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This is the first page of one of the many strips I drew for Marvel UK's Dr Who comic. This was an old-fashioned space opera that started off using the Daleks as characters in a story which didn't feature Dr Who, until objections arose to the idea from licence holders, and Daleks suddenly had to be removed from it in it's final stages and replaced by mysterious shiny robots that no-one could adequately explain the presence of. The other thing that was replaced on this strip was Steve Dillon - who started drawing it and the character here, named Abslom Daak, when the story began. I took over because Steve was indisposed for one reason or another that escapes me. Steve had a very gritty style of drawing, but when I took it over, I did what I usually liked to do with science-fiction stories at the time, and that's make it smooth. See, I always saw science-fiction in kind of smooth terms - steely settings, shiny spaceships and round corners. And I liked to use dot-tone shading to emphasise this smoothness, which wasn't applied then like it is now, with a computer, but was on transparent adhesive sheets you cut to shape and laid down. Anyway, I loved using that and making things smooth.
Shortly after starting this, I attended a Dr Who Convention, and was introduced to an admirer of the comic and the tv show, who was perfectly nice to me until it was revealed to her that I was the guy who'd taken over this strip from Steve. ' Oh, you're the one who ruined it ', she said. You know, you have to be nice when you're an ambassador for your art, but it can sometimes be difficult...Read more at lforlloyd.deviantart.com
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