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Doctor Who (2020) #2
Doctor Who Comic Vol. 2: Missy
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Master with a unique graphic novel starring fan-favorite Missy!
Missy's up to her old tricks, but this time she's not alone! How will the Doctor survive this latest maniacal plot in this special story celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Master?
Bursting straight out of the long-running hit television series, this Doctor Who collection continues the time-travelling tales of the Doctor and friends.
Buy it, read it, then travel back in time to read it for the first time all over again...!
Missy's up to her old tricks, but this time she's not alone! How will the Doctor survive this latest maniacal plot in this special story celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Master?
Bursting straight out of the long-running hit television series, this Doctor Who collection continues the time-travelling tales of the Doctor and friends.
Buy it, read it, then travel back in time to read it for the first time all over again...!
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First published October 26, 2021
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January 2, 2022
A fast-paced romp through Missy/The Master's history from their most recent stories Nu Who to some very deep cuts that go right back to their first appearances. In fact some of it was so deep, you would have to be a seriously hard core fan of Doctor Who to get all of them. Needless to say, I might be a fan but I'm not that hardcore.
The art was excellent, the story was typical Doctor Who in that it doesn't make much sense if you think about it for more than 10 seconds and while I enjoyed it, I didn't love it. Still, as this is volume 2, I might need to reserve judgement until I can read the earlier volume.
The art was excellent, the story was typical Doctor Who in that it doesn't make much sense if you think about it for more than 10 seconds and while I enjoyed it, I didn't love it. Still, as this is volume 2, I might need to reserve judgement until I can read the earlier volume.
May 12, 2022
Another Doctor Who comic with loads of potential, that just doesn’t quite deliver. Stiff, unmoving art that felt rushed and uninspired, and a story that seems to want to go everywhere, only to end up going nowhere in an awful hurry.
November 17, 2021
A fun, twisty celebration of the Master/Missy's enduring legacy.
Houser successfully captures the voice of both Missy and Delgado's Master in this unconventional doublecross story. I could just imagine the two iterations of the fiendish Time Lord sharing scenes together on the show, trading wary compliments and precise barbs. The very idea of Missy trying to pull the wool over her former self's eyes was interesting to watch though this did get a bit strained from time to time. Her snide impressions of the Doctor made up for the slow moments though.
Ingranata's artwork complimented Houser's story well, enriching the experience with its photo realism. I particularly liked the attention to detail regarding a very recent event in the Master's present. Something tells me that Ingranata didn't have as many points of reference for this scene aside from what was featured in the episode.
This comic marks an interesting period in Missy's life, exploring her sense of morality and how she transitioned from an out-and-out sadist to someone capable of doing the right thing. This development ended a bit early for my liking but it remains a solid effort.
I recommend Doctor Who, Volume 2: Missy to fans of the character and Doctor Who's vivid history.
Houser successfully captures the voice of both Missy and Delgado's Master in this unconventional doublecross story. I could just imagine the two iterations of the fiendish Time Lord sharing scenes together on the show, trading wary compliments and precise barbs. The very idea of Missy trying to pull the wool over her former self's eyes was interesting to watch though this did get a bit strained from time to time. Her snide impressions of the Doctor made up for the slow moments though.
Ingranata's artwork complimented Houser's story well, enriching the experience with its photo realism. I particularly liked the attention to detail regarding a very recent event in the Master's present. Something tells me that Ingranata didn't have as many points of reference for this scene aside from what was featured in the episode.
This comic marks an interesting period in Missy's life, exploring her sense of morality and how she transitioned from an out-and-out sadist to someone capable of doing the right thing. This development ended a bit early for my liking but it remains a solid effort.
I recommend Doctor Who, Volume 2: Missy to fans of the character and Doctor Who's vivid history.
December 17, 2021
Ne serait-ce que pour le fantastique design de costume Missy/Doctor, ça vaut le détour. Je suis encore un peu confus· sur l'objectif de la mission de Missy, mais l'approche qu'elle a (sa justification à la fin au Master) est très "in-character" et permet une bonne transition.
November 11, 2021
Perfect celebration for The Master's 50th anniversary. It's fun multi-incarnation adventure with great callbacks. Houser captures Missy's voice well, the art looks great.
May 16, 2024
Missy, my beloved💞
December 31, 2023
A fun story teaming up Missy with the original UNIT-era Master, with nods to the Master's history throughout. This largely hangs on Missy's characterization, which is spot-on and constantly entertaining. The ending is a bit unsatisfying (and admittedly vague about the point of it all), but the rest of the ride is worth reading. (B+)
June 14, 2022
This was so fantastic! I love Missy.
