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Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Archives (single issues) #1-13
Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Archives Omnibus Vol. 1
• Jack the Ripper and sentient spam! Giant robot dinosaurs and ancient football! Body-swaps, giant space squid... and a very happy Christmas!
• It's all in the first Eleventh Doctor Archives Omnibus, collecting US-format comics from 2010-2011!
Collects: Doctor Who Volume II (2010) #1-12 and Annual 2011, previously published in the collections 'The Ripper', 'When Worlds Collide', and 'It Came From Outer Space'
333 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 30, 2015
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About the author
Tony Lee
522 books47 followersA New York Times Best-selling Graphic Novelist, Tony Lee was born in West London, UK in 1970. Informed by a teacher that he had a comic book style of writing, (a comment meant more as an insult), Tony decided that one day he would write for comics.
Tony has written for a variety of mediums including Radio 4, The BBC, commerical television in both the UK and US, magazines and both local and national newspapers. He has also written several award winning local radio campaigns. In 1991 he wrote for a small press comics publisher, of which only one project, The Cost of Miracles in Comic Speculator News was ever printed, and remains his first printed commercial comic work.
Moving away from comics, he went back into trade journalism and media marketing/creation. His small press magazine Burnt Offerings was a minor seller on both sides of the Atlantic, and was the first esoteric magazine to interview mainstream creators like Terry Pratchett and Pat Mills.
Since returning to comics in 2002, he has written for a variety of publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics/Zuda, Games Workshop, Panini Comics, Titan Publishing, AAM/Markosia Enterprises, Rebellion/2000ad and IDW Publishing amongst others, writing a variety of creator owned titles and licenses that include X-Men, Spider Man, Doctor Who, Starship Troopers, Wallace & Gromit and Shrek.
He is the writer of the ongoing Doctor Who series of comics from IDW, beginning in July 2009, and his award nominated, creator-owned miniseries Hope Falls was collected by AAM/Markosia in May 2009. His next book with them, From The Pages Of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula': Harker, was released in November 2009 to critical acclaim.
Added to this, Tony adapted Pride & Prejudice & Zombies into a graphic novel for Del Rey Publishing, with art by Cliff Richards - this was a New York Times #1 Bestselling Paperback Graphic Novel for May 2010 - he is also adapting Anthony Horowitz's Power of Five series into graphic format for Walker Books, the first - Raven's Gate is due out in late 2010, and he has adapted four Horowitz Horror books with Dan Boultwood for Hachette Children's Books.
His other book with Walker Books, Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood (drawn by Sam Hart) was released in 2009 and has already been awarded a Junior Library Guild: Fall 2009 Selection, and 'best for 2010' awards from both the American Library Association and the New York Public Library in the USA, among others. In March 2010 it was announced that it was also a finalist for the Children's Choice Book Awards. The next in the 'Heroes & Heroines' series, Excalibur: The Legend Of King Arthur by Tony Lee & Sam Hart is scheduled for March 2011.
Outside of comics he is writing several books for children.
Tony is represented by Julian Friedmann of the Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency.
Tony is also an accomplished Bard and performer, and has held the High Bard chair of the East Sussex Broomstick Rally on several occasions. His lecture Creating Gods for fun and Profit and his series of lectures on Bards and Ritual Magic were received to critical acclaim, and he still lectures occasionally in London, the Midlands and Sussex. As a Covent Garden Street Performer in the 90's, he performed 'The Scarlet Blade' Street Theatre show at the Edinburgh Festival and at locations across the UK, convincing members of the public to act out an insane pantomime for his amusement.
Added to this Tony is an accomplished storyteller and lecturer on writing, and has performed at libraries, events and schools around the world including the 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival, a 2009 tour of India for the British Council, and in 2003 around the Wadi Rum bedouin campfire in Jordan.
Tony currently lives in London with his fiancée, Tracy.
from: http://www.tonylee.co.uk
Tony has written for a variety of mediums including Radio 4, The BBC, commerical television in both the UK and US, magazines and both local and national newspapers. He has also written several award winning local radio campaigns. In 1991 he wrote for a small press comics publisher, of which only one project, The Cost of Miracles in Comic Speculator News was ever printed, and remains his first printed commercial comic work.
Moving away from comics, he went back into trade journalism and media marketing/creation. His small press magazine Burnt Offerings was a minor seller on both sides of the Atlantic, and was the first esoteric magazine to interview mainstream creators like Terry Pratchett and Pat Mills.
