Last of the Real Ones - New Page 5/21

The Last of the Real Ones
Series 10 Cover
- Simm's Master, 12th Doctor, and Myrnin (and the TARDIS). Technically, these are our three main characters for a bit.
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Medium: Watercolor on large watercolor paper. Done 2020

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• CW: This comic will contain blood. There will be warnings and spoiler tags for such pages when they occur.
  
  
• There WILL be spoilers for the Doctor Who universe. Relevant at this point, there will be spoilers for Series 10.

• Believe it or not, but you can probably read this GN without knowledge of any fandoms in general, since there are two people who have no idea what's going on and both happen to be the main characters. You're in safe(ish) hands.
  

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It was supposed to be a normal day. Just getting a cup of coffee somewhere nice and quiet. It's Friday. It was supposed to be a day off.
It was, of course, the last thing it was actually going to be. 
Entering a coffee shop, The Doctor finds himself followed by an oddly dressed man who proceeds to sit down in the seat across from him and say, in no uncertain terms, to leave.
Rightly so, The Doctor wants to finish his coffee. He doesn't want to deal with a town which seems intent on kicking him out for no good reason. Anyway, the man with the funny hat seems to be a bit out of the ordinary. Just because he seems to be on The Doctor's side is even more unusual. Recognizing that both of them are something that the neither has never seen, both of them end up on a time machine/spaceship - a TARDIS. One trip. Only one trip.
"Take me to where you come from," says the man.
This was the beginning of the end.

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12th Doctor:
Peter Capaldi. :'P

Myrnin: 

Version with vampire teeth:
(Medium: Watercolor on watercolor paper.)


(Medium: Photo editing off a CC0 photos found in Pexel.)

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Doctor Who
Series 10

Episode 1: Never Want to Leave
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Medium: Acrylic on cardstock. Done in 2019.

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Page 1

Friday, 2016
Morganville, TX
- And thus we start our comic. My RP partner started out the RP and left it pretty opened ended on where The Doctor was going or landed, since at the time she didn't really know for sure which characters I was going to RP. I have had mercy and given you a location, though in theory Doc doesn't even know where he's landed. He just wanted a cup of coffee.
- I'm going to end up doing notes like this, very likely. Hopefully all the pretty formatting will stick.
- Dates and locations will be added as much as possible, when possible. However, due to timey-whimey shenanigans and the fact both of us would state X amount of time would pass only to realize that it really should have been X amount of time, it has been a bit debated how long within canon these jokers have been traveling around. For a recent conversation today, and for convince, I placed this at some point in 2016. Years should progress in order, ish, but since this comic/RP jumped around in time I see a need for a time/location stamp.

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Page 2

I should know him ...
He's wearing a coat in Texas ...
Even I'm not that crazy for attention.
- I'm going to be drawing this outfit for a while. This day last forever. They do a lot.
- I'm not particularly impressed with my design for "Common Grounds", but I wanted it to look plain. So I guess I got that!
- Meet our second main character, by the way! His outfits are gonna be so fun to design as the story progresses. 
- I made a specific point of starting his pony-tail off as short.
- Despite the pony-tail I draw, my RP partner supports Myrnin wearing his hair to his shoulders. XD
- Small towns; you're supposed to know everyone.
- Getting the format correct on this was hilarious.

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Yeah, cup of coffee, five sugars ... yeah, you heard me ... yes, I want five ... thank you, sir. Oh, a donut too ... well, if I wasn't getting the donut, I would've gotten ten.
There's nothing to do.
No, no, the point of having a day off is to have nothing to do, right?
Hum?
No. Day off. No snooping. No pondering. No nothing.
- The Doctor gets not only his first speaking lines, but the first speaking lines in the comic! ... and they're that. XD
- First time seeing Myrnin's face! Yay!
- If you notice, The Doctor is on a phone. To be noted, I probably should have made it a flip-phone. I doubt he can use anything else. XD
- If I wasn't editing for continuity's sake - since this plot IS three years old - then there would probably have been a VERY blatant mistake here. I make a couple along the way too, ha ha. If anyone is curious about this mistake/s, feel free to comment and I'll reveal. ^^
- Bonus points to anyone who notices which item of Myrnin's clothing changed color!

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Page 4

Oliver doesn't seem to be taking care of his business today.
Who is that guy?
*Shrug*
How in heaven's name did he get here?
*Tap, tap, tap*
Through Amelie's security. Through mine.
- Can we say someone forgot to put their signature in, so now the cash-register says it?
- A certain item of clothing is back to being the correct color.
- Some people might be slightly worried about Doc being around.

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Page 5

I actually have a transcript now, so enjoy just ... reading that if you'd like. XD
- I took great joy in the expressions here.
- The Doctor's description of Myrnin just completely sums him up.
- Thus the retcon begins for continuity. XD
- I enhanced the color for Myrnin's eyes digitally in the third panel a bit because the colors didn't mix. Like, watercolor didn't mix? I'm shocked???

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Page 6

If anyone was curious why I did these, it's just for funsies. ;P
- So tech didn't like me today. XD I had to redo this page partly three times and then I was posting it here and it gave me a 502 Bad Gateway (twice), so I had to rewrite all this (only once, because I wised up). Aaaah well.
- Bill got some border text colors. If I give a character a color for their voice/thoughts/messages than that means they'll turn up as a character (major or minor) sooner or later. Haven't had a chance to show yet, but regular stock characters speak in black-and-white.
- This episode is very dialogue heavy. It will come and it will go. Character interactions are fun. I'll try to make the dialogue heavy pieces as entertaining as possible.
- Myrnin's overheating. Panicking in red haze, like you do.

