here we get the first references to the New Adventures. Access a version of the below that includes illustrations on my blog.

Doctor Who by Andrew Cartmel