April 21

DW: Ripper’s Curse

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welcome to the IDW DW Vol 2 ‘Ripper’s Curse’ with the eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. This story takes place at the 30th September 1888 and 9th November 1888. Like the name says it is about Jack the Ripper. The story goes over three chapters. What I like the most about this story are the drawings. I really like the style.

A typical Ripper case

Jack the ripper is a really interesting murder case. There are so many different takes on what happened and who he murder was. I think almost everyone had seen the movie with Johnny Depp ‘From Hell’ but this is just one of the many movies, series and books that had used the mysteries around Jack the Ripper. Now it is Doctor Who turn and sadly I am disappointed.

I don’t to say much about the story of this comic. Because everyone know the story. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive when the third victim was found. The Doctor actually find out really fast what is going on. There is no investigation to find out found is going on. They just throw a few names around. Also the dilemma of letting a person die to protect the bigger picture… to protect the web of time, doesn’t have a big role.

The don’t take time to explore this feeling of guilt or the consequences Amy’s interference had. No they just let it slide with sometime times just heals themself. I had hoped for something like in the episode ‘Rosa’. That you actually see and feel the emotions the regret, the curse of doing nothing. Sadly nothing of it comes here into play. The ripper case is closed.

Sadly for it wasn’t the best take on this story. I have seen a lot better versions. But did I told you how amazing the drawings are? They are really lovely.

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April 7

DW: Fugitive

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welcome to the IDW DW Vol 1 chapter ‘Fugitive’ with the tenth Doctor. He travels alone that means it is in his life between ‘Planet of the death‘ and ‘Waters of Mars‘. It is also following directly the end of ‘Silver Scream‘. Ahistory place the story around the year 2545.

Old enemies

The theme of the story is one that we have so often in tenth Doctor era. The power of the Time Lord, the consequences of his intervention. We meet old enemies of the Doctor. Krillitans, Draconions, Sotarans, Ogrons and Judoon. That is not enough the Shadow proclamation is bringing the Doctor before the court for his interventions. He is found guilty but someone is out to kill him before he lands in prison.

New friends

The Doctor finds himself on the run with a few races he never thought of fighting together. We see again that the Doctor has as any other person his prejudices. I love this story because the Doctor has to look at the consequence his intervention had on the people. Races that are warriors wanting peace. He finds unlikely friends. It is fun to watch these four race work together and learning at least the other – you can never be sure that the Doctor learnt his lesson.

Through all the adventures

These story drops names and stories everywhere. I smiled when the tenth Doctor talks about Charley Pollard but that was not the only thing that we have hints of. Do you know the feeling when you watch the first seasons of the New Doctor Who and the hint at every turn on the Classic Series? That is exactly what they do here. You have hints at stories like ‘Battlefield‘, ‘Paper Cuts‘ or the hint of the War Doctor. It is so much fun to search of all the hints of old or new stories of the Doctor.

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March 23

DW: Agent Provocateur

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welcome to the IDW DW mini-series #1 ‘Agent Provocateur’ with the tenth Doctor and Martha. While I love Manga I always had my problems with comics. One of the problems is the drawing. I would never say that this comics is bad drawing but it is not my style. I bought a bunch of comics a while ago. For just one story and I don’t even remember which story. Now that we all have a lot of time at hand. I start to read them.
‘Agent Provocateur’ plays in three different times and a lot of different places. We have the 1957, 1974 and 4.999.999.999.

Best milkshake

The Doctor is still trying to give Martha the best milk shake ever when they ran into a Sycorax who hunts for the last of their kinds. So the Doctor as the last of the Time Lords is obviously on the list. This is where the story starts.
Truth be told I couldn’t follow what this story has to do with rest of the story. We find out that on a few planets the whole population except one individual disappeared.

What is going on

My biggest problem with the story was that I didn’t get the jumps. From were the one chapter ended and the next began. Sometime it gets explained later and I think ahh.. that is why it starts there but other times I still don’t get it. Maybe it is just me or I was to sleepy to understand it. The story was not bad it remembered me a little of the end of season 4 with the aliment planets.
The interesting part is actually this group of creatures that are trying to manipulated the events around the Doctor.

The end of this story lets somethings open and I think at we will see a few of the characters again at some time. Maybe I even have some of them. I will see what I find in my bundle of comics.

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