Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time, Volume 3 by Scott Tipton

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Continuing the Prisoners of Time story from Volume 2:

"Mystery Date"-The quality of the artwork takes a turn for the better as we land in new Who territory with that lovely TARDIS team of the Ninth Doctor and Rose and a planet owned and built as an apparent monument to a rich man who's been dead for many years but is really secretly alive and wants to claim Rose as his "companion." It's an intriguing story in and of itself and it was on par with many of the stories that appeared Doctor Who Magazine at the time. (Though this made me hanker to re-read Doctor Who: The Cruel Sea At anyway, we get the first reveal as to the villain who's behind this, and it's very clever. Overall, a solid story hurt only by some poor lettering decisions early in the issue where you had to guess who was talking. Grade: A-

"Quiet on the Set"-It begins with the Tenth Doctor taking Martha to the 1940s and showing her an image of Gallifrey which escaped in what was a pretty poignant scene with Gallifey being beautifully drawn and then it's off to a movie set where Martha is cast in the lead and one of Doctor Who's least popular one-shot villains was at work. It was brave, but I'm not certain how good an idea it was to bring them back. The story is okay and ends with the Tenth Doctor setting us up for the finale. Grade: B

"The Choice and Endgame": The final two parts should be reviewed together. At the beginning of the comic, Clara disappears from the 11th Doctor, and he's off to find her, and events lead to the reveal of another villain and a big mash up full of Companions and Doctors. It's very satisfying and a superb celebration of the show and of the Companions love for the Doctor and they manage to give several Doctors good moments, although many of the Classic Doctors were a bit shorted, but somebody's going to be in a story of this sort. The final issue were very satisfying because I think only in a comic could you get in so many different companions and Doctors. In terms of Fiftieth Anniversary Specials, Big Finish was pushing the limit with eight Doctors and eight companions. You get far many more here, although sadly a few of them end up with only a line or two in the final story. Still, despite some flaws, the story is good and it's the right something special that the whole mini-series built towards. Grade: A-





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