Customer Reviews

- obverse books - 20/06/2010 23:25:33
the first thing you notice when you get your copy of shooty dog thing in the post is just how cool the cover is. with the front door panels (including the lights through the window slat) painted on a brick wall above double yellow lines and the wonderfully inclusive tag ‘by paul castle and friends’, it’s clear from the start that if nothing else this is a book into which a lot of care and attention has been poured. which is as it should be. for all the nostalgic reminisces of old time fans, few fanzines in days of old approached the quality of the original editions of “shooty dog thing” from which this book is culled. partially this is down to technological advances – laying out a fanzine as a pdf on a computer is a damn sight easier than typing out long articles and sticking drawings in place with glue before shoving the whole thing under a hot photocopier! but there’s more to it than that, i think.the range of articles in the book demonstrate two things. first, that the return of the series to television screens was more than a simple fillip to the fan world, it was an absolutely vital regeneration. at the most basic level, there’s obviously articles about the rtd years, providing much needed new stuff to talk about. but even those entries which are focused on the old series feel informed by the new, with original points of comparison and fresh angles from which to re-assess the, ahem, ‘classic’ series. secondly (and more interestingly to me, frankly) s