I guess it is, as you say, "easy to forget". But I do remember actively listening out for those "howls of outrage" locally and on Outpost Gallifrey (as it was back then) for them regarding RTD's past work. I must have missed them. I do remember a lot of very positive comments about his appointment though, both on the strength of his previous _DW_ work (the novel _Damaged Goods_) and especially on the success of _QAF_. The main local fanzine _Time-Space Visualiser_ ran a couple of articles championing the _Who_ content and references in _QAF_, in fact. It's possible that after _The Second Coming_ there might have been some anxious fans, perhaps, going by its religious angle. And I do agree about the concerns over whether the show would have legs to the _Phantom Menace_ generation, as one magazine put it.

But the overall impression I got from online fandom was that RTD would be a pretty safe pair of hands.

And Peter Adamson - beautiful drawings - you're using oil pastel? Crayon? Whatever, your work is wonderful, and will get a whole lot of wider exposure. Cheers!

It's watercolour, with a secret ingredient! Not my ideal medium, but one I thought quite apt.

Thanks again, Islander!

Hi everyone, Peter the artist here.

Just popping in to offer my sincere thanks for all the really nice things that have been said so far about our book. It was a big chunk out of my home time and it's great to see such positive feedback.

I'm looking forward to whatever David's got in store for me next (and my work's really not that Gothic, honest!)

Re: A Whole Otter Love

David: A terrible thing, I know, but I can't help thinking what the post-marriage sex life of Albert the Otter and the princess must have been like ;-)

David never gave me a brief, so the camera quietly panned away after the second to last page. And I'm very grateful for that!