Resistance will be DELETED

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Saw this cover for Doctor Who/Star Trek #2 in JK Woodward's portfolio at the London Super Comic Con and have been waiting for it to surface online so I could post it.



That industrial steel finish is SO 21st Century, whereas black NEVER goes out of style.



This is from JK Woodward's own blog so seems fair game to post! :)



This is still in transit to me, but posting this cover proved too perfect an opportunity to share the scan of it I got from JK! (His pens ran out of ink before he could finish it on the weekend of the Convention, but with this end result, I don't mind that in the slightest)

As the Team Supreme prove that there is NOTHING better for a sci-fi geek like Doug than a technorganic best buddy when it comes time for cosplaying!



Fab, isn't it? :)
 

Comments

[aeka]

Agreed about the upgrade chambers. It was like walking into a slaughter house, only your brain was carved out and placed into a cyberbody, and the rest was incinerated. x_x

Maybe it's just me, but I thought that the "it hurts" comment was also in reference to the fact that these were human brains that were forced into a cybersuit, and should they have become aware of their state, it would've been too traumatising an experience for them to the point of death as the end of Age of Steel demonstrated.

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Only having the brain be removed also seemed like a bit of a step backwards, and made them into too much like Daleks. I liked the idea that with Cybermen you would never know what was organic, and what was cybernetic underneath the bodysuit and it would probably vary from Cyberman to Cyberman (and again in the ones from The Tenth Planet, the clothlike facepiece did suggest there was at least some of the face/skull still in place underneath with was a really creepy idea)

The "it hurts" was definitely because of that, but it was also a new notion that was only added in to give the Doctor a way to defeat them in 44 minutes. Emotions shouldn't be lethal to Cybermen, just... wasteful and redundant (from their POV)

As counter examples, in Doctor Who Weekly years before we'd met Kroton, a Cyberman with emotions like compassion and empathy (A good character there, should see if I can dig out his appearances). Miss Hartigan as the Cyberking retained her emotions (and was such a wasted opportunity as a character, she should have stuck around and been a more interesting Borg Queen) and so (in a rather disjointed way) did Yvonne Hartman, and John Lumic himself)

[jkcarrier]

Moffat may be on your side, re: Cybermen construction. There's that scene in "The Pandorica Opens" where the one Cyberman's head pops open and there's an entire human skull inside.

[shadur]

Also note the attempted conversion of Craig in _Closing Time_ - they just weld the helmet and chest armor on over his existing body. Although that's probably just the /start/ of the procedure, and it had to be something essentially undo-able for story purposes...

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Very true, and those were not the most sane/efficient Cybermen, considering a Cybermat was doing most of the work (It might have been better to NOT have actual Cybermen in that episode, and just have Bitey TRYING, and failing, to make Cybermen.