lazenichHey guys, reaperfox here, the 'artist' behind doctorwhy and the one who started this whole mess in the first place. I just figured I'd use this time to spam your friends list one final time to say a genuine thank you to everybody who commented, laughed, rolled their eyes or cried at the comic.

doctorwhy began over a year ago when I came up with the fantastic idea of drawing 200 intentionally bad webcomics, as seen here on my personal journal. This masterpiece was the start of it:



Thankfully, within the week I'd recruited Mr. lazenich to write them, since he's largely more talented than I. And honestly, if it weren't for him, Worst of the Time Lords wouldn't have lasted a week, let alone a year. For all the artistic talent I may or (more accurately, may not) have, doctorwhy simply wouldn't exist without his ideas and sense of humour.

For a tiny anecdote, we've never missed an update, but the first time doctorwhy was ever late was when Mr. lazenich and I went to watch the 2008 Christmas special being filmed in Gloucester. You can view some footage I took here on my Youtube page and, for those of you who have seen the special, you should hover over that day's comic to get referential alt text from a line we actually overheard being said while they filmed. In fact, I still have some genuine, bona fide Doctor Who snow stolen straight from the set. We were there until way past midnight - hence the late comic - and it was a pretty awesome experience.

Anyway, enough of this. I'd like to shout out and thank you to fionacat for giving us a paid Livejournal account for the year - we really needed it! And, to say it once again, thank you guys so much for following us along the way. I never would have thought so many people would enjoy it, and it really was your constant encouragement that spurned me on when the prospect of drawing yet another comic seemed just a little too daunting (we never had a backlog - we actually did create one a day, every day and believe me, I've had my moments!)

To quote the sage himself, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.

And I've had a blast.

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lazenich here, and yes, Worst of the Time Lords is over. A project intended as a year of terrible comics that blossomed into a year of tolerable comics, dipping where appropriate back into the waters of terrible, has come to an end. But don't be sad! The Doctor wouldn't want you to be sad. Well, he would, but he has a history of making poor personal decisions. Don't listen to him. He's not even a real doctor.

I have to say (due to contractual obligations) that it's been an interesting experience writing this comic, and watching my approach to it develop from just saying something mildly depressing to usually having a joke of some sort. If I had to do it all again, the only thing I would change is that I'd probably make the alt-texts the dialogue for the comic, and put the actual dialogue in a pit of some kind. Other than that I'm fine.

But it's you, the Viewing Audience, that really inspired us to keep making the comic and also develop a habit of paranoically double-checking every fact on Wikipedia. Thanks for all your fantastic comments, they honestly did make it all worthwhile and some of you had funny icons. Some of them were funnier than the comics. I'm slightly bitter about that. I know that, much of the time, we didn't reply nearly enough, but we did read everything you said, or if you posted on really old entries we'll read it eventually; either way, if you did have any important (or completely irrelevant) questions or anything that went unanswered at the time, then post it on this entry and we'll make sure to respond.

Anyway, now I'm done acting all Final, I'm going to be contradictory and tell you that, while this comic is finished, it doesn't mark the end of us producing Doctor Who-related rubbish, especially given how many people out there seem to enjoy it. Beginning January 24th we'll be starting a new project called A Journal of Improbable Things, a big ol' Who-related repository of mostly comics but also pretty much anything else relevant we feel like making. We personally guarantee each entry will be twice as much fun as the average Worst of the Time Lords comic, though it'll only be updating once or twice a week so on average you'll be having slightly less fun. We're sorry. We're so sorry.

A Journal of Improbable Things will be located over at vworpvworp; be the first on your IP block to add it!

As for the worst of the Time Lords... maybe he'll show up again sometime. Who can really say with one so inscrutable and frankly irrational? But until then, whenever you look up at the stars, just remember that he's out there somewhere, moping over some chick he picked up off the street.