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Doctor Who - Evening's Empire (pp 44)

Artists: Richard Piers Rayner (All) , Andrew Cartmel (Writer)

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Doctor Who Classic Comics (1993) p42

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Title:	Doctor Who - Evening's Empire (pp 44)
Artist:	Richard Piers Rayner (All)
Artist:	Andrew Cartmel (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	139
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Added to Site:	7/15/2023
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"My beautiful city...and you lot have ruined it!"

Evening's Empire, a 7th Doctor and Ace tale from 1991, is an absolute key text from the 'wilderness years' (1989 - 2005) of Doctor Who.

Written by the final TV season's script editor Andrew Cartmel, and illustrated by then up-and-coming artist (Hellblazer, with Jamie Delano) Richard Piers Rayner (both of whom were purposefully commissioned by then editor John Freeman), the story (and art) had all the detail, introspection and JCR meta-textualness that were characteristic of Doctor Who in the 1990s. From the Virgin New Adventures, onwards through the abortive 1996 Movie and beyond, this way of presenting the show without TV set the stage for Doctor Who's revival in 2005: when it was to be dominated by TV production professionals, the very same fans who had spent the last decade keeping the flame alight...

Evening's Empire has had a checkered history. This is page 44 of the 2016 Panini reprint of Evening's Empire, edited by Scott Gray.

Richard takes up the story:
"It's...one of the 'missing' pages that I re-drew for the more recent Panini Comics reprint. When the reprint was first suggested there were several pages that, through the years, I'd sold to collectors and, despite an internet appeal that successfully located some, 7 pages were unaccounted for and were re-drawn."

"When I looked back at it, there�s a line of dialogue on the original page : �My city is still burning!� But there wasn�t a spark in sight. So I added the conflagration on the new piece. I liked the pose (in panel 3)but it was too bland. So I added a more dramatic lighting effect. And I wanted to reference the UNIT squad from the prologue and show that they survived (Panel 2)."

Pen, ink wash on thick cartridge paper.
Page 17" x 11"

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