User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-31010985-20191126091008

Right, so I've gotten access to the DWM issues in question and can confirm The Dalek Tapes premise is kept throughout. First off, I'll cover the easier question of how to cover The Dalek Tapes as a story. I think The Dalek Tapes (comic story) is the way to go. Firstly, I don't know if it's just me that thinks this but when compared to the narrations mid-story in the original editions the new narration feels like it has a very documentary-style vibe to it with a lot of happening in the past tense rather than the present. For example, the start of the opening caption of what would be Genesis of Evil Part Two states: "The warlike nature of the Daleks had led to the near destruction of their race and planet. The devastation had enveloped the whole world of Skaro." Compared to the original: "For two years nothing stirred on Skaro, planet of the Daleks..."

The second and most obvious reason is the last panel of Genesis of Evil is new and does not appear in the original. The panel to the right depicting Skaro appears after the iconic conclusion of the original edition in which the machine Dalek was revealed that read "Skaro was not a dead world!"

The point about the narrator is interesting. After reading the stories I think creating Narrator (The Dalek Tapes) would be a good idea. Sentences like "In the first two tapes the Daleks became mutated and inhabited their metal shells", "And thus ends the first of the Dalek Tapes", and "And so ends tape seven" all seem to indicate that an individual is recording himself recounting the stories or examining the content of the tapes and then the readers of DWM are lucky enough to get some visuals with it in the form of comics. The narrator also uses pronouns to give themselves a voice in sentences like "We must now look at tape 6", "Now we can follow the story as it unfolds" and "The next tape tells us of the Dalek attempts to rebuild their civilisation".

As such, instead of: According to one account, the Daleks first came into being without Davros's influence from a race of blue humanoids; (COMIC: Genesis of Evil) the Doctor once found old, decayed records of the Daleks' history on a twilight world, which were consistent with this version of events. (COMIC: The Dalek Tapes) It would be something like: An individual once recounted or found evidence that indicated the Daleks were created as a result of a similar catastrophe but without Davros's influence (COMIC: The Dalek Tapes) from a race of blue humanoids. (COMIC: Genesis of Evil) The Doctor discovered these tapes many years later in an ancient library on a twilight world. (COMIC: The Dalek Tapes)

For other articles like Drenz or Amaryll where the info presented doesn't conflict as much we could preface them with something like "According to the Dalek Tapes, (COMIC: The Dalek Tapes)" and then more fully explain the situation on that article.