It is with mucho balls of awesomeness that I share with you my great joy and happiness in acquring the First Doctor story The Time Meddler on DVD!

Not only did I get First Doctor goodness in a comic book the other week, I got me some First Doctor surviving episode goodness and sucked it up and loved it!

In the previous story, the last of the original companions, Barbara and Ian, have made their way back to 1965 Earth and we are now left with Vicki traveling with the Doctor. And they discover that there's a stowaway aboard the TARDIS from the previous episdeo The Chase.

Yup! As a companion leaves a new one quickly takes his/her place in Who and Steven is now a companion.

And with this story we get the very first appearance of another Time Lord... though such names really don't exist yet within the Whoniverse.

The Meddling Monk is introduced here trying to... well... "meddle" with English history in 1066. Cause ya know... if your name is the Meddling Monk you gotsta meddle in something.

Anyway, this is also the first time we get to see another TARDIS too! With a working chameleon circuit to boot.

Lotsa bad crazy Viking and proto-English running around in on sets too.

I totally loved it!!! But then again, I take what First Doctor goodness as I can because there ain't much of it left!

Thankfully, the Monk will reappear in the mostly lost The Dalek's Master Plan and the Doctor will totally fuck with him again.

And because of the way that story ends, would could conclude that The Meddling Monk was likely to have survived the Time War.

At least I hope so.

I so would love a regenerated Monk who comes back as say The Crazy Vicar or the Uproarious Rabbi. I think every regeneration would be some other variation on clergy.

Man... with the right casting of a decent comedian, you could get a lot of mileage out of him now!

While the The Master is the Doctor's Lex Luthor... the Crazy Vicar would be more of the Doctor's Mister Mxyztplk.

Please Steven Moffat... please... let me work on your new Who... pretty please... and a pointless Coupling/Who crossover!!!

If I can make the Transformers and Knots Landing work together, I can make anything work together!

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On a side note, I'm really pissed I'll never be able to see The Myth Makers. Damn you 1970s BBC! Damn you all to hell!

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And that brings me to the Fifth Doctor story Black Orchid.

There isn't enough percocet or alcohol in the world to make me forget these awful 1980's Who stories I've seen.

This is an unusual story because it is only 2-parts, a rarity for Who up to that point, but man oh man is it an awful example of Who in general.

It feels like the BBC had a bunch of costumes they were going to throw out and Who needed a cheap epsisode and this was how they did it.

As we were watching it, I was actually predicting each story movement and was pretty much right on. It is that bad!

And also, quality acting and dialog from Adric too! His being eaten by the dinosaurs won't come soon enough!

It may be uber rare, but that Lucky Draw Black Rodmius Convoy is motherfugly.

Oh. Bought Onslaught and some of the G1/G2 legends figures yesterday.

I decided that I'd go with the cheaper Onslaught and then just get the Henkei Silverbolt and Powerglide.

Speaking of comics (because there still is nothing remotely Transformersish for me to talk about)...

Remember when I had an "opps I crapped my pants" moment back in May?

Well... Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #1 came out Wednesday!

Damn! I've got some semblance of my Legion back and I get it all drawn by my favoritest super-hero artist ever George Perez.

My love-hate relationship with paper crack is just about as crazy as the love-hate relationship with plastic crack!

Alas, I sold off 95% of the comics and obviously PaperCrack.com can never truly become what I wanted it to be.

Then again... when would I have time.

These are the f'n most awesomest children's costumes ever!

If I was lucky enough to have various spawns from my loins running around the House of Love IV I guarantee you'd they'd all be dressed as Daleks for Halloween!

Hell... I'd dress up as a Roboman even. (Though I'd make Giga dress up as one of those silly pig slaves from 2 season's ago.)

Oh... and speaking of something else not Transformers-related... run to your nearest purveyor of paper crack and pick up Doctor Who: The Forgotten #1!

I'm not a fan of Who comics by any means but this mini-series first issue has First Doctor goodness in it!!! And next issues... oh yeah baby... the Second Doctor!!!

I'm all over this shit!

(Thanks to Hoop for posting the costume awesomeness!)

I don't know what's funnier.

The fact that he's 30 and in a photo used for dropping the drinking age to 18.

Or the fact he's drinking next to Brave Maximus and is surrounded by other toys!

Way to go Despotes!

Only a photo of you and Omar in a drunken brawl at Botcon would have been better!

Saw Classics Silverbolt today at Target.

Put him back.

Spent a shitload more scratch on more important things this weekend.

Definitely think I'm gonna get the Henkei version.

I wanted him since he was first shown at Botcon.

The Cybertron Evac mold is one of my all-time favorites. I love the "lower legs and feet" for some reason more than other figures.

And the tail splitting to become "wings" is great.

But man oh man... once out of the box he's the shit in copter mode but the fact is that the Chinese can but on one helluva Olympic opening, have won the gold medal for women's gymnastics, but can't paint this figure for shit!

He's awful in bot mode. You can see it in his face.

Sad. I really was excited about him.

TF Universe Blades is the 2095th Transformer that I've acquired.

Scientists say they're closer to invisibility material (CNN)

I can haz No-Room now?

Well I found these last 4 guys at lunch and then, once I got back, ended up dropping a shitload of money on a trip to San Francisco in October.

Man oh man... August is proving to be extremely expensive.

The only reason I got him was he was 50% off and I was amazed how much I liked the paint deco on a shitty mold like this.

It'll likely never leave the package.

TF Movie Deep Space Starscream is the 2094th Transformer that I've acquired.

TF Animated Soundwave and Laserbeak are the 2092nd and 2093rd Transformers that I've acquired.

TF Animated Jazz is the 2091st Transformer that I've acquired.

He'll always be Slag to me.

Snarl was my favorite Dinobot... and Snarl will always be a Stegosaur to me.

TF Animated Snarl is the 2090th Transformer that I've acquired.

I'm a sucker for two-tone paint jobs with a simple third detail color.

And damn, if this little repaint didn't scream at me from the peg.

I'm thinking the larger mold might actually look really good in these colors too.

For kicks, let's just call it Minerva ok?

TFU Legends Red Alert is the 2089th Transformer that I've acquired.

Holy shit!

First Doctor story The Time Meddler out tomorrow on DVD.

Must... have... it!

Micromaster Erector baby! That's what this paint job is! And when I saw it... I had to have it.

I'm not much into random shelf-filling repaints but this one was aimed squarely at me.

The insanely bright yellow and white is just awesome!

TF Movie Mudflap is the 2088th Transformer that I've acquired.

He's fantastic! So much better than this shitty Voyager size

TF Animated Megatron is the 2087th Transformer that I've acquired.

I had to get him! His voyager sized figure is great... but he just needed to be much larger in scale as in the show.

TF Animated Bulkead is the 2086th Transformer that I've acquired.

I don't give a shit what trademark was lost... he'll always be Octane to me and not a deranged Rhinox!

Classics Octane is the 2085th Transformer that I've acquired.

So... I had a quandry...

Do I label the new guys "Universe 2.0" or just keep the fandom generated "Classics" as my line for these guys?

There was a time I'd have been extremely nitpicky about this sorta of gay ass shit.

Now?

Hell... I'm sticking with Classics!

My only regret here is that I should have waited for the Henkei version. Without the chrome, he's sorta dull. What TakaraTomy's doing really adds a little bit of pizazz to him.

Classics Prowl is the 2084th Transformer that I've acquired.

Classics Sunstreaker is the 2083rd Transformer that I've acquired.

When I think of Rattrap anymore, I don't think of his Beast Wars incarnations at all.

His Beast Machines model grew on me so much that's who I think of!

Robot Heroes Beast Wars Rattrap is the 2082nd Transformer that I've acquired.

Robot Heroes G1 Hound is the 2081st Transformer that I've acquired.

I've never been much of a fan of his. He's at least a little quirky on the new show.

Robot Heroes G1 Blitzwing is the 2080th Transformer that I've acquired.