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Well this turned out to be a pleasant nostalgia trip.This collection covers the Doctor Who Magazine strips in 1996 and 1997, just after the TV movie came out and Paul McGann was the Eighth Doctor. This was prime time in my DWM collecting and reading, so I had pleasant memories of these stories. But sometimes the pleasant memories of a 15 year old uber fan are somewhat dodgy. What may have seemed great was really naff. Not in this case at all.These stories follow on from previous DWM comic storie...
I'd heard that the eighth doctor comics had really cool companions so when I found this one cheap at Forbidden Planet I thought I'd give it a try. As a comic I'd have to say it was a bit disappointing. The art style, though black and white, was terribly bland and the same level as most superhero comics. The storylines for the most part were a little dull, the fact that they had to fit into a few pages of the magazine meant that they were very bitty and jumpy. I liked quite a few of the far futur...
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I bought this to follow up my read of the recently released (and rather disappointing) 'Ground Zero', mainly to check that my memory wasn't playing tricks and that the eighth Doctor comic strips which followed really are as brilliant as I recall.I remembered correctly: this is leagues ahead of the seventh Doctor's final graphic outing. The eighth Doctor instantly and effortlessly steps into the format a fully formed, larger-than-life character, entirely suited to the wit and weirdness of the sto...
I bought this from my friends vintage shop.A collection of early 8th doctor adventures, some are quite good, exciting and thriving on the ability to not be tied down to a limited budget on terms of visual spectacle.
This book collects the first two years of Eighth Doctor Comic strips for Doctor Who Magazine and introduces Izzy Sinclair.Overall, what does make the Strips work is that there is a lot of continuity, in fact much more than in the modern Doctor Who Magazine Comic strips I've read. At this point, in terms of creating the Doctor, the magazine had little direction other than the TV Movie as this portrayal came before even the novels.The best stories in the book are, "Fire and Brimstone" featuring th...
Sublime. This first volume of DWM comic strips with the Eighth Doctor is fantastic, and features battles with the Celestial Toymaker and the Daleks, plus a return to Gallifrey. The underlying plot elements began in the first story really pay-off by the end of this collection, and leave you wanting more. And what can I say about the Doctor's new companion, Izzy? Well she is fantastic (as the 9th Doctor would say) and a worthy fellow traveller in time and space for the Doctor.
The first volume of the eighth doctor comics gets off to a cracking start. Good artwork and well written stories combined with the return of old villains like the celestial toymaker and the daleks make this a great opening for a doctor who at the time had only one TV appearance to base his adventures on. The writers have more freedom in this era than in any other and it makes for some excellent stories over the four volumes of his era.
The first few stories in this collection were mediocre and the problems were too easily resolved. However, I did like how each story led into the next and referenced the events before it; it was like watching a well connected season of the TV show. I also loved the characters and companions that helped the doctor: the independent and clever Izzy, the brazen Fey, and Shayde who is an artificial being created as a servant for Rassilon. The story Wormwood was incredible. Set on the planet of Gallif...
You can tell that people who made these comics had fun doing so and tried their best. There are some really interesting ideas in here and they are executed with a lot of ambition. But they are honestly executed very poorly, the writers bit off more than they could chew and stumbled along the way, usually a story starts of interesting, but then keeps piling up things that just make no sense either to progress the plot or as an attempt to be weird in an enjoyable way. I wasn't impressed with the a...
The first Eighth Doctor comic strips came out in advance of the first Eighth Doctor books, so they went their own path with their own companion and their own adventures.End Game (244-247). A very nice return to Stockbridge and a very nice return of the Celestial Toymaker. The Eighth Doctor is clearly energetic and larger-than-life, but we get very little feel for him other than that ... and new companion Izzy comes across much the same. (And she's adopted, eh? There's no chance that'll come up s...