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VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
Tony Lee (w) • Blair Shedd (a) • Paul Grist (c) “Final Sacrifice, Part 1 of 4: On a war-ravaged alien world, the Doctor and Emily fight to save Matthew from the Advocate, while avoiding a planetwide civil war and a space-and-time misplaced Edwardian Torchwood, still hunting the Doctor since The Time Machination! Everything leads to this point-but who will die? " Date Available: 07/21/2010 BONUS REVIEW by GARY OWENS  Most titles that I review aren’t ones I usually get. I only buy them (yes, with my own money. Luckily, my wife’s distracted) to read something new, and maybe write something about them here. I don’t have any real opinion on most beforehand, while others, like Doctor Who, I’ve already prejudged. Thus, a disclaimer: I’m a Star Wars/Star Trek fan, and I’ve avoided watching any full episodes of Who for decades. You heard right: decades. The show looks silly to me, and honestly, I can’t understand the appeal. But a comic book is different, I love comic books, so I tried this one. The media may be the issue, after all, and not the franchise. Saying that, it still surprised me when I found that I enjoyed this Doctor Who. This issue is a new “chapter” in the middle of an ongoing story, which finds Dr. Who in the future and distant star system for the purpose of…what? Even he’s not sure. Yeah, the planet is in the toilet (um, “turmoil”), and he has enemies aplenty, but what got me was the story-telling: well-paced, offered distinct characters, with an unpredictable but sensible plot. And more kudos for bringing readers like me up-to-speed without obnoxious monologues. Yes, all basic points to good comic stories, yet harder than it seems when the comic must be x-pages every month. Artwork was good, too. So for an admittedly non-Who person, I give this one a thumbs up. Don’t ask me to see an actual TV episode, but I would buy the next issue, and that’s a start. I give it 8 out of 10 Grahams VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
Tony Lee (w) • Blair Shedd (a) • Paul Grist (c) “Final Sacrifice, Part 1 of 4: On a war-ravaged alien world, the Doctor and Emily fight to save Matthew from the Advocate, while avoiding a planetwide civil war and a space-and-time misplaced Edwardian Torchwood, still hunting the Doctor since The Time Machination! Everything leads to this point-but who will die? " Date Available: 07/21/2010 BONUS REVIEW by GARY OWENS Most titles that I review aren’t ones I usually get. I only buy them (yes, with my own money. Luckily, my wife’s distracted) to read something new, and maybe write something about them here. I don’t have any real opinion on most beforehand, while others, like Doctor Who, I’ve already prejudged. Thus, a disclaimer: I’m a Star Wars/Star Trek fan, and I’ve avoided watching any full episodes of Who for decades. You heard right: decades. The show looks silly to me, and honestly, I can’t understand the appeal. But a comic book is different, I love comic books, so I tried this one. The media may be the issue, after all, and not the franchise. Saying that, it still surprised me when I found that I enjoyed this Doctor Who. This issue is a new “chapter” in the middle of an ongoing story, which finds Dr. Who in the future and distant star system for the purpose of…what? Even he’s not sure. Yeah, the planet is in the toilet (um, “turmoil”), and he has enemies aplenty, but what got me was the story-telling: well-paced, offered distinct characters, with an unpredictable but sensible plot. And more kudos for bringing readers like me up-to-speed without obnoxious monologues. Yes, all basic points to good comic stories, yet harder than it seems when the comic must be x-pages every month. Artwork was good, too. So for an admittedly non-Who person, I give this one a thumbs up. Don’t ask me to see an actual TV episode, but I would buy the next issue, and that’s a start. I give it 8 out of 10 Grahams |
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