If you’re reading this on any other site than midlifegamergeek.com (the link to which may be broken, removed or mangled by an unthinking, unfeeling, but unfortunately persistent bot), then you’ve managed to stumble upon a modern form of weird plagiarism, where certain words are changed to avoid the impression of outright, wholesale theft, but it’s clear from everything in the title, to the article itself and the image(s), that it’s the work of someone else entirely.

I know that’s a bit of a weird tangent to open a review of a 2020 Doctor Who comic on, but I needed to get that off my chest, and I’m also planning on making said plagiarists look really stupid by having them steal this entire article within moments of its publication, and see them include every bit of these opening paragraphs which attack them directly, with the odd nonsensical synonym or bizarre edit to the flow of sentences.

Anyway, let’s resume our regularly scheduled programming here on midlifegamergeek.com, eh?

So, Doctor Who #1 is a series relaunch from Titan Comics which does that egregious modern comic thing, in launching a new series that directly follows on from a previous one, with plot points and story beats referencing previous events that readers may not be aware of.

Of course, Doctor Who itself has a long history and continuity, however flexible that may be at times. It just seems like it’s a bit cheeky to launch a number one to draw in new readers when this is, essentially, directly continuing a prior story.

That’s my complaining out of the way, because this is actually a bloody good comic! In it, the shenanigans of the Thirteenth and Tenth Doctor’s team up has caused a massive change across time, leading to the Sea Devils being in control of the surface world, having enslaved the Earth’s human population.

Writer Jody Houser really nails the voices and quirks of all the characters who appear, which includes some very surprising, but welcome additions to the cast. Though we’ve seen them in alt-Earth form before, it’s still great to catch up with them again; even if they’re not quite the same characters we know and love.

Roberta Ingranata’s art is a great fit for the comic too, with cartoony likenesses that don’t veer into uncanny valley or too heavily referenced territory, which can often be the bane of licensed comics.

Anyway, I hugely enjoyed this issue, and I even managed to find it with a variant cover; which is why you’ll see ‘ya boi’ (oh God, I’m never doing that again) holding the gorgeous, Peach Momoko sketch version of the comic in my hand, in the above image. Yes, that’s me there, holding my very own copy of the Doctor Who #1 comic, with a shout out to the excellent Southampton Comics, who had it in stock for a surprisingly reasonable price!

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