The final cover for the Doctor Who-inspired comic zine Vworp Vworp! (Issue 6) has been revealed – a stunning wraparound by Robert Hack, who illustrated the Doctor Who and the Daleks hardback last year, and is back this month, with Rose.

Ian and Barbara are on the trail of an unearthly cover-mounted DVD, but the shiny wee scallywag has done a fast one! Oh well. Pub, Miss Wright?
As we previously reported here and here, Vworp Vworp! Issue 6 offers a staggering 180 pages celebrating the 60th anniversary of the show and its many comic and other fiction spin-offs, you will not want to miss it.
As well as the illuminating articles and comic strips you’ve come to expect, Vworp Vworp! Issue Six includes lengthy interviews with actress Carole Ann Ford; actor, writer and comedian Mark Gatiss; and television composer and sound technician Brian Hodgson, the original sound effects creator for Doctor Who.
You’ll be able to preorder Vworp Vworp! Issue Six very soon – just keep an eye on the project’s social feeds for details.
• Check out Jeff Cummins striking First Doctor Vworp Vworp! cover here
• Check out Colin Brockhurst and Andrew Orton’s Vworp Vworp! Issue 6 cover here
• Buy a copy of Vworp Vworp! Issue Three, Issue Four, Issue Five and a compendium of Issues One and Two now, and follow the title on social media for Issue Six news on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter
• Follow Robert Hack on: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter
• Check out Doctor Who: Panel to Panel Episode 150 An Interview with Robert Hack via iTunes or Podomatic
• Doctor Who and the Daleks Illustrated Edition
By David Whitaker and Robert Hack
A dramatic reinvention of the very first Doctor Who novel from 1963 and the hundreds of novels that followed, but few can claim to have surpassed its powerful storytelling and unique atmosphere. Written by Doctor Who’s first story editor, David Whitaker and lavishly illustrated by acclaimed comic book artist Robert Hack.
Adapted from Terry Nation’s first Dalek story, Doctor Who and the Daleks sees Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright caught up in the flight through time and space of the mysterious Doctor and his granddaughter Susan. They travel in the TARDIS to the planet Skaro, where they strive to save the peace-loving Thals from the evil intentions of the hideous Daleks. Can they succeed? And if they do, will Ian and Barbara ever again see their native Earth?

• Doctor Who – Rose The Illustrated Edition
By Russell T. Davies, illustrated by Robert Hack
“Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!”
In a lair somewhere beneath central London, a malevolent alien intelligence is plotting the end of humanity. Shop window dummies that can move – and kill – are taking up key positions, ready to strike.
Rose Tyler, an ordinary Londoner, is working her shift in a department store, unaware that this is the most important day of her life. She’s about to meet the only man who understands the true nature of the threat facing Earth, a stranger who will open her eyes to all the wonder and terror of the universe – a traveller in time and space known as the Doctor.
Rose is the story that brought Doctor Who back for the 21st century – and Russell T Davies’s novelisation, based on his script, set the standard for new-era Target novelisations. Now, with illustrations by acclaimed artist Robert Hack – this is Rose as you’ve never seen it before…
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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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