Since returning to comics in 2002, he has written for a variety of publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics/Zuda, Games Workshop, Panini Comics, Titan Publishing, AAM/Markosia Enterprises, Rebellion/2000ad and IDW Publishing amongst others, writing a variety of creator owned titles and licenses that include X-Men, Spider Man, Doctor Who, Starship Troopers, Wallace & Gromit and Shrek.
He is the writer of the ongoing Doctor Who series of comics from IDW, beginning in July 2009, and his award nominated, creator-owned miniseries Hope Falls was collected by AAM/Markosia in May 2009. His next book with them, From The Pages Of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula': Harker, was released in November 2009 to critical acclaim.
Added to this, Tony adapted Pride & Prejudice & Zombies into a graphic novel for Del Rey Publishing, with art by Cliff Richards - this was a New York Times #1 Bestselling Paperback Graphic Novel for May 2010 - he is also adapting Anthony Horowitz's Power of Five series into graphic format for Walker Books, the first - Raven's Gate is due out in late 2010, and he has adapted four Horowitz Horror books with Dan Boultwood for Hachette Children's Books.
His other book with Walker Books, Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood (drawn by Sam Hart) was released in 2009 and has already been awarded a Junior Library Guild: Fall 2009 Selection, and 'best for 2010' awards from both the American Library Association and the New York Public Library in the USA, among others. In March 2010 it was announced that it was also a finalist for the Children's Choice Book Awards. The next in the 'Heroes & Heroines' series, Excalibur: The Legend Of King Arthur by Tony Lee & Sam Hart is scheduled for March 2011.
Outside of comics he is writing several books for children.
Tony is represented by Julian Friedmann of the Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency.
Tony is also an accomplished Bard and performer, and has held the High Bard chair of the East Sussex Broomstick Rally on several occasions. His lecture Creating Gods for fun and Profit and his series of lectures on Bards and Ritual Magic were received to critical acclaim, and he still lectures occasionally in London, the Midlands and Sussex. As a Covent Garden Street Performer in the 90's, he performed 'The Scarlet Blade' Street Theatre show at the Edinburgh Festival and at locations across the UK, convincing members of the public to act out an insane pantomime for his amusement.
Added to this Tony is an accomplished storyteller and lecturer on writing, and has performed at libraries, events and schools around the world including the 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival, a 2009 tour of India for the British Council, and in 2003 around the Wadi Rum bedouin campfire in Jordan.
Tony currently lives in London with his fiancée, Tracy.
from: http://www.tonylee.co.uk
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September 13, 2022
5 stars
Nice to see the Doctor with Amy and Rory.
Nice to see the Doctor with Amy and Rory.
September 11, 2016
I really enjoyed the stories in this collection. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for more!
January 2, 2016
How do you explain Doctor Who? The Doctor is an alien who looks human (“No, you look Timelord!”), the last of his kind, travelling all of time and space in a vessel camouflaged to look like a 1960s British police telephone box. There’s a fair bit of tourism, to be sure, but the Doctor is always willing to help someone in need…and since his ship has a habit of depositing him when and where he's needed rather than where he wants to be, he has ample opportunity. When critically injured he regenerates into a new body, thus allowing the showrunners to do a semi-reboot every few years without actually hitting the reset button and starting from scratch. Clear as mud? Good! Let’s move on to the book, shall we? This particular tome is a collection of Doctor Who tie-in comics starring the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companions Amy and Rory Pond, set during Amy and Rory’s honeymoon in between the fifth and sixth seasons of the revived series. It's status as canon is questionable, but even with the occasional inconsistency* it shouldn't be too hard to square things given the shifting nature of the timeline.
Doctor Who is at its most fun when it’s reveling in its core of whimsical lunacy, but there’s a deep vein of tragedy and determination to the character of the Doctor, and it’s the moments that this is revealed that make the franchise one of my favorites. Thankfully, this collection does both elements extremely well. There's whimsy galore, from spam email infecting the TARDIS' mainframe and manifesting as holograms to Kevin, a robotic tyrannosaur that briefly joins the adventuring. There's a story that functions on one level as a standard Doctor Who romp and on another as an homage to the show Castle, transplanting the cast of that series to a space station. There are also more serious moments, such as a conversation between Rory and the Doctor about how much Amy means to them both, or between Rory and Kevin about finding your place and purpose in the world. These moments serve to ground the characters, making the Doctor, for all that he is an alien, very human. There's a wide variety of art styles, and while I'm more a fan of some than others, they all seem to work for the stories being presented.