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- Well, finally actually said it. I hope there were enough hints, whoops. XD
- Somehow I kinda doubt anyone here has yet to believe me that you don't need to have watched Doctor Who, but on the off chance, "For Rassilon's sake" might as well just be "For God's sake" and you really don't need to know anything else. In 5 seasons worth of context, Rassilon hasn't been important. XD And when I started this, I had zero clue nor did I care who Rassilon was. It is not important for this story.
- In other news, please take me out of Common Grounds. I'm so sick of painting chairs. XD

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Page 8


- This page and the next one are ones which I already want to redraw.
- I may or may not have had a slight style change in the last month.
- I may or may not use it for upcoming pages.
- Anyway, small retcons of the original script continue, in this case expressing some dialogue verbally rather than as thoughts.
- The Doctor's level of chill rises and does not react.
- Also had to retcon the fact that Myrnin can hear the heart beats (two hearts) of The Doctor because totally forgot that was a thing when I was first doing this ... oh, in 2017? I don't know when this dialogue was written ... 2017 or 2016.
- The purple border will be explained at a later date (er ... either next episode or a couple episodes from now, can't remember which). Suffice it to say that Myrnin did mention there was a border. The purple mini-borders around buildings within the town is a different matter.
- As it says, not to scale. Think of those little kid maps where all the major landmarks are giant and that's how I drew that map.

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Page 9


- Somehow got this up finally. XD
- I didn't want to keep doing the same old background. So two panels got the solid color treatment.
- Shocked Myrnin was fun to draw.
- I remember being very amused when we (me and Bolderpelt) wrote this. 
- Transferring RP into comic form is fairly easy until you realize that all your drama is mostly tension and dialogue based.
- So I'm going to be learning how to panel better here soon. Next episode will probably be a lot more experimental than this.

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Page 10

- Someone tell me if the black text on grey background is hard to read! I'll change it. I'm trying to work out Generic People speak. Might have to try white on black if this doesn't work.
- I was trying out new way to panel a page. Still working on those dynamic poses. I've been learning while I'm busy coloring the old pages and I've worked out some other ways to do some things.
-Generic Stand-In is getting the death stare. Why would Myrnin ever forget the rules?
- This is the first time I've gotten a wide enough view of common grounds to see just how mall it is.
- Notice that - okay, it may be hard to see since the black blends in a bit - there is still people in the back of the cafe. (//cough// away from the windows //cough//)
- Oliver is actually a name to remember for the future.
- Back when me and Bolderpelt were RPing in The Thieves Museum, I RPed Oliver as well as Myrnin. I couldn't not mention him in the beginning of the new RP.
- I recently saved all the old 50 pages of the beginning of the RP and I'm reminded how LONG this day is. I may retcon split it up.

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Page 11


- Think we have three or four pages left to this episode?
- Myrnin so wants him to leave.
- Am I name dropping "Founder" enough? I never know the balance of hints.
- There is very little coffee left.

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Page 12

- Myrnin gives it all up as a bad job.
- The shop next to Common Grounds says "Andy & Co." It isn't relevant, but I figured I'd mention.
- Four pages left for this episode!
- Morganville is old, very old. At least 300 years. The Founder is old, very old.
- Myrnin is selectively good at secrets when he wants to know the other person's secret just as much.

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Page 13

-The Doctor doesn't like the name Oliver all that much. He thinks it sounds like the cat from Oliver and Co.
-I got lazy with eyebrow color consistency. I painted this in the semi-dark.
-The counter-hand really isn't impressed.


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Page 14

-So we're almost done with the episode y'all!
-Just ... two more pages, I think?
-That's Oliver in Panel 2 talking with the counter clerk. Yes, he has a similar design to the Doctor. No, this was not intentional. XD Oliver has a sharper face, I would say? Also has very specific parts of his hair going grey, but he's too far away to completely see.


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-You know. Finally getting an update, heh.
-I'd like to get better quality watercolors, like what the first pages of this comic were made from. But cheap watercolor is cheap.
-You know as soon as someone looks into the box, they're gonna be here for a while.


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-Had to look at my interior TARDIS reference for this one.



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Episode 2: Part 1 Louder than Sirens / Louder than Bells
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Medium: watercolor on watercolor paper. Done in 2020-21.

Title derived from Drumming Song by Florence + The Machine. 

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One long hiatus later and we're back! I got a drawing tablet and this, always being a fun comic, thus will follow what I consider 'fun' and become digitize. It also features me attempting to work a style for it. So here we are! To my knowledge, the previous pages wont be re-done. At least not yet. So here's what Doc and Myrnin look like going forward!


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- Google translates best attempt at: Looks like a pocket dimension housing multiple layers of science and alchemy.
- First time with a page in this style and I am VERY pleased. Is it perfect, no? Do I still really like it? Yes.

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Page 18





- Well that took a while. :/ Had that sitting with just Doc to color for AGES. Still have to work out a consistent word-bubble.
- We've also reached what is the Usual Way Doctor Gets Companions(tm). He just invites random dudes to travel with him. Completely normal.

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Page 19



- Back from Germany, so more pages! Or at least a page.
- Does the background look familiar? Yeeeeah, I'm gonna pick and choose how many angles I draw the TARDIS from. XD So we're getting the stock background I made for this exact purpose. When I'm motivated, I'll redraw from scratch, but I'm not spending further hours than I desire on it.

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