Titan Comics has debuted the Thirteenth Doctor in comics, really it was the Free Comic Book Day 2018 which was a sneak peek (hope you got that one!, I picked up on ebay), this one features writing by Jody Houser who also writes Stranger Things for Dark Horse and the Poe Dameron Annual #2 for Marvel Comics, everything is turning up Jody Houser! The artwork is by Rachael Stott, who has worked on The Twelfth Doctor Year Two and Three and DC Comics Bombshells. There is a number of variant covers of course, I chose the painted cover of The Doctor’s face by Alice X. Zhang! Just you didn’t catch the pilot or the first episodes of The Thirteenth Doctor there is a summary of the characters. It is 1999, in a museum, alarms are blaring. Two shadowy people, Doctor Schulz and Perkins, are in the art gallery in futuristic suits. It seems they are time travelers and scientists. A security camera captures them.
It shifts to 3912, there is a multi-colored sky, beautiful props to colorist Enrica Eren Angiolini. On a hill, Team Tardis watch the Sentient Nebulae of Beclplam Two and a Half. Then, we see the Doctor, Ryan, Yaz, and Graham with floating insects like fairy creatures. Yaz thinks the bursts are aggressive, but the Doctor tells her this life played out in micro-seconds. Graham points out a swirling, light mass and the Doctor scans it with her sonic screwdriver. A hand reaches out to them from the light. Yaz asks the Doctor about having seen the light display before and she explains it was with other eyes. The Doctor runs back to the Tardis. Once inside, the Doctor is on all sides of the control console trying to track the light. Then, we get a two page splash with the Tardis and all of the characters, The Doctor is next to a Stegosaurus, and the hands reaching out from the light portal.
In a massive treasure house that looks right out of Smaug’s hoard, a mysterious wealthy lord is displeased with the crack in the painting’s frame brought in by Perkins and Dr. Schulz. Strange, gem-encrusted shelled aliens bring Dr. Schulz her shot. Revealed, the lord is in red robes, wearing jewelry, and has blue skin with horns. He asks for another thing. The Tardis appears on a. Another planet, the Doctor walks out to see stranger fungal growths, and then we get another splash of the Tardis with moons in conjunction. These are great visuals. They wait and the portal appears, the Doctor uses her sonic screwdriver to stabilize it, the hand reaches out. Ryan takes it. The rest of the team helps pull a man in the same suit. It is Schulz and the Doctor thinks his vortex manipulator is damaged. This is the personal time travel device. Yaz hears something. There is the stomping of boots. Rifles are pointed at them from the Grand Army of the Just. Everyone is forced into a circle with Schulz in the center! Questions! Questions! Everything is mysterious. I’m ready to see where this story goes!
Four Sonic Screwdrivers out of Five!
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