Most of these are written by Tony Lee, with the exceptions being the stories from the 2011 Doctor Who Annual. Spam Filtered (art by Andrew Currie, colors by Charlie Kirchoff) sees the TARDIS overrun with holographic spam mail after Rory and Amy use it's extra-temporal internet connection to check their email, forcing the TARDIS to set down and reboot. Unfortunately, the planet they land on is scheduled for destruction in about an hour.... The art here is pretty good, especially when it features the Doctor or Amy. Rory kind of gets the shaft, though. Also, the leader of the Scroungers is totally Danny Trejo. In The Ripper's Curse (art by Richard Piers Rayner, Horacio Domingues, & Tim Hamilton, colors by Phil Elliott) the Doctor and company get sidetracked to Whitechapel, London just in time for Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. The art on this one is shared among three artists, which leads to some small inconsistencies in the visuals, but the colorist is the same all the way through and helps to smooth things out with a painted (maybe watercolor?) aesthetic. It was different. I liked it, most of the time anyway, though I'm starting to think nobody can draw Rory properly. They Think It's All Over (art by Mark Buckingham, colors by Charlie Kirchoff) has our protagonists once more sidetracked on their way to their football match, this time a case of right place, wrong time. This time, they're in the ninth century, stuck between the invading Vikings and Alfred The Great's defending Britons. Good story, and it includes a scene that should help explain just why the Doctor and Rory are two of my favorite characters ever, in different ways. The art was good, as is expected from Buckingham. When Worlds Collide (art by Matthew Dow Smith, colors by Charlie Kirchoff) gives us a minimalist, geometric aesthetic that actually worked better than I'd expected. The story involves a strange resort built on a rift allowing for different spaces slightly out of phase with each other....until an accident merges them all. Suddenly, there's a dozen Amys, a dozen Rorys, and a dozen Doctors....and a whole army of Sontarans. Also introducing Kevin the Dinosaur! Space Squid (art by Josh Adams, colors by Rachelle Rosenberg) was weird. I think the writer had a fixation with the television show Castle (and who can blame him?) because the side characters are all named after the cast of that series. Commander Katic, Major Fillion, everyone down to Ensign Quinn. It was honestly a bit distracting, though I did laugh when I first noticed. The likenesses aren't bad, either...most of the time anyway. The story involves a mind-controlled cult on a space station that wants to enslave the galaxy to their giant squid god. Yeah, you read that right. It's not Cthulhu though, unfortunately. Body Snatched (art by Matthew Dow Smith, colors by Charlie Kirchoff) sees the Doctor set off to save his friend Trevor, the Horse Lord of Khan. It seems Trevor has had his mind transferred into a bioengineered plant person on the hospital planet of Bedlam....Smith's art is once more strangely suitable for the story being told. Silent Night (art by Paul Grist, colors by Phil Elliott) is a "silent" tale featuring the dynamic duo of The Doctor and...Santa Claus? Odd, but fun. Not sure how it fits in with last year's Christmas Special though... Run, Doctor, Run (written by Joshua Hale Fialkov, art by Blair Shedd) is an homage to the Looney Toons, featuring a planet without conventional physics that makes up and down unpredictable. Down To Earth (written by Matthew Dow Smith, art by Mitch Gerads, colors by Gerads & Kyle Latino) was a nice little tale featuring an alien stranded on Earth who would rather just stay if it's all the same to everyone. The art was good, too. Tuesday (written and art by Dan McDaid, colors by McDaid & Deborah McCumiskey) is told in the form of a letter home to Amy's parents detailing a few of their adventures. The art was odd, but it worked.
CONTENT: Mild profanity, nothing too severe. Several murders, played to be quite scary in The Ripper's Curse. A couple scantily clad characters. Minor sexual innuendos in the form of a couple "little blue pill" jokes in Spam Filtered or Rory's sudden enthusiasm for a beach vacation at the thought of Amy in a bikini. Some prostitution in The Ripper's Curse, nothing too explicit.
*One that springs immediately to mind is Jack the Ripper, here shown to be an alien stopped by the Doctor and friends, elsewhere stated to have been "stringy, but quite tasty" by Madame Vastra.
Doctor Who is at its most fun when it’s reveling in its core of whimsical lunacy, but there’s a deep vein of tragedy and determination to the character of the Doctor, and it’s the moments that this is revealed that make the franchise one of my favorites. Thankfully, this collection does both elements extremely well. There's whimsy galore, from spam email infecting the TARDIS' mainframe and manifesting as holograms to Kevin, a robotic tyrannosaur that briefly joins the adventuring. There's a story that functions on one level as a standard Doctor Who romp and on another as an homage to the show Castle, transplanting the cast of that series to a space station. There are also more serious moments, such as a conversation between Rory and the Doctor about how much Amy means to them both, or between Rory and Kevin about finding your place and purpose in the world. These moments serve to ground the characters, making the Doctor, for all that he is an alien, very human. There's a wide variety of art styles, and while I'm more a fan of some than others, they all seem to work for the stories being presented.