July 31, 2021
The Thirteenth Doctor's era as depicted within Titan Comics under the penmanship of Jody Houser has, unfortunately, been one of lowered expectations. Meandering stories with copious dialog and little action, with lame 'gimmicks' that fail to amount to anything special. This is also the case here, in the much-anticipated Missy solo series.
Missy's existence is proof positive that gender-swapping a traditionally male character need not be provocative nor doomed to failure, as the Jodie Whittaker TV era will likely go down in history as; she quickly became one of my all-time favourite incarnations of The Master, thanks to consistently inspired performances from Michelle Gomez, coupled with on-screen chemistry with Peter Capaldi and strong writing. Very little of that has translated from screen to comic page, however; Missy serves as little more than a tour guide in this pedantic tale that sees her and the 'Delgado Master' re-visit previous iconic moments in 'Doctor Who' televised history. While the end goal is to obtain a fragment of the Key To Time, the journey to doing so may qualify as 'fan service' for dedicated Whovians who fondly recall those previous TV moments, but nothing new is provided.
The cardinal sin to me as a comic fanboy is that the advance hype for this series promised much and under-delivered greatly. Whovians were strongly led to believe this story would feature a 'team-up' of the Third and Twelfth Doctors to prevent a universe-threatening scheme from the 'Delgado Master' and Missy. Nothing was farther from the truth. Not only do the respective Doctors not encounter one another whatsoever, but Missy's entire journey was in fact set into motion 'by' the Twelfth Doctor, who supervises from behind the scenes. While in keeping with the timeline during a period when Missy was attempting to 'prove herself' to this Doctor, it is a massive let-down for readers who were led to believe this story would feature a multi-Doctor team-up; after all, with zero restrictions in terms of scope and imagination as a comic, why 'wouldn't' Houser write such a tale? Why deprive fans who paid for this story of such a unique team-up of a well-loved Classic Doctor with a 'New Series' Doctor?
Overall, the artwork is crisp and clean, as is usually the case with Roberta Ingranata's work in the Whoniverse. Still preferring to render facial details only in sharp focus and leaving the various backgrounds blurry and indistinct is an observed fault of her art, but on the whole it is quite good. The 'UNIT HQ' scenery is however not period-authentic. While yes, this is a comic and therefore it is capable of anything visually dynamic, the loss of a multi-Doctor team-up is not adequately made up for by rendering the 1970's-era UNIT technology as 'so' high-tech that there is flat-screen TV's and 'Star Trek'-style corridors. Simply put, this was an element that didn't 'need' to be updated for modern audiences, because the charm of the Third Doctor's era is the very 70's bric-a-bracc lying around. Those scenes do not 'feel' like they are taking place in the era old-school fans are so familiar with, because adding modern 21st century tech makes it too anachronistic.
As a tribute story to celebrate 50 years of the Master character, this barely works. Instead of a balls-to-the-wall, over-the-top, universe-shattering story that sees two different but iconic versions of the character battle their respective arch-enemies, it is instead a drawn-out and rather boring story full of puns and put-downs between two Masters. Quite a disappointment.
Missy's existence is proof positive that gender-swapping a traditionally male character need not be provocative nor doomed to failure, as the Jodie Whittaker TV era will likely go down in history as; she quickly became one of my all-time favourite incarnations of The Master, thanks to consistently inspired performances from Michelle Gomez, coupled with on-screen chemistry with Peter Capaldi and strong writing. Very little of that has translated from screen to comic page, however; Missy serves as little more than a tour guide in this pedantic tale that sees her and the 'Delgado Master' re-visit previous iconic moments in 'Doctor Who' televised history. While the end goal is to obtain a fragment of the Key To Time, the journey to doing so may qualify as 'fan service' for dedicated Whovians who fondly recall those previous TV moments, but nothing new is provided.
The cardinal sin to me as a comic fanboy is that the advance hype for this series promised much and under-delivered greatly. Whovians were strongly led to believe this story would feature a 'team-up' of the Third and Twelfth Doctors to prevent a universe-threatening scheme from the 'Delgado Master' and Missy. Nothing was farther from the truth. Not only do the respective Doctors not encounter one another whatsoever, but Missy's entire journey was in fact set into motion 'by' the Twelfth Doctor, who supervises from behind the scenes. While in keeping with the timeline during a period when Missy was attempting to 'prove herself' to this Doctor, it is a massive let-down for readers who were led to believe this story would feature a multi-Doctor team-up; after all, with zero restrictions in terms of scope and imagination as a comic, why 'wouldn't' Houser write such a tale? Why deprive fans who paid for this story of such a unique team-up of a well-loved Classic Doctor with a 'New Series' Doctor?
