The Blogs of Doom

The Blogs of Doom was the title for a series of prose vignettes by Jonathan Morris which appeared in Doctor Who Magazine from 2017 to 2021. Similar to the earlier Brief Encounter series, it used its short format to give the spotlight to a variety of comparatively obscure characters.
== Overview ==
The premise of each entry of The Blogs of Doom was described as "Sneaky peeks into the secret diaries of characters in the Doctor's orbit…". This meant that all short stories, which often recorded events in the life of the character immediately leading up to their appearance in a Doctor Who television story, were told in first-person perspective, and often in an epistolary style — a stylistic feature previously used by some Brief Encounters.
The entries, all of which featured original illustrations by Ben Morris, were credited as being "as told to" Jonathan Morris. They were unafraid to occasionally dip over into comedy, often turning the viewer's understanding of certain elements of the original TV stories on its head. A sense of continuity in a wider, connected Doctor Who universe was achieved by having characters from shared time periods comment on the events of other TV stories set in the same time and place: for example, in The Ghoul Patsy from The Talons of Weng-Chiang mentions hearing tell of the Whisper Men and the Crimson Horror.
== List of stories ==
# 	Issue	Full illustration	Title 	Featuring
1 	519 	 	Jorj 	Jorj from World Enough and Time
2 	520 	 	Ian the Elf 	Ian, Santa Claus and Shona McCullough from Last Christmas
3 	521 	 	The Veil 	The Veil from Heaven Sent
4 	522 	 	The Ghoul 	Patsy from The Talons of Weng-Chiang
5 	523 	 	Colin 	Colin Redmayne from The Enemy of the World
6 	524 	 	Nerys 	Nerys from The Runaway Bride
7 	525 	 	Nilson 	Nilson from Warriors of the Deep
8 	526 	 	Sevrin 	Sevrin from Genesis of the Daleks
9 	527 	 	Robinson 	Robinson from Invasion of the Dinosaurs
10	528 	 	Scaroth 	Scaroth from City of Death
11	529 	 	Acting Captain Zachary Cross Flane	Zachary Cross Flane from The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit
12	530 	 	The Monks 	The Monks from Extremis / The Pyramid at the End of the World / The Lie of the Land
13	531 	 	Dr Malcolm Taylor 	Malcolm Taylor from Planet of the Dead
14	532 	 	Panna 	 Panna from Kinda
15	533 	 	Charles Dickens 	Charles Dickens from The Unquiet Dead
16	534 	 	Dortmun 	Dortmun from The Dalek Invasion of Earth
17	535 	 	Meglos 	Meglos from Meglos
18	536 	 	Medok 	Medok from The Macra Terror
19	537 	 	Sentreal 	Sentreal from Mission to the Unknown
20	538 	 	Lady Peinforte 	Peinforte from Silver Nemesis
21	539 	 	Doctor Fendelman 	Fendelman from Image of the Fendahl
22	540 	 	Sam Seeley 	Sam Seeley from Spearhead from Space
23	541 	 	Mehendri Solon 	Mehendri Solon from The Brain of Morbius
24	542 	 	The Inquisitor 	Darkel from The Trial of a Time Lord
25	543 	 	Commander Fabian 	Fabian and Elena from The Twin Dilemma
26	545 	 	Dalek Caan 	Dalek Caan from The Stolen Earth / Journey's End
27	547 	 	Bert the Landlord 	Bert from The Dæmons
28	548 	 	Harry Sullivan 	 Harry Sullivan from Revenge of the Cybermen
29	549 	 	Prisoner Zero 	Prisoner Zero from The Eleventh Hour
30	550 	 	Hieronymous 	Hieronymous from The Masque of Mandragora
31	551 	 	Doris Griffiths 	Doris Griffiths from The Green Death
32	 552 	 	Tlotoxl 	Tlotoxl from The Aztecs
33	553 	 	Larry Nightingale 	Larry Nightingale from Blink
34	554 	 	Herbert George Wells 	H. G. Wells from Timelash
35	555 	 	The Investigator 	The Investigator from The Mutants
36	556 	 	Harold Chorley 	Harold Chorley from The Web of Fear
37	557 	 	Dr Black 	Henry Black from Vincent and the Doctor
38	558 	 	Light 	Light from Ghost Light
39	560 	 	Seb 	Seb from Dark Water / Death in Heaven
40	561 	 	Poul 	Poul from The Robots of Death
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