Fezzes Are Cool
Hey, everyone, thanks for all the well wishes. I’m still feeling a little under the weather (the plague seems to have downgraded itself to just being an average annoying cold…), but I’m feeling better everyday and hope to be productive again in the next few days.
I want to apologize to everyone for the sudden disappearing act. Between snow balling depression and falling ill, I couldn’t bring myself to so much sit in front of a computer, let alone collect my thoughts enough to share them. The truth of the matter is that between real life and working on new projects, continuing work on Evon is becoming less and less of a priority. I know that over the last year or so I have said that I have no plans to discontinue the comic, but lately it is becoming harder and harder to keep that promise. Evon has been a big part of my life for quite some time now and I’m not ready to walk away from her yet. I still hold onto hopes that I can carry her story through to the end, but for the time being the updates will be more sporadic while I prepare my other projects. I hate coming back being such a downer, but I felt that I should be fair with you all and share how I have been feeling.
On a lighter note, to celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who (for the Whoians who happen to visit this corner of the internet), here’s a sketch of Evon dressed as the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith. Mind you, the sketch is about three years old and at the time I had just started watching the show ^_^ Yes, Matt Smith is my first Doctor and, though I have watched episodes with previous Doctors, he is my absolute favorite (David Tennant is a very close second). I’m already planning on being quite sad this Christmas when Smith exits, but I’m hopefully optimist that Peter Capaldi will be able to carry on the roll and make me fall in love with the Doctor all over again.
Britt, of course, is a mere child. Which is why she fails to realize that Tom Baker was the best Doctor ever.
Bite your tongue!! Tom Baker is when the show started to lose its appeal. The best Doctor was, of course, the original — William Hartnell. And who could fail to like the line, “that giant boulder over there looks suspiciously like a police telephone call box”?
Are you sure you mean Tom Baker (4th Doctor) and not Colin Baker (6th)? Colin Baker was truly awful but Tom Baker was superb. The Genesis of the Darleks is probably one of the two greatest Dr. Who stories of all time; the other being War Games, staring Patrick Troughton (2nd Doctor).
Tom Baker was the Doctor I grew up with but after viewing all the earlier material that the BBC still has or has been able to recover from other countries, I would probably rate Troughton at the top of the list with Baker, T a very close second. It’s hard to decide between Jon Pertwee (3rd Doctor) and Matt Smith for third (bow ties and fez’s are, after all, cool!).
There can be no doubt that Baker, C, was the worst Doctor ever. Even though Sylvester McCoy had the worst scripts to work with he produced the occasional gem (Remembrance of the Daleks, anyone?).
Hartnel, the first Doctor was great in the role but his time was marred by the almost constant presence of the two highly annoying school teachers, Ian and Barbara (why couldn’t they have worn red shirts on Star Trek instead? :p ).
OTOH, the producers, writers and script editors that the BBC employs for the show are far more important to it’s success than the actor that plays the key role. This has always been true. This will always be true.
On both more mundane and more important matters, as this is my first time posting, I really ought to note that I discovered this web comic just a few days ago, through TWC and have thoroughly enjoyed reading through the archives. I hope there are many more updates to come, and I hope they come regularly, but I understand that projects of this nature are a labour of love. So regardless of the future I offer my whole hearted thanks to Brittany and Mr. Wax for the many hours of entertainment they have already provided me with. I further wish them much happiness and success no matter what the present holds and the future brings.
Thank you for entertaining a humble fan of alternative realities.
Uh, yeah, no. That would be COLIN Baker who was the Doctor when the show went downhill.
heh, ARE so cool 😛
David Tenant was my favorite Doctor, but then he’s the only one I’ve really seen. I tried to watch it when it first came out, but it couldn’t hold my interest. Then I saw a few episodes with Tenant and started to like the show, though I’m much more of a Sherlockian (the recent version, of course, the one with Benedict Cumberbatch).
And on the snowballing depression front, just know that it will get better. It’s difficult to get through at times, but just tell your depression to suck an egg and realize that you’ve got awesome friends out here to make you smile again. =3 As a sufferer of lifelong depression myself, I can tell you that though it may never truly go away, it does get better.
Actually, Smith is now #12, seeing how The Lost Doctor has been found
Don’t really have a favourite, as they all brought something different to the role (don’t really like Smith though, or at least, couldn’t watch any more of his episodes after the vanquishing of the Weeping Angels due to the story writers being absolutely rubbish)
By the way, you spelt “Whovians” wrong 😛
*raises his hand as someone who also suffers from chronic depression*
It’s really a cliched line, but “One day at a time,” is the only way to handle things like that, from experience. Just know that there are people who do care about you, and for your well-being, Britt. 🙂 I may only know you through your works, but I give my good thoughts and well-wishes all the same. You’ve always seemed a wonderful person, and you deserve all the spirits-lifting you can get.
Evon is an absolutely wonderful comic, but an ongoing work of art takes a lot of time and effort and energy out of a person. Blood, sweat, and tears, as they say. Sometimes you can get tired of something you love, it happens. Hell, every webcomic artist takes time away from their work in order to recharge, from time to time. Take it to heart that we do understand. 🙂 And those that don’t can get a pat on the back and a shove out the door!
And if you should decide to end Evon, we will be sad, but we will still honor what you’ve done, and the ideas and notions you and Wax created here. And we’ll also gladly follow you to whatever other projects you devote yourself to and decide to share with the world. 🙂
Also, I may be in the minority, but I actually liked Eccleston.
to be honest i really do hope you’ll finish Evon its absolutely amazing and one of the best webcomics out here on teh interwebz ive ever read in my opinion, and i would loooove to see more and how it ends!
but i do understand, life sometimes can hit you hard and out of nowhere. it really sucks sweetie 🙁
i had like 3 different comics i have been working on as well and man when life came at me and put me down i barely could work on a single little doodle. i would try to get into that motivation/inspiration of drawing but it never came. my poor 3 comics were suffering for it greatly, over 2 years i havnt worked on a single page for them.
but eventually you DO overcome it, which is a great thing. i finally got back and started revamping the characters and started working on pages! it does take time but when you do overcome it, its a great feeling. you get all that inspiration back and then you just cant wait to get back home and start your normal drawing sesh lol.
i know you can overcome this hun, dont let life drag you down, because you know you can do it and get back to your usual self maybe even better and twice as skilled 🙂
things happen, but never let it beat you.
wishing you the best of luck sweetie! 🙂 much loves <3
Hey – do what you have to, Ms. Shepard – we’re here for you, regardless, so don’t worry about us! It will take more than sporadic updates to keep us away! 😀
I grasped the significance of the sonic screwdriver even before I read the post, but the mop has me confused, given that I haven’t yet seen all of the Matt Smith episodes to date. Is it a reference to a particular episode?
My first Doctor was Tom Baker, when the local PBS affiliate began running Doctor Who episodes in 1981. Later I learned to love Jon Pertwee and Peter Davison.
The mop comes from the same episode as the fez. 😀 You can always bug Britt to tell you. 😉
squeal! those are suspenders , sonic screwdriver and a boetie! that is so close to a female doctor!! 🙂
Exactly. 😀
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