Doctor Who: Endgame by Alan Barnes

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book collects the first two years of Eighth Doctor Comic strips for Doctor Who Magazine and introduces Izzy Sinclair.

Overall, what does make the Strips work is that there is a lot of continuity, in fact much more than in the modern Doctor Who Magazine Comic strips I've read. At this point, in terms of creating the Doctor, the magazine had little direction other than the TV Movie as this portrayal came before even the novels.

The best stories in the book are, "Fire and Brimstone" featuring the Daleks, "The Final Chapter" featuring a mystery on Gallifrey and then "Wormwood" where the source comes together and it all involves an alien and a 19th Century Texas tycoon. On the other side of the ledger, the title story, "Endgame" was dull and "Tooth and Claw" (no resemblance to the 10th Doctor TV story of the same name) was cheesy and unfunny at the same time.

There were also two one off stories that were included at he end even though these unrelated stories fell in the midst of the the story arc. These are okay with a funny moment or two but not spectacular.

Overall, despite some hiccups, this is a fairly good, with the overall strength of the story arc making this worth reading despite some weaker individual entries.



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