Overall, the artwork is crisp and clean, as is usually the case with Roberta Ingranata's work in the Whoniverse. Still preferring to render facial details only in sharp focus and leaving the various backgrounds blurry and indistinct is an observed fault of her art, but on the whole it is quite good. The 'UNIT HQ' scenery is however not period-authentic. While yes, this is a comic and therefore it is capable of anything visually dynamic, the loss of a multi-Doctor team-up is not adequately made up for by rendering the 1970's-era UNIT technology as 'so' high-tech that there is flat-screen TV's and 'Star Trek'-style corridors. Simply put, this was an element that didn't 'need' to be updated for modern audiences, because the charm of the Third Doctor's era is the very 70's bric-a-bracc lying around. Those scenes do not 'feel' like they are taking place in the era old-school fans are so familiar with, because adding modern 21st century tech makes it too anachronistic.
As a tribute story to celebrate 50 years of the Master character, this barely works. Instead of a balls-to-the-wall, over-the-top, universe-shattering story that sees two different but iconic versions of the character battle their respective arch-enemies, it is instead a drawn-out and rather boring story full of puns and put-downs between two Masters. Quite a disappointment.
June 24, 2023
In terms of the artwork, this was an almost perfect comic. Missy and the Delgado!Master looked like they stepped right from the tv screen and onto the page, and so did the Twelfth Doctor. However, the Third Doctor didn't quite look right. I think the dimensions of his head and hair were just a tad off and it made him look cartoonish. I did like the one panel of Jo we got to see (no dialogue from her, just a brief appearance) and the brief looks at iconic characters such as the Brigadier and River Song. I'm not entirely sure who the random soldier was supposed to be because if it was meant to be one of the main UNIT faces such as Benton or Yates, then they didn't draw him particularly well.
I enjoyed the nods to other Doctor Who stories -- we see the two forms of the Master traveling backward through time from Twelfth Doctor era stories down through End of Time and then backward through the Eighth Doctor movie and the Ainley!Master era (though these are covered in less than one panel). And why are they traveling together? They're searching for a fragment of The Key to Time (a popular Fourth Doctor full series arc).
Where the story goes wrong is that there really isn't a story. We're never told why the Twelfth Doctor and Missy are looking for this fragment nor do we actually see how the Delgado!Master is supposed to help them find it. And while I enjoy the adventure for what it is -- a Master centric romp where Missy tries to fool everyone that she's actually the Doctor, to varying degrees of success -- I do wish there was more a story to tie it all together. Because without a solid plot, it's rather forgettable. Especially since we know that within the television canon it wouldn't be too long after this that Missy meets up with the Simm!Master version of herself. In a way, there's a good foreshadowing of both the Simm!Master death and the Missy death in this with all the talk about how the Master will always backstab everyone, even themselves, with no compunction about it.
Also, we even see a bit of Dhawan!Master in this (with a scene taken straight out of Spyfall Pt. 2), and it is confirmed that, as far as the Titan Comics run is concerned, Dhawan!Master falls AFTER Simm!Master and Missy kill each other. Because it's confirmed that Spyfall is a future event for Missy because she had never met the Thirteenth Doctor herself. So, I guess that argument in the fandom has an answer...? At least as far as the comics run is concerned.
A fun limited comic run adventure to celebrate an iconic villain (and my favorite villain of DW). Just know that it's not very deep.
I enjoyed the nods to other Doctor Who stories -- we see the two forms of the Master traveling backward through time from Twelfth Doctor era stories down through End of Time and then backward through the Eighth Doctor movie and the Ainley!Master era (though these are covered in less than one panel). And why are they traveling together? They're searching for a fragment of The Key to Time (a popular Fourth Doctor full series arc).
Where the story goes wrong is that there really isn't a story. We're never told why the Twelfth Doctor and Missy are looking for this fragment nor do we actually see how the Delgado!Master is supposed to help them find it. And while I enjoy the adventure for what it is -- a Master centric romp where Missy tries to fool everyone that she's actually the Doctor, to varying degrees of success -- I do wish there was more a story to tie it all together. Because without a solid plot, it's rather forgettable. Especially since we know that within the television canon it wouldn't be too long after this that Missy meets up with the Simm!Master version of herself. In a way, there's a good foreshadowing of both the Simm!Master death and the Missy death in this with all the talk about how the Master will always backstab everyone, even themselves, with no compunction about it.
