Advanced Squad Leader's long-time custodians, Multi-Man Publishing, have in recent years come very close to releasing their flagship product's support magazine, the ASL Journal, on a near-annual basis...

After sixteen installments, it might not be breaking news that a fresh issue of the ASL Journal, that irregularly published compendium of articles, news, and scenarios and maps for everyone's favorite...

It's alive. It's alive. It's alive! How do you re-introduce a legend? Doctor Who's cancellation in 1989 represents the end of twenty-six years of (mostly) continuous presence in the cultural landscape...

After a brief—ok, fine, two year—hiatus, the In Scale series of scale model builds returns with a 1/48 scale Arma Hobby Hawker Sea Hurricane Mk. IIc, wearing the overall-white livery of NF672/7K, the ...

Much as William Hartnell bears the mantle, and the burden, of being the First Doctor, Sylvester McCoy wears the title of the Last Doctor. With hindsight, we know that Doctor Who eventually returns, in...

Fresh—well, semi-fresh—from the fine fellows at Multi-Man Publishing, a trio of Action Packs, numbers 20, 21, and 22, for Advanced Squad Leader, everyone's favorite tactical combat simulation, to fill...

But this is the end, Doctor. It is a sad irony, or perhaps even an overt statement of defiance, that Doctor Who's final story, by Rona Munro, bears the title "Survival" (Story Production Code 7P). And...

Wargaming boasts a few eternal chestnuts, conflicts and battles that publishers, designers, and, it must be said, gamers, just can't get enough of: Waterloo, Gettysburg, Stalingrad, the Bulge, and, of...

Behold, the end of the war. For all the historical periods Doctor Who has mined over the course of a quarter century, the series waits until the bitter end to visit the 1940s, World War II in particul...

My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie. Doctor Who under producer John Nathan-Turner draws heavily on the concept of the Doctor's long life,...

You know, I think I'm rather enjoying this. Having already shown a deft hand at nostalgia in "Remembrance of the Daleks," Ben Aaronovitch opens Doctor Who's final season with "Battlefield" (Story Prod...

We want more. Doctor Who, under producer John Nathan-Turner and script editor Andrew Cartmel, can scarcely be accused of false modesty. Case in point, the decision to end Season Twenty-Five with Steph...

This is no madness. 'Tis England. For all of producer John Nathan-Turner's efforts to continually reinvent Doctor Who, he always understands the value of returning to what works, as evidenced by Kevin...

A new historical module for Advanced Squad Leader, everyone’s favorite tactical simulation of World War II combat, typically lands with a thud, representing pounds of paper and cardboard that…

Is any of this important, Doctor? World building can be tricky business, particularly on Doctor Who. Too much exposition, often from a writer in love with his or her creation, bogs down proceedings…

This is the real Fifties. For a series regarded as quintessentially British, very few moments on Doctor Who stand out as purely—which is to say, peculiarly—rooted in the British experie…

Build high for happiness. As befits a science fiction show, Doctor Who adorns its plots with scientific trappings, drawing on physics and chemistry and applied mathematics, both fanciful and real, …

Where am I? Who am I? And who are you? As Season Twenty-Four of Doctor Who kicks off, we might as well be watching a different show entirely. Only nine months separate the end of the season-long st…

There’s a tendency to dismiss Colin Baker as the “other” Baker to have been the Doctor, the one without the scarf, the one in a clown’s outfit. Such simplistic assessments s…

Oh, no! Now I really am finished. It all comes down to this. After twelve episodes, spanning nearly three full months, “The Trial of a Time Lord” finally concludes with “The Ultim…

Is it going to be the Doctor’s defence that he improves? Doctor Who seldom actually toys with temporality itself, treating time, broadly, as a setting rather than a concept or plot device to …

Not unlike some hackneyed box of chocolates, one never knows quite what will appear in an issue of Multi-Man Publishing’s ASL Journal, that irregularly released magazine-and-scenario product …

I endeavour to maintain a certain continuity. Continuity stands as the primary problem with Doctor Who by its twenty-third season. Long-time producer John Nathan-Turner and equally long-serving scr…

I was beginning to fear you had lost yourself. Season Twenty-three almost wasn’t to be. In February, 1985, midway through the airing of Season Twenty-two, news broke that the BBC had pulled t…