I found a Doctor Who Easter egg hiding in plain sight for 7 years.

In the The Lost Dimension #1 (2017), the Eleventh Doctor speaks an alien language:

I've seen this for years, but never thought to look closer at the alien symbols. They obviously didn't match "We'll have the translation matrix fixed in a jiffy", so I knew something must be hidden here:

So I got to code breaking and long story short:

"A stream of unintelligible dingbats, an alien language"

And after all that hard work, I decided to Google "comics alien language font" and found out this is a font called Gobbledygook:

>Mother G

>Present in multiple time periods

>Not a time traveler

>The TARDIS owes her a favour or two

>Real name unbelievable, even to the Doctor

>Refuses to elaborate further

>Leaves

The Haunting of...

AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster

AUDIO: The Haunting of Malkin Place

TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati

PROSE: The Haunting of Gabriel Chase

AUDIO: The Haunting of Bryck Place

Gods and Monsters: Phase 2

Cutaway Comics continues its quest to make spin-off comics for the most Doctor Who obscure characters ever!

Drax: London Calling

Drax: L.A. Woman

Iris Wildthyme: Partners in Time

Losko of the Antonine

...who? Why, Loko the unnamed Antonine Killer from the novelization of Warriors' Gate!

You can support the project on IndieGoGo:

The Saga of K9

1977: Bob Baker and Dave Martin create K9 for the Doctor Who story The Invisible Enemy. He was only supposed to be in that serial, but production made him a companion as he would be popular with kids.

After four seasons as a companion, K9 became an icon of classic Doctor Who. Due to a quirk of character rights at the time, Bob Baker and Dave Martin owned K9 as a character. This spawned decades of attempts to make a spin-off featuring K9...

1979: The Adventures of K9 and Other Mechanical Creatures:

1980: The Adventures of K9 books are published. K9 fights the Time Lord "Omegon" in one:

1981: A pilot episode is made for K9 and Company. The BBC does not pick it up for a full season:

1982: The K9 Annual 1983 is published:

1997-98: DWM 253 announces a four-part pilot for a K9 series is being developed. DWM 269 reveals concept art made by Rory McLeish:

2006: K9 returns to Doctor Who in School Reunion:

2007: K9 is relegated to small cameos in The Sarah Jane Adventures as Bob Baker is still developing his own K9 spin-off:

2007: Dave Martin passes away.

2009-10: A K9 spin-off series is finally made in Australia, independently from the BBC. K9 had to be redesigned because the BBC owns his original design. The series has mixed reviews at best and lasts one season:

2015: The Essential Book of K9 is published. It features another redesign of K9 in the comic Short Circuit.

2015: A film titled K9: TimeQuake is announced and slated for a theatrical release in 2017. It will feature K9 fighting the Time Lord Omega.

2017 comes and goes with no news.

2018: A multi-million dollar K9 TV series is being developed to lead into K9: TimeQuake:

2020: The anthology book K9: Megabytes is released and promoted as a prequel to TimeQuake.

2021: Bob Baker passes away. His obituary mentions he has written scripts for a K9 film and TV series:

2023: Concept art for K9: Omega Rises is shown at the conversion Invasion Blackpool. The concept art shows K9, a new male character, Omega, Matter Beasts, and Dinodragons. The status of this project is unknown.

Here's a challenge:

Name a major historical/cultural figure who doesn't have a page on the Doctor Who Wiki

Examples I (didn't) find:

"Major figure" is obviously impossible to define. Try to think of people that would be mentioned in an English-language history textbook.

Try to avoid anyone who became a major figure in the 21st century. (e.g. Kanye West, Angela Merkel, Kim Jong Un) It's not that surprising if they haven't been mentioned in Doctor Who.

...they need to stop using this promo pic

Doctor Who is meeting the Sherlock Holmes of the supernatural

If David Bradley wants to retire as the First Doctor, I'd like to see Anton Lesser take a stab at the role.

The second I saw him as Major Partagaz in Andor, I thought he looked a lot like the First Doctor.

Found this on a Wikipedia discussion page:

"and it's doubtful we will ever see her again"

lmao

Fun fact: The Doctor Who wiki is having a mini civil war over the title of this book:

The official title is Doctor Who: In Wonderland. Simple, right?

The wiki normally drops the "Doctor Who:" and should call the novel "In Wonderland".

However, Paul Magrs has said the title of the novel is "Doctor Who In Wonderland". It is based on Alice in Wonderland, after all!

But then he said to keep the colon!

To make matters worse, the "Doctor Who in Wonderland" camp can't agree if the "In" should be capitalized or not, giving us another Star Trek Into Darkness debate:

So that leaves us with four title options with no consensus:

Guys, I just lost

Doctor Who + Days of the week

The Legend of Ruby Sunday:

I Hate Mondays:

Tuesday:

Wednesdays For Beginners:

Black Thursday:

Man Friday:

Saturday:

There are no Doctor Who stories with Saturday in the title. Ironic...

Full cast for The War Between the Land and the Sea

Fun fact: All of these cast members have been in Doctor Who before, four of them as different characters!

Jemma Redgrave is returning as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Alexander Devrient is returning as Christofer Ibrahim.

Ruth Madeley is returning as Shirley Anne Bingham, and she previously played Hebe Harrison in Big Finish:

Russell Tovey was Alonso Frame:

Gugu Mbatha-Raw was Tish Jones, Martha's sister:

Colin McFarlane is returning (!) as General Austin Pierce from Torchwood. He also played Jonathan Moran in series 9:

Doctor Who is never beating the "UK only has 12 actors" allegations.

I am eagerly waiting for titles and covers for these Doctor Who Icons novels. (What's taking so long?!)

#1 is about the Thirteenth Doctor and Frida Kahlo

#2 is about the Tenth Doctor, Charles Darwin, and Silurians

#3 is about Fifteenth Doctor and Shirley Jackson

I'm gonna take a stab that the Darwin book title will reference On the Origin of Species.

Alternatively, Endless Forms Most Beautiful would be an incredible title. From this Darwin quote:

And yes, Big Finish already did Darwin and Silurians:

Arachnids in the UK (2018)

Friendship is Universal

Official Doctor Who x Star Trek poster by Dusty Abell

Top: Yasmin Khan, Kira Nerys, Clara Oswald, Spock, Amy Pond, Data, Rose Tyler, La'an Noonien Singh, Sarah Jane Smith, Bill Potts, William Riker, Cleveland Booker, Donna Noble

Middle: Jonathan Archer with Porthos, War Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Sixth Doctor, the Guardian of Forever, the TARDIS, Fugitive Doctor, Eighth Doctor, First Doctor, Leonard McCoy, Beverly Crusher

Third Doctor with a tribble, Michael Burnham, Kathryn Janeway, James T. Kirk, Thirteenth Doctor, Christopher Pike, Philippa Georgiou, Fifth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Second Doctor, Benjamin Sisko, Twelfth Doctor

Fifteenth Doctor, K9, Jean-Luc Picard, Fourth Doctor

Bottom: Weeping Angel, Wirrn, Goblin, Khan Noonien Singh, Morbius, V5, Gorn, Beep the Meep, Cyberman, Maestro, Locutus of Borg, Vashta Nerada, Robot Yeti, Ood, Sil, Dalek, K1, Zygon, Kruge, Silent, Missy, Dukat, Ruk

The Seventh Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Fourteenth Doctor are conspicuously absent. Also disappointed that Voyager's Doctor didn't make the cut!

Bonus fact: Peter Capaldi auditioned to play Benjamin Sisko. Great to see them side by side.