The story so far: the Virgin New Adventures have wound their way through numerous story arcs and phases – the Timewyrm saga, the Cat’s Cradle trilogy, the arc surrounding Ace’s departure and return and Benny’s arrival, an era of tension among the TARDIS crew, the alternate history crisis, an experimental period, the build-up and aftermath … Continue reading The Virgin New Adventures: From Happy Endings To Damaged Goods| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: actually, there’s not much need to do a “story so far” with the Missing Adventures is there? The whole point of the sequence is that it’s meant to provide …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after the Timewyrm and Cat’s Cradle cycles, after Ace’s depature and return and the recruitment of Benny, after a drift into increasingly grimdark material that turned…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Last year I reviewed A Mirror of Dreams, Andrew Wild’s account of the early days of the 1980s neo-prog movement as seen through the careers of the bands he identifies as the “Big Six…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: with the Missing Adventures series’ first few releases having established the series, we’ve seen a range of different writers taking a wide range of approaches when it…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: Peter Darvill-Evans has ascended to becoming editor in overall charge of Virgin’s fiction lines, leaving Rebecca Levene in charge of the Doctor Who novel lines. Under Darvil…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy