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Doctor Ood - A Look Back and Forwards

4/27/2014

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The moment I had been waiting for finally arrived! Doctor Ood costume was ready to go and for two of the four days of Comic Expo I wandered around to see my favourite celebrities and have some spontaneous pictures taken of me... including a request to dance...

The reason for rushing the costume together in the first place was for the unexpected guest star appearance of Matt Smith at this year's expo, and after waiting two and a half hours for him in our pre-paid ticket line-up, having gone in an hour early and still being fairly near the back of the line, we were told that the Doctor would still be delayed and that we'd have to make a decision. Well, Matt and I had pre-paid tickets to the Middle Earth Exposed event and took up the offer to try again the next day. Glad we made that decision because that Spotlight was the highlight of the whole weekend! So many giddy moments of pure joy! I heart me some dwarves seriously badly.

...Anyways, finally got into another Doctor line-up the next day, but poor Mr. Smith had to rocket through autographs like the bullet train, and thus he barely even looked up at his loyal fans as he signed away. Even with the glorious creature before him that is Doctor Ood, he just signed and pushed the photo forward... 

... then he looked up. It was a very quick double-take, but he finally saw me. "Ood Baker. Nice. I like it." Thank you, Doctor. I could go into a sigh-filled digression of how I'm not "Ood Baker" because Doctor Ood carries iconic fragments from other Doctors, including the Tennant overcoat, and Smith's own sonic screwdriver, but I won't be that greedy. Among the crowds of people who "OOOO"'ed at the Ood, there were a few let downs, such as: "Doctor Cthulhu!" and "It's just an Ood in a cowboy hat." 

Considering we haven't released our webseries yet, I think that the Doctor Ood launch went well. Now we just need the actual comic strips and then we can move on to fun things like collector buttons! I am determined to have something that informs the world that I am a "Friend of the Ood" on a quest to "Free the Ood". Which reminds me; I was asked why Doctor Ood has a hind brain instead of a translator. Matthew and I made a very firm decision that Doctor Ood would be a free Ood. We want to proudly state in all of our Doctor Ood endeavours that "No Ood were harmed in the making of this series". Yes, event cartooned characters deserve to be preserved. 

Doctor Ood will probably be back on the shelf until next Expo. Hopefully we'll get some of the series out between now and then. I get the easy part. I just write the words, and with a script, it's very few words. So I will have to join the rest of the patient public while the artist does his thing in those brief few minutes he has within his busy schedule. Luckily, I think we've got all of the time in the world before the BBC decides to launch their own Doctor Ood spin-off, so this world will be ours and waiting for us as long as it needs to. 

... I do have an unnatural love for the Ood, my goodness...

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