Continuing my Doctor Who comic read courtesy of Humble Bundle…
This one picks up shortly after the last volume Fugitive as the Doctor is trying to breaContinuing my Doctor Who comic read courtesy of Humble Bundle…
This one picks up shortly after the last volume Fugitive as the Doctor is trying to break in a couple of new companions but before they even get the wardrobe issues sorted out the TARDIS collides and merges with another spaceship. This rolls into a second adventure in which the Doctor and his new pals return to Earth where he meets up with his old friend Martha and tries to stop an alien invasion.
I’m rating them both three stars, but I enjoyed the first collection more than this one. That’s mainly because the last one brought some of the David Tennant zest to the Doctor, but in this one he kinda comes across as an overbearing jerk who spends the entire book lecturing everyone about their shortcomings while ignoring his own. That’s an element of the Doctor’s shtick sometimes, but it needs some of the mad-scientist/wild-adventurer/smart-ass to balance it out. Frankly, I was rooting for Martha to bust him in the mouth a couple of times.
There’s an interesting subplot with an old enemy of the Doctor trying to turn one of his new companions against him by making it look like the Doctor is the bad guy here. There’s just enough truth in the lies to play on the idea that the modern series has gone to several times about how the Doctor is seen as one of the great villains of history by some of the races he’s interacted with.
Also, there’s a pretty significant mention and explanation of The Moment, the weapon that the Doctor used to end the Time War, but I thought that wasn’t named until several years after this was published in The Day of the Doctor 50th anniversary special? Was this where the concept was introduced? Whovians, help me out here!
It’s a decent Doctor Who adventure, but not as fun as the previous collection in this comic series. There are some loose ends that will hopefully turn into intriguing plots in the subsequent volumes....more
I lost my taste for comic tie-ins to movies and TV shows somewhere along the life journey that has left me the cheerful and upbeat person you know herI lost my taste for comic tie-ins to movies and TV shows somewhere along the life journey that has left me the cheerful and upbeat person you know here on Goodreads. However, I’ve been seriously craving some Doctor Who while waiting for Peter Capaldi to make his debut so when my wife came across a great deal on Humble Bundle for a large pack of digital Doctor Who comics from IDW it seemed worth a look. Plus, part of the proceeds go to charity. And I just like saying ‘Humble Bundle’. Try it. You’ll see. It’s fun, right?
Anyhow, this collection features the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) in the time period when he was traveling without a companion shortly before the end of his tenure. In the first of two stories, the Doctor is in Hollywood during in the 1920s where he meets famous actor Archie Maplin (Get it?) and as usual there are aliens up to shenanigans. In the second, the Doctor is captured and put on trial by the Shadow Proclamation for breaking numerous laws about interfering with timelines that were established by the Time Lords. Not surprisingly, there are also alien shenanigans in that one too.
Overall, the comics do a nice job of feeling like they could be episodes of Doctor Who, and you can almost hear Tennant doing some of the dialogue in the frantic speed-freak way he did so well when called for. I enjoyed the smaller scale Hollywood story more than the big interstellar space one for it’s clever integration of silent movie style gags and segments. Plus, there was a different artist for each, and I preferred the style in that one.
Nothing fantastic or mind blowing, but it was a couple of solid and entertaining stories that made me a little nostalgic for the 10th Doctor even though the 11th remains my favorite. This first collection makes me think that I’m going to get more than my money’s worth out of the rest of the Humble Bundle. (It’s even fun to type!)
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