Countdown to New Who: Advent 2016: Day 4

   Music plays a very large part in both Doctor Who and Christmas. So why not combine the two? For today's advent gift, I present to you Strax the Sontaran singing Songtaran Carols (with special appearance by the 11th Doctor.

    Enjoy...

Doctor Who #8 (2011-2012)

When the Sontaran battle cruiser exploded over the temporal rift that the Doctor, Amy, and Rory were vacationing near, it split the multiple realities apart. As there were 12 time zones created, there are now 12 versions of the Sontarans, 12 sets of Ponds and 12 Doctors (too bad River Song couldn’t make this trip…)

  Funny, but a bit confusing. That’s time travel for you.

   Oh, and this issue introduces the most unusual Doctor Who companion this side of Frobisher, the talking Penguin…

 

   Good stuff that borders on the absurd and very complex.

  Worth Consuming

  Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.

Doctor Who (2011-2012) #7

     After a Sontaran battleship crashes into a space station sitting atop a temporal rift, the crew of the TARDIS find themselves trapped in time. The Doctor is being hounded by rogue robot dinosaurs. Rory, mistaken to be Billy the Kid, is about to by hanged by an old west mob, and Amy is on the run from the Nazis. In all of these realities, the Sontarans have been fused into the timeline as enemies. It looks like all hope for these travelers is lost until they each are rescued by a mysterious woman named Lisa.
    Why are there Sontarans everywhere? What is Lisa's role in this time-warped caper? And is that the TARDIS on the horizon?
    Another fun chapter in IDW's 2011-2012 run of 11th Doctor adventures. With the crazy cliffhanger, I can't wait for the next chapter to see what hi-jinks will occur next! It's a timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly brain teaser that can only be attributed to one man- show-runner, Stephen Moffat!

    Worth Consuming

   Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.
    

Doctor Who (2011-2012) #6

 The Doctor, Amy, and Rory are looking for a chance to unwind. They set the TARDIS to a pleasure station that sits atop a temporal rift in the farthest reaches of space. Here, multiple timelines throughout history can play out within a matter of feet from each other. The Doctor has been here many times before and has had nothing but great memories of the place.

   But that’s all about to change when a badly damaged Sontaran ship approaches the space station in need of repairs. Leaking a special type of plasma fuel, The Doctor fears that if the Sontaran craft touches the temporal rift all of existence could be wiped out for light years around in a massive explosion.

   Well, the Doctor was right about the explosion. But instead of becoming one with the universe, the Timelord and his companions find themselves separated throughout the many time zones of the space station, each facing menacing problems of their own; such as rampaging dinosaur robots, an old west lynch mob, or Nazi Sontarins?!

   This opening chapter looks to be a fun Doctor Who adventure. The writing by 2000 A.D.’s Tony Lee captures the Doctor, Amy, and Rory very well. The Sontarans too! But the art is really strange.

   Artist Matthew Dow Smith, who does a fantastic job on many Mike Mignola titles such as BPRD, just isn’t a Doctor Who artist. On the Mignola titles, Smith’s job is to replicate the artwork of Mignola from the Hellboy books from which BPRD have spun-off. But Doctor Who is an entirely different animal and shouldn’t be drawn like Hellboy unless the two franchises were going to meet. (Oh wow! A Hellboy/ Doctor Who crossover! Put me down for a full series run of that please!)

    Great premise. Excellent writing. Art not meant for a Timelord… But still, when you boil it all down it’s worthy of some fish fingers and custard.

   Worth Consuming

  Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.