I'm finding it hard to justify being a subscriber. I'll give it a few months.

Things like cosplay tips and novelisations don't interest me, whatsoever.

When the show is on the air, the magazines cover a lot of interest, but when the show is off the air, some magazines don't always appeal. Not blaming the magazine - it's very well produced - but maybe I have outgrown it.

Of course, if I cancel the subscription, you can bet that subsequent issues will be very appealing. Always happens, eh?

And if I did that, it'd leave funds free for other things. 

DWM did a great special devoted to the 1970s last year. If I cancel, I can at least pick up issues that may be of interest.

The cosplay tips in this issue, which are of no use to me, are for the orange spacesuit that both Tennant and Capaldi have worn.

I cancelled, anyway. I mean, I accept when something isn't for me. Cosplay involves talent, but articles about making Time Lord collars is of no interest to me. And I have, for some reason, zero interest in Big Finish. 

What I'll do is pick up a special issue now and again (the 70s issue was very good), but I'm done.

I dropped STAR TREK MAGAZINE for a similar reason (although I was dismayed at how, like comics, they seemed to be "growing roses", e.g. no issues were released between October 2015 and April 2016). That's been filler in recent months.

I wish the publications luck, but it was long past the time to cancel my subscription for DWM. 

I've always found that strange too. (Is the same as the IDW run?) 

I shall buy individual themed issues if I feel they may have enough of interest, but paying an annual fee for something I am not interested in seems silly.

I mean, I have zero interest in the Big Finish audio adventures (for whatever reason, they have never appealed to me) or cosplay. Yet a good proportion of reviews now are Big Finish CDs. Cosplay looks like it could be a regular feature.

All the classic stuff I am interested in has probably been covered at some point, there is truly little left to say about vintage Dalek stories, Tom Baker's tenure, etc. 

I think I will do that with other things in my life. 

When it's good, it's actually compliments televised Doctor Who and sometimes exceeds it.   The trick is finding the diamond in the muck.

I thought DMM was a waste of money 25 years ago based on content/page count radio -- and that was when there was some actual value to the magazine during the wilderness years.   The comic strips were above average and they supported the Virgin book line by publishing exclusive prologues or codas to the novels.  

I can't imagine what sort of dreck they trot out to fill up space and justify the asking price now.   Cosplay tips?  A character's favorite recipes?  I'm surprised it wasn't one of the first narrow-genre physical magazines to get axed once online content took over, to be honest.

edit: hahaha I actually wrote the above rant before I even saw that cover (I usually scroll down to see the more recent comments first).   

Cosplay tips it is then.

And really, feature articles with the guy who made a living taking the piss out of the program (Culshaw) is pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel.

I realise something like cosplay tips are magic for those interested in cosplay. But then I think about Scott's comment pertaining to the Titan comics. I don't know why I didn't think about it before, but it's a major omission.

Part of me wonders if Panini don't want to acknowledge Titan as they are competition to their own strip. It does seem a big omission. Panini do a strip in each DWM, which are then collected into trades. Unless there is another reason for lack of acknowledgement, it seems an omission. 

STAR TREK MAGAZINE is scraping the bottom of the barrel nowadays, too. I half expect to pick up an issue and see articles on someone who brews "Romulan ale" at home or perhaps an article on Star Trek car stickers!