Collecting the first two lengthy strips from Doctor Who Weekly featuring Dave Gibbons' rendition of the character, this IDW book is a finely packaged testament to one of the industry's very finest artists handling one of the greatest characters of modern fiction. While the second tale follows the first, these are as good as self-contained, making it an easy read for readers new to the science fictional tales of the Doctor been hungry for some exceptionally good Gibbons art.
With this creative team, these may well be some of the best Who comics ever produced, and Wagner and Mills churned out exemplary and fantastical situations ranging from laugh out loud punnery and surrealist absurdity to rather hardcore science fantasy and mind-bending scenarios full of ever-twisting plots and constant barrages of cliffhangers. This is full throttle pacing, eloquently crafted. The first story, The Iron Legion, deals with a reality where Rome never fell but instead grew to conquer the galaxy. The next story, City of the Damned, deals with a world caught in a totalitarian rule where emotion itself is the greatest crime. And all manner of wackiness ensues. Brilliant, brilliant stuff.
And Gibbons, handling pencils and inks and lettering, fills his masterfully laid out pages with the fullest detail possible, all in all showing what the medium can really be capable of when artists look elsewhere for inspiration other than the comics of the past twenty or so years. His imagination alone should have long ago garnered some kinda Nobel prize or something. And, this volume has been recolored by Kirchoff, who does a far more than mere adequate a job of it. There are many scenes of the original strip that could have flourished even moreso with elaborately inventive coloring, and he certainly delivers here.
For those longtime fans of the Who comics, this collection is a cakewalk down memory lane, and for those intimidated by the breadth of the legacy, this is a great tome to see what you've missed. Top notch material all the way, and cheers to IDW for the swell design and packaging of some of the medium's greatest.
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