writer: cavan scott
artist(s): adriana melo
originally published: 2016
doctor: ninth
companion(s): rose tyler, jack harkness
issues: 3
A stunning new clue to Captain Jack Harkness's missing memories and mysterious past is uncovered! The thrilling race is on for Rose, Captain Jack and the Doctor to escape the clutches of a familiar foe...and a whole planet of the Doctor's biggest fans?!
finally, a nice art style! the dynamic shapes and lines already make it more immersive, and if you add the familiarity of the main foes - which are revealed at the end of the first issue - you get a really fun time. the character interactions are fun and there's some nice moments which highlight rose's qualities and skills.
after receiving a transmission that shows a recording of jack from the years that got wiped from his memory,
the tardis team goes to gharusa prime. here, a giant picture of the doctor is projected onto a building, and a fangirl of this version of the doctor
notices the real one,
so she delivers exposition about how "the doctor" here is a celebrity, with his own book and tv show. a bunch of particularly aggressive "chumblies" (which aren't actually chumblies) attack the group, but
the celebrity doctor swoops in on a hovercar to save the day. the real doctor jumps onto the vehicle, but the celebrity doctor drops mines onto the "chumblies" and manages to make him lose his grip, making him fall in jack's arms.
after the celebrity doctor drives away, a crowd of admirers quickly gathers around jack and the doctor, who are soon arrested for alleged identity theft.
rose, who had been separated from her friends by the crowd, sneaks into the bookshop where the celebrity doctor's book signings will take place by posing as a journalist (lois lane.. nice).
she finds a glowing device on a table, but before she can do anything the celebrity doctor walks in and sees through her psychic paper, so he decides to reveal himself as a slitheen.
the slitheen attacks rose, but a the arrival of a ship belonging to an enemy family of raxacoricofallapatorians prompts her to just knock her out with her poisonous breath.
meanwhile, the doctor is being interrogated, and the officer conducting the interview reveals that she knows that the chumblies are fake.
while the slitheen makes a deal with the other family, the jinglatheen, the officer with the doctor tells him about her suspicions arounf the fake doctor. after jack bursts into the room, having already freed himself, they run outside and follow the traces left by the hovercar, which leads them to the slitheen's secret base. a slitheen posing as the doctor's assistant attacks them, but a blast from the officer's gun tears her skin suit, killing her in the process.
they find out through the slitheen's computers that the aliens have managed to find a way to make synthetic suits, and they've acquired the doctor's image through footage recorded in the previous story.
rose, as they discover, is being taken to the raxas alliance. what they don't know is that she's forced to help the slitheen by an explosive devices implanted under her skin.
the doctor erases any trace of his lookalike from the galactic net and blows up the base.
the slitheen tries to make a speech, but she's interrupted by rose, who exposes her. the aliens turn on them, and they end up escaping through a jungle. acid rain starts pouring, just enough to hurt the slitheen - and kill the jinglatheen which were chasing them -, as the doctor explains when he and jack find them, wearing slitheen suits to conceal themselves. they hide the slitheen under the slitheen suits and run towards the tardis.
the slitheen takes down an attacker with a poison dart, and they all steal the reptile he'd been riding and make it to the tardis. here, they go to the control station of the jungle nd find out that the acid rain had been orchestrated by a jinglatheen, so they let the slitheen send a message to expose the murders.
the jinglatheen gets arrested and the slitheen slips away, unnoticed.
writer: cavan scott
artist(s): cris bolson, adriana melo
originally published: 2016
doctor: ninth
companion(s): rose tyler, jack harkness, mickey smith
issues: 2
The Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack, bouncing back from their most recent adventure with a destructive doppelgänger, run into a most unexpected face! As the Doctor struggles to keep Rose apart from an element of her future she cannot know, Jack discovers another twist on his missing past that complicates his present!
mickey!! and martha!! it's nice seeing them again after leaving them in the fourth series of the show!
the story itself is pretty short, but it's pretty fun. there's a lot of superhero vibes, as it seems to use the tropes of the genre and take it in a different direction around the mid point of the story. the best part, however, is obviously the concept of a future mickey and martha meeting a past doctor. it doesn't explore it that much because of the lack of time, but it is interesting nonetheless.
writer: cavan scott
artist(s): adriana melo
originally published: 2016
doctor: ninth
companion(s): rose tyler, jack harkness
issues: 3
Welcome back to the 70s (or is it the 80s?)! The Doctor becomes entangled once more with the forces of UNIT when a cache of potentially devastating top secret material is leaked to the media. But does the UNIT whistleblower have a point? Alien invasion and internecine intrigue combine in an explosive new story!
after seeing mickey, it's time for the doctor to visit some other old friends. wanting to save a character from the previous story, the tardis team takes him to the unit base. after that, it's a nice mix of nostalgia and kaiju, with just a hint of x-men. i don't have much else to say for now, but it's a pretty good story, perhaps better than the previous one also because of the extra issue
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