The Twelfth Doctor’s first year is ending in this last collection. What did you think?
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Unearthly things is my favourite of these three. I like the historical setting, and it’s well executed imo. The Hyperion empire is good concept and especially art-wise, but it feels a little too big for me? I feel like too much of the earth gets destroyed and these villains worked better as a threat. It’s got great side characters though. Relative dimensions was a good little adventure.
Solid story that I could definitely see being at home on screen, gave me Tooth and Claw or Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror vibes in terms of being a fairly standard but still fun celebrity historical, just a shame it’s as short as it is
Interesting that somewhere in the middle of this comic they flip from mid season 8, to mid season 9 (given Danny was mentioned before, and now The Doctor is taking up the mantle of president of earth again after Death in Heaven). Not sure why Kate’s drawn with grey hair, that was a bit weird. Overall I quite liked this, it felt like a good climax for 12’s first year, and… wait there’s one more? Okay then? But yeah, the Hyperion are a fun returning villain, one that you could imagine on the show, but probably wouldn’t get for budget reasons. I liked the characters in this as well, and the ending worked really nicely for me.
I do agree that the constant end of the world stakes do feel not great when we’re getting them so often, but still very fun
Now that was fun, short but sweet but it really works. Bit out of place to be reading this in August, but I could see myself coming back to it for Christmas
Fun characterization for The Toymaker and I like that take on The Doctor’s relationship with him.
Also feeds even more into my reading of 12 as ‘The Endgame Doctor’, a lot of his stories involve him reconciling with his oldest enemies or wrapping up plotlines (until they inevitably come back of course), but yeah, I like how they do that with The Toymaker here.
I actually felt that this didn’t suffer too much from being a single-issue story - it was paced well & the main characters were developed enough.
Nothing especially original here, and the “reveal” of the main character’s identity at the end was pretty obvious from the start, but I still enjoyed it and it felt like it could have been a TV episode.
I read this anthology a while ago, but I will try to remember how I felt.
Unearthly Things
I thought that the premise of the celebrity historical was interesting. It did feel a little bit like a nineteenth century novel, seeming to take cues from contemporaries of Bronte like Edgar Allan Poe.
Hyperion Empire
I thought that the destruction of the ISS was an effective device to start the story. I suppose it did feel a little bit too much like “Fractures” at points. Interesting that the comics want to develop recurring villains.
Relative Dimensions
This story seemed fun. I thought it was interesting how Susan was used as a lure. The art in this seemed clever and interesting. A bit of lighthearted holiday revelry.
Here are two quotes that I added from “Unearthly Things.” A friendly reminder to feel free to add your own quotes that you like from the comics.
