Draw My Lives

This was the first thing I wrote for Bad Teeth. The Doctor draws his lives. To be honest, the Draw My Life phenomenon had passed me by, but it's essentially an illustrated autobiography. I should have posted this last November during the height of Doctor Who's big fiftieth anniversary celebrations, but I was busy writing my next script for Bad Teeth and had my eye off the blog a bit.

I should stress that although I wrote the script and described what I wanted to see drawn, I didn't do the artwork and my thanks go out to the artist whoever they may be.



Maybe I'll do another post with annotations to all the geeky details.

I wrote this before we, the audience, knew anything about John Hurt's Doctor and so that's why he is omitted. At the time of posting the video has been watched over 50,000 times and managed to spark a very odd debate in the comments that cited Lungbarrow, 9/11, Beavis And Butthead, Graeme Garden, Peter Davidson (sic) and contained the assertion that the "7th doctor wasen't scottish"

A Happy Belated Birthday to Doctor Who.

Twitter Twatter #2

Here's another monthsworth of tweets:

Cowboys Versus Dinosaurs

Another of the strips that Dredd Alert has covered is the tale of futuristic cowboys that travel back to the age of the dinosaur to farm them for their Flesh. What more could you want?

Old One Eye, a female Tyrannosaurus Rex bent on revenge, was a major character in Flesh and Judge Dredd subsequently featured the clone of her son resurrected with information taken from his DNA in a manner that effectively pre-empts Jurassic Park by twelve years.

The Gloaming

Sarah wrote this to accompany a series of photographs that she had taken. I was delighted that she asked me to read it.

Twitter Twatter #1

I've finally joined Twitter. It provides me with another social media platform to neglect. For those who want to say hello, I'm on as @Davetweetedthis, but for those that don't here's a snapshot of my first month's tweets:

Let Your Hair Down

I read The Conqueror Worm, an 1843 poem by Edgar Allan Poe for Let Your Hair Down, a video by Simolab Productions. The visuals are by filmmaker Simona Piantieri and the music by composer Salvatore Schiano. The video was showcased at the Britten Theatre at the Royal College of Music. An orchestra played the soundtrack live.

I can't embed it, so here's a link instead.

Wobotics

Last year I posted every time Dredd Alert covered a new strip. Then I went off on my sabbatical and such matters went woefully under reported.

A couple of months into the strip, Judge Dredd found himself with a robot servant who took it upon itself to look after him. Walter was the Judge's biggest fan and followed him to the moon and back, despite a lack of appreciation from Dredd. Highly strung and with a speech impediment that meant he couldn't pronounce his R's. He was often put in situations that left him very emotional, required the robot to rely on rhotacisms and scream "Dwedd" a lot.

A couple of months after his first appearance, Walter got his own strip, largely comic relief but often with a surprisingly dark thread running through it, Walter The Wobot.