Also, we even see a bit of Dhawan!Master in this (with a scene taken straight out of Spyfall Pt. 2), and it is confirmed that, as far as the Titan Comics run is concerned, Dhawan!Master falls AFTER Simm!Master and Missy kill each other. Because it's confirmed that Spyfall is a future event for Missy because she had never met the Thirteenth Doctor herself. So, I guess that argument in the fandom has an answer...? At least as far as the comics run is concerned.
A fun limited comic run adventure to celebrate an iconic villain (and my favorite villain of DW). Just know that it's not very deep.
October 11, 2022
3.5 stars. This one was a little all over the place, but I was definitely sold by Missy's presence and loved that River Song made an appearance as well.
September 24, 2021
Se hace muy corto. El fanservice a veces es demasiado grande, pero ver a Missy de vuelta es una pasada.
November 17, 2021
Missy, pretending to be the Doctor, breaks the original Master out of Stormcage and takes him on a whistle-stop tour of her past, and both of their futures.
The dialogue in this is fantastic. Houser nails Missy's voice easily, and her 'ruse' as 'Doctor Who' is hilarious all the way through. Delgado's Master works as a perfect straight man to her shenanigans, and I'm always a fan of weaving in and out of continuity like this story does.
My issue is that the premise feels flawed. Missy breaks the Master out ostensibly to get his help with something, but then it's never clear if what she wanted was true or not, since we don't see that part of the plot resolved. If it is, then it would have been nice to confirm that one way or the other, and if it's not, then there was no point in her doing what she did in the first place. It's all very strange.
It's only one niggle, but it's such a big one that it hurts the overall impact of the story. Despite perfect characterisation, the foundation of the story is too shaky for it to be as great as it could ahve been.
The dialogue in this is fantastic. Houser nails Missy's voice easily, and her 'ruse' as 'Doctor Who' is hilarious all the way through. Delgado's Master works as a perfect straight man to her shenanigans, and I'm always a fan of weaving in and out of continuity like this story does.
My issue is that the premise feels flawed. Missy breaks the Master out ostensibly to get his help with something, but then it's never clear if what she wanted was true or not, since we don't see that part of the plot resolved. If it is, then it would have been nice to confirm that one way or the other, and if it's not, then there was no point in her doing what she did in the first place. It's all very strange.
It's only one niggle, but it's such a big one that it hurts the overall impact of the story. Despite perfect characterisation, the foundation of the story is too shaky for it to be as great as it could ahve been.
June 4, 2021
love this. Love to see the Delgado Master and it was so much fun seeing Missy's interaction with him.
February 17, 2023
During the last Capaldi season, we had the story of the Doctor "trusting" Missy and trying to see if there was any kind of good in her. This story takes place during that time period, as we see some of the things that she gets up to while in his "care". In this case, trying to find the missing key of time with the help of.... her past self!
This was just a fun romp, and in the vein of the multiple doctor type stories, we get the multiple master type stories. And it worked pretty well in my opinion. Missy trying to be the "good one" as hard as she could (even if she did kinda kill a guy or two) while her past selves are just plain evil was very entertaining to see. It was a tour around the years and incarnations of the master, and it worked out well due to Jody Houser's great writing. She really captured the voice of each character, but especially Missy.
I think this was just good fun, and doesn't really have a lot of depth to it. But it's not really supposed to. It's just a celebration of a character that is a huge part of Doctor Who, and all with using the best incarnation, Missy, to do it. What's there not to like? Highly recommended for fans of Doctor Who.
This was just a fun romp, and in the vein of the multiple doctor type stories, we get the multiple master type stories. And it worked pretty well in my opinion. Missy trying to be the "good one" as hard as she could (even if she did kinda kill a guy or two) while her past selves are just plain evil was very entertaining to see. It was a tour around the years and incarnations of the master, and it worked out well due to Jody Houser's great writing. She really captured the voice of each character, but especially Missy.
I think this was just good fun, and doesn't really have a lot of depth to it. But it's not really supposed to. It's just a celebration of a character that is a huge part of Doctor Who, and all with using the best incarnation, Missy, to do it. What's there not to like? Highly recommended for fans of Doctor Who.
