With the mastermind behind the kidnapping of each Doctor’s companions revealed, this issue – featuring Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor – wastes no time getting underway and putting the Doctor on the back foot.

The crossover element finally becomes less of a shoehorned in, background element and instead takes the entire focus of this issue, with the Doctor trying to work out how, where and when he can track down the shadowy kidnapper.

There’s a great, extended sequence where the two main, opposing characters face off – but another villain’s presence seems entirely superfluous; just there for shock value at this point, it seems.

Despite this, I enjoyed this penultimate issue; despite a few shortcomings, this 50th anniversary crossover – which features a new Doctor every issue, in order from the First to the Eleventh – has been a good read overall.

As Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor had yet to make his first full appearance when this series was originally published, the final issue is instead very likely to be a multi-Doctor story, as is reasonably traditional with Doctor Who anniversaries.

This issue certainly shows promising signs that there’ll be a satisfying conclusion to the overall story; let’s hope it gets there.

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