Most of these are written by Tony Lee, with the exceptions being the stories from the 2011 Doctor Who Annual. Spam Filtered (art by Andrew Currie, colors by Charlie Kirchoff) sees the TARDIS overrun with holographic spam mail after Rory and Amy use it's extra-temporal internet connection to check their email, forcing the TARDIS to set down and reboot. Unfortunately, the planet they land on is scheduled for destruction in about an hour.... The art here is pretty good, especially when it features the Doctor or Amy. Rory kind of gets the shaft, though. Also, the leader of the Scroungers is totally Danny Trejo. In The Ripper's Curse (art by Richard Piers Rayner, Horacio Domingues, & Tim Hamilton, colors by Phil Elliott) the Doctor and company get sidetracked to Whitechapel, London just in time for Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. The art on this one is shared among three artists, which leads to some small inconsistencies in the visuals, but the colorist is the same all the way through and helps to smooth things out with a painted (maybe watercolor?) aesthetic. It was different. I liked it, most of the time anyway, though I'm starting to think nobody can draw Rory properly. They Think It's All Over (art by Mark Buckingham, colors by Charlie Kirchoff) has our protagonists once more sidetracked on their way to their football match, this time a case of right place, wrong time. This time, they're in the ninth century, stuck between the invading Vikings and Alfred The Great's defending Britons. Good story, and it includes a scene that should help explain just why the Doctor and Rory are two of my favorite characters ever, in different ways. The art was good, as is expected from Buckingham. When Worlds Collide (art by Matthew Dow Smith, colors by Charlie Kirchoff) gives us a minimalist, geometric aesthetic that actually worked better than I'd expected. The story involves a strange resort built on a rift allowing for different spaces slightly out of phase with each other....until an accident merges them all. Suddenly, there's a dozen Amys, a dozen Rorys, and a dozen Doctors....and a whole army of Sontarans. Also introducing Kevin the Dinosaur! Space Squid (art by Josh Adams, colors by Rachelle Rosenberg) was weird. I think the writer had a fixation with the television show Castle (and who can blame him?) because the side characters are all named after the cast of that series. Commander Katic, Major Fillion, everyone down to Ensign Quinn. It was honestly a bit distracting, though I did laugh when I first noticed. The likenesses aren't bad, either...most of the time anyway. The story involves a mind-controlled cult on a space station that wants to enslave the galaxy to their giant squid god. Yeah, you read that right. It's not Cthulhu though, unfortunately. Body Snatched (art by Matthew Dow Smith, colors by Charlie Kirchoff) sees the Doctor set off to save his friend Trevor, the Horse Lord of Khan. It seems Trevor has had his mind transferred into a bioengineered plant person on the hospital planet of Bedlam....Smith's art is once more strangely suitable for the story being told. Silent Night (art by Paul Grist, colors by Phil Elliott) is a "silent" tale featuring the dynamic duo of The Doctor and...Santa Claus? Odd, but fun. Not sure how it fits in with last year's Christmas Special though... Run, Doctor, Run (written by Joshua Hale Fialkov, art by Blair Shedd) is an homage to the Looney Toons, featuring a planet without conventional physics that makes up and down unpredictable. Down To Earth (written by Matthew Dow Smith, art by Mitch Gerads, colors by Gerads & Kyle Latino) was a nice little tale featuring an alien stranded on Earth who would rather just stay if it's all the same to everyone. The art was good, too. Tuesday (written and art by Dan McDaid, colors by McDaid & Deborah McCumiskey) is told in the form of a letter home to Amy's parents detailing a few of their adventures. The art was odd, but it worked.
CONTENT: Mild profanity, nothing too severe. Several murders, played to be quite scary in The Ripper's Curse. A couple scantily clad characters. Minor sexual innuendos in the form of a couple "little blue pill" jokes in Spam Filtered or Rory's sudden enthusiasm for a beach vacation at the thought of Amy in a bikini. Some prostitution in The Ripper's Curse, nothing too explicit.
*One that springs immediately to mind is Jack the Ripper, here shown to be an alien stopped by the Doctor and friends, elsewhere stated to have been "stringy, but quite tasty" by Madame Vastra.
August 9, 2017
A good compilation of short stories featuring the Doctor and the Ponds outside their onscreen adventures. While the art and stories are largely vibrant and engaging, some of the pop culture references may take readers out of the story if they find them gimmicky (I was more amused, but fair warning I guess). I really loved the silent little Christmas story because it shows off Eleven's animated nature quite well.
