Launched on downthetubes back in 2022, we’re delighted to bring you the opening episode of the final chapter in an unofficial, not-for-profit Doctor Who comic strip “Terror from the Deep”, written by John Freeman, originally drawn by Danny Cushion, who is still in recovery from a long illness, featuring art by Dan Dare and Unit 666 artist Bill Storie.
Set beneath the English Channel, “Terror from the Deep” pits the Seventh Doctor and Ace against both the Movellans and, for now, reunited Daleks – but things have not gone well for either, their forces now in complete disarray. Now, the Doctor is about to make a final play… unaware, perhaps, his actions, possibly due to the use of an illegal Time Scoop, may have brought him unwanted attention from his home planet, Gallifrey…
My thanks again to Paul Cooke for his help with the most recently published episodes, back in June last year, which by coincidence got the strip to a point where a second change of artist works perfectly… with a slight divergence involving an appearance by Third Doctor era Time Lords.
Thank you to Bill Storie for stepping up to the plate… “Terror from the Deep” will reach its finale in the next few weeks…
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• Read Doctor Who – Terror from the Deep from the start on downthetubes
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Further episodes of “Terror from the Deep” will appear weekly, on Saturdays at 5.16pm, featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace in an exciting adventure with the Daleks.
Doctor Who © BBC | The Daleks © BBC/Terry Nation, designed by Raymond Cusick. “Doctor Who – Terror from the Deep” is a not-for-profit production
For Those Who Came in Late…
“Terror from the Deep” might just hold some sort of record for “longest gestation period for a piece of Doctor Who comic project”. Its origins lie in a plan I had while editing Doctor Who Magazine in the 1990s to launch a Doctor Who newspaper strip.
As you can read here (“Doctor Who – Terror from the Deep, the newspaper strip that might have been“) The idea that had been kicked around at Marvel UK for over a year before two weeks of test strips, plotted and scripted by myself and drawn by Gerry Dolan, finally appeared in Doctor Who Magazine Issues 167 and 168 in late 1990.
This project began as a pitch project to the Daily Express for a newspaper strip, way back in 1989, but the end of the show’s “classic era” on TV meant it did not progress.
• Read the background to creating Terror from the Deep here
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Our thanks to Paul Hanley, artists Mike Collins and Lee Sullivan, and the late Gerry Dolan – and Andy Walker for connecting me up with Paul Cooke
Doctor Who © BBC | The Daleks © BBC/Terry Nation, designed by Raymond Cusick. “Doctor Who – Terror from the Deep” is a not-for-profit production
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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