The Blogs of Doom

The Blogs of Doom
Publisher:	Panini Comics
Type:	Short story series
Release date:	16 November 2017 –

The Blogs of Doom was the title for a series of prose vignettes by Jonathan Morris which appeared in Doctor Who Magazine beginning in 2017. Similar to the earlier Brief Encounter series, it used its short format to give the spotlight to a variety of comparatively obscure characters.

Overview

The premise of each entry of The Blogs of Doom was described as "Sneaky peeks into the secret diaries of characters in the Doctor's orbit…". This meant that all short stories, which often recorded events in the life of the character immediately leading up to their appearance in a Doctor Who television story, were told in first-person perspective, and often in an epistolary style — a stylistic feature previously used by some Brief Encounters.

The entries, all of which featured original illustrations by Ben Morris, were credited as being "as told to" Jonathan Morris. They were unafraid to occasionally dip over into comedy, often turning the viewer's understanding of certain elements of the original TV stories on its head. A sense of continuity in a wider, connected Doctor Who universe was achieved by having characters from shared time periods comment on the events of other TV stories set in the same time and place: for example, in The Ghoul Patsy from The Talons of Weng-Chiang mentions hearing tell of the Whisper Men and the Crimson Horror.

#	Issue	Full illustration	Title	Featuring
1	519		Jorj	Jorj from World Enough and Time
2	520		Ian the Elf	Ian, Santa Claus and Shona McCullough from Last Christmas
3	521		The Veil	The Veil from Heaven Sent
4	522		The Ghoul	Patsy from The Talons of Weng-Chiang
5	523		Colin	Colin Redmayne from The Enemy of the World
6	524		Nerys	Nerys from The Runaway Bride
7	525		Nilson	Nilson from Warriors of the Deep
8	526		Sevrin	Sevrin from Genesis of the Daleks
9	527		Robinson	Robinson from Invasion of the Dinosaurs
10	528		Scaroth	Scaroth from City of Death
11	529		Acting Captain Zachary Cross Flane	Zachary Cross Flane from The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit
12	530		The Monks	The Monks from Extremis / The Pyramid at the End of the World / The Lie of the Land
13	531		Dr Malcolm Taylor	Malcolm Taylor from Planet of the Dead
14	532		Panna	Panna from Kinda
15	533		Charles Dickens	Charles Dickens from The Unquiet Dead
16	534		Dortmun	Dortmun from The Dalek Invasion of Earth
17	535		Meglos	Meglos from Meglos
18	536		Medok	Medok from The Macra Terror
19	537		Sentreal	Sentreal from Mission to the Unknown
20	538		Lady Peinforte	Peinforte from Silver Nemesis
21	539		Doctor Fendelman	Fendelman from Image of the Fendahl
22	540		Sam Seeley	Sam Seeley from Spearhead from Space
23	541		Mehendri Solon	Mehendri Solon from The Brain of Morbius
24	542		The Inquisitor	Darkel from The Trial of a Time Lord
25	543		Commander Fabian	Fabian and Elena from The Twin Dilemma
26	545		Dalek Caan	Dalek Caan from The Stolen Earth / Journey's End
27	547		Bert the Landlord	Bert from The Dæmons
28	548		Harry Sullivan	Harry Sullivan from Revenge of the Cybermen
29	549		Prisoner Zero	Prisoner Zero from The Eleventh Hour
30	550		Hieronymous	Hieronymous from The Masque of Mandragora
31	551		Doris Griffiths	Doris Griffiths from The Green Death
32	552		Tlotoxl	Tlotoxl from The Aztecs
33	553		Larry Nightingale	Larry Nightingale from Blink
34	554		Herbert George Wells	H. G. Wells from Timelash
35	555		The Investigator	The Investigator from The Mutants
36	556		Harold Chorley	Harold Chorley from The Web of Fear
37	557		Dr Black	Henry Black from Vincent and the Doctor
38	558		Light	Light from Ghost Light
39	560		Seb	Seb from Dark Water / Death in Heaven
40	561		Poul	Poul from The Robots of Death