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May 29, 2022Compared to the polyphony of Titan's early Who comics, it does feel a little sad that now there's only one series plus occasional spin-offs, and all of them are written by Jody Houser. Still, she does a good job of it, and I don't just mean better than Chibnall (a standard someone I know recently confirmed even The Twin Dilemma meets). The plot here sees Missy purporting to be the Doctor - or rather Doctor Who - and busting the Delgado Master out of Stormcage for a tour around their timeline. There is an ostensible reason, but it barely matters; this is a character piece, and none the worse for that. It also has a nice line in using Missy's shaky imposture to skewer the lazier tendencies in the series' recent writing: "Pretend I said something enigmatic but morally in the right, confusing but still inspiring somehow. Bit too busy to actually come up with it myself at the moment." Really, the only blemish is Ingranata's art, which leaves the likes of Capaldi and Pertwee - though not, interestingly, Delgado - looking far too fresh-faced.
November 23, 2022
This was a fun romp through the continuity of The Master, showcasing various incarnations including the boy who fought the Time War alongside the War Doctor for a bit. It really works as a 50th anniversary celebration of The Master. The dialogue between Missy and the Roger Delgado Master is so delicious and convincing. I could hear both actors as I read along. There's even an appearance by River Song, which I suppose might be before she meets Missy in Big Finish, though Missy has met her there from her own point of view, I suppose. Missy pretending to be "Doctor Who" seems to place this shortly before "World Enough and Time," and one can tell that she really is trying to be good. Also, more evidence that the Spymaster is a future self from her perspective. Out of the four arcs of this current Doctor Who Comic line from Titan, this one is my favorite.
December 30, 2023
Missy is planning on causing trouble again, and this time she’s breaking the Master out of prison. She convinces the Master that she’s the Doctor, even though she’s actually a future version of the Master. Together they must travel through time to find a key and defeat the Doctor.
This graphic novel was disappointing. Most of it was Missy bickering with the Master, but they are actually the same person. That was a bit of a time paradox, since she shouldn’t have been able to travel back to her own timeline. They talked about finding a key but that plot wasn’t fully explained, so I was left wondering what happened.
Doctor Who Missy: The Master Plan had potential, but was disappointing.
This graphic novel was disappointing. Most of it was Missy bickering with the Master, but they are actually the same person. That was a bit of a time paradox, since she shouldn’t have been able to travel back to her own timeline. They talked about finding a key but that plot wasn’t fully explained, so I was left wondering what happened.
Doctor Who Missy: The Master Plan had potential, but was disappointing.
February 17, 2023
Did anyone really think Missy was The Doctor?
Was anyone else bothered by the fact that fake Doctor/Missy was referring to themselves as Doctor Who?
The trip down memory lane was great fanservice and the art was on point as always but this story simply didn't work for me.
ESPECIALLY when River meets up with Missy & The Master. Do you think for one second I believed that she wouldn't know Missy WASN'T The Doctor? It always bothered me that it took her forever to see 12 in Husbands of River Song so this scene definitely irked me.
Wanted to love this but I just didn't.
Was anyone else bothered by the fact that fake Doctor/Missy was referring to themselves as Doctor Who?
The trip down memory lane was great fanservice and the art was on point as always but this story simply didn't work for me.
ESPECIALLY when River meets up with Missy & The Master. Do you think for one second I believed that she wouldn't know Missy WASN'T The Doctor? It always bothered me that it took her forever to see 12 in Husbands of River Song so this scene definitely irked me.
Wanted to love this but I just didn't.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 6, 2023
This is a very nice portrayal of the late-twelve-era Missy, and it also ties that in to the Master's history all the way from Delgado to Dhawan. All around, very nice continuity throughout the entire history of Doctor Who.
But there's almost no story here. There's a largely pointless MacGuffin quest that doesn't pretend to be much more. It would have been nice to have a story with more teeth given the quality of the backstory.
But there's almost no story here. There's a largely pointless MacGuffin quest that doesn't pretend to be much more. It would have been nice to have a story with more teeth given the quality of the backstory.
February 14, 2022
Taking place sometime during Series 10, this sees Missy break the Delgado Master out of Stormcage to help hunt down a key to the Key to Time (I think that's what she was hunting). While it's kinda pointless since she just ends up handing it over to the Twelfth Doctor as part of her redemption arc, it was a lot of fun to see the two Masters interact and jump around their timeline. Really, the entire point of this is to have a fun Missy comic celebrating the 50th anniversary of the character (who first appeared in "Terror of the Autons" in January 1971). The art's good and while the story is just kinda fluff plot-wise, it's really fun fluff and therefore totally worth reading if you're a fan of the character.
November 22, 2021
For a celebratory 50th anniversary story dedicated to the Master, it was pretty boring. I appreciated the call backs to previous Doctor Who episodes and characters, but as I've mentioned before, these types of stories do not translate well into the graphic novel format.
December 30, 2022
Ah, Missy... my favorite incarnation of the Master! