Talk:Doctor Who Magazine graphic novels

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Article needs splitting, restructuring, better definition.

I'm not sure where to begin on the confused nature of this article. The Panini range is its own deal and must be treated separately. It has a specific purpose, format, and production sensibility. Nowhere on this wiki is there treatment of that range's distinctiveness, and it's primarily because it's lumped into this one page. Secondly there should be discussion on how the term "graphic novel" when applied to Doctor Who does not meet even the normal, broad definition of graphic novel, and is rather a synonym of "trade paperback". Discussion can and will be added to the text to explain the varying usages of "graphic novel" in the British market versus the North American.

A couple of things on the list here are not graphic novels in either sense of the word, while only Age of Chaos comes close to meeting generally-accepted North American sense of the term. Something which is a numbered part of another series (as indicated by the indicia) isn't a graphic novel. On whatever side of the Atlantic you find yourself, the 1985 Summer Special or The Dalek Chronicles aren't graphic novels, they're normal issues of the Doctor Who Magazine Specials. CzechOut | 23:37, 23 July 2008 (UTC)