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News And Views - With the new season taking shape, the first story is now called Time And The Rani. The working titles for the third and fourth stories are Delta and the Bannermen and Dragonfire. There will be an entirely redesigned and re-shot title sequence and a new arrangement of the theme music. Reports are coming in that part 3 of The Faceless Ones has been unearthed. Reviews - Off The Shelf reviews Terror of the Vervoids ("bland and lacks any real descriptions") and fanzines, including The Frame. Forthcoming hardback Target releases are The Mysterious Planet (November), Strange Matter (December), Vengeance On Varos (January), Wheel In Space (February), Attack of the Cybermen (March), The Underwater Menace (April), The Ultimate Foe (May) and The Smugglers (June). Other Regulars - A new three part comic strip, The World Shapers, begins. This is the last adventure for both Peri and the Sixth Doctor, and features the Voord and an aged Jamie. Boxpops - The Ruth Rendell Mysteries debuts on ITV on 2nd August. Top of the pop charts in August 87 were La Bamba by Los Lobos, I Just Can't Stop Loving You by Michael Jackson and Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. Skaro Says - At this stage, Craig Rollins really hoped that they would drop the Delta and the Bannermen title as it sounded awful. He now considers it to be the most embarrassing DW story title ever. Jonno noted some sloppy editorial work here, as GG confirms the new title for the first story, but Off The Shelf still refers to its working title of Strange Matter! He loved The World Shapers, and still considers it one of his favourite comic strips ever, with its dark, grim atmosphere and continuity references galore. At the time, Andrew Curnow hated the Delta title, but he does feel that it suits the story perfectly. Time and the Rani was the last hardback Target he ever got. He remembers the continuity fest that was The World Shapers. Although Logo Polish had stopped buying DWM regularly by now, this issue was one of a few back issues that he bought the following year. He found the first episode of The World Shapers interesting, but to this day has never seen how it finished! Nathan Cooke hated The World Shapers though, finding it to be very silly. |
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The Back Page
Shadow wins "Best Dressed Character" in the Snakedance awards
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Basics - Issue 127, August 1987. With four extra colour pages back up
to 40 pages, this issue costs £1.25. The front cover has a photo of a Sea
Devil, and the back cover pin up is from Snakedance, the subject of this
issue's Archive.