November 21, 2018
I'd already read the story arcs "Ripper's Curse," "When World's Collide," and "Body Snatched." The former felt redundant since there've been other Jack the Ripper stories, and the art from the latter two wasn't really to my liking. Those stories were okay at best in my opinion. But all the one-shot stories collected here have great art and writing. Some featured The Doctor by himself, some featured him with Amy and Rory. Ended up being a collection worth having.
April 15, 2018
I wish the graphic novels would work more on their dialog. All the Doctor would say is something was cool, and Rory went on and on about how much he loves Amy and protected her for 2000 years. Come on.
August 14, 2019
Loves this! Some stories were more engaging than others, same goes for art styles—but I didn’t think anything was bad, and who doesn’t love dinosaur robots named Kevin?
Would recommend for lovers of Eleven, and I’ll definitely be picking up the next omnibus!
Would recommend for lovers of Eleven, and I’ll definitely be picking up the next omnibus!
April 21, 2023
Some of these worked better than others for me but then there was Kevin, the T-Rex, and really all thoughts of anything other than him floated out the window. A perfect, perfect character and I loved his story entirely. Where's my Kevin spin-off??
December 21, 2024
anthologies are usually pretty inconsistent in quality of stories, but really enjoyed pretty much all of these! stand out was definitely body snatched, but lots of fun plots/stories! and amy/rory/the doctor's voices are felt very realistic (especially in the first story!)
December 18, 2025
Most of the stories in this volume left me feeling "meh", though I enjoyed the amusing Christmas one-shot and Kevin was a fun character. I'd read more of his adventures, for sure. What I'd like less of is the 11th Doctor calling everything "cool".
April 27, 2018
Art was sometimes unsatisfactory, had some laugh-out-loud moments. hit that nostalgia spot.
April 15, 2020
A great collection of comic strip stories. Some are better than others, but all are enjoyable to read and capture the Eleventh Doctor era well.
August 17, 2021
I loved this book. Some of the art style was a little strange as some of the stories. But I love how the authors were able to capture the 11th doctor and his personality.
February 20, 2017
This fun romp features the eleventh Doctor and my favorite (to date) companions: Amy and Rory. Like Doctor Who should, the tales in this collection made me laugh, made me think, and was full of great characters.
The Doctor and the Ponds (haha) face everything from sentient spam emails to Jack the Ripper to a giant space squid. Full of the trademark humor, pop culture references, and subtle commentary on the human existence, this collection did not disappoint.
Whovian should most certainly check this out and I think most fans of the comic and/or sci-fi genre would be pleased. I do wish we got a little more Kevin out the story however.
Geronimo!
The Doctor and the Ponds (haha) face everything from sentient spam emails to Jack the Ripper to a giant space squid. Full of the trademark humor, pop culture references, and subtle commentary on the human existence, this collection did not disappoint.
Whovian should most certainly check this out and I think most fans of the comic and/or sci-fi genre would be pleased. I do wish we got a little more Kevin out the story however.
Geronimo!
January 2, 2016
I'm a fan of Matt Smith's tenure as the Eleventh Doctor, so when I was sent Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Archives Omnibus: Volume One for review, I was really excited. I'm a fan of comics, I have enjoyed Doctor Who since I was a kid (Tom Baker reruns on PBS!), and yet wasn't prepared for how good Tony Lee's writing would be. While my appreciation of the artwork varied (I love Matthew Dow Smith's Mignola-esque style especially), the quality of Tony Lee's writing was consistently whimsical in a way that matched the mood of the Eleventh Doctor's run on television. He's got a mad sense of humor, from the holographic spam Rory inadvertently downloads into the TARDIS in "Spam Filtered" to Kevin, the robot-T-Rex who hums the theme from Star Wars as he attacks a Space Squid, Tony Lee's writing never failed to entertain, even when there was no "writing" at all, as in the lovely dialogue-free Christmas issue, "Silent Night," which features the Doctor giving Santa a hand when the reindeer get a bit beat-up. Doctor Who fans preferring a more serious approach to their Time Lord will want to steer far clear of this omnibus, but for those like me who loved Matt Smith as the Doctor will want to add it to their collection as soon as possible.
February 5, 2017
I really liked this one. This graphic novel manages to bring in stories from every doctor up to and including the eleventh one. This book includes 10 stories and even manages to include a large robotic dinosaur named Kevin and a giant mind controlling space squid. What more could you ask for?
May 13, 2016
Some excellent stories here. I rolled my eyes at another Jack The Ripper tale but this one was OK. Artwork varies from astounding to poor, but the great stuff makes up for the less good.
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