Hello! Okay. Ooh. New teeth. And hair. Great hair. That’s weird. So, where was I? Just like the Doctor, the editors of DWM are also prone to regenerate from time to time. Unlike the various incarnations of the Doctor, I doubt many readers have their own personal favourite editors. Let’s face it, they’ve all been pretty great. Right from Dez Skinn in that very first issue of Doctor Who Weekly, (which I remember queuing for in Leeds back in October 1979, when Tom Baker dropped into the newsagents) through Gary Russell, Gary Gillatt, the ever-suave Alan Barnes, Tom Spilsbury and the unflappably ageless Marcus Hearn. I’ve missed out plenty of them too, but only due to the limited space allowed for my first missive to you all, and I would much sooner blather on about myself rather than my past selves, no matter how great they were.
In a recent issue of DWM Russell T Davies revealed how he pictured the editor of this magazine puffing on a pipe while sitting back in his wing-backed chair. I have yet to get my hands on Marcus’ disreputable clay pipe, but maybe one day. No, I’m more your dashing, swashbuckling type of editor, the type who when he isn’t proof-reading articles about the Whoniverse, is at his happiest with his trusty epee in hand, shouting ‘En garde’ at our deputy editor, the unflappable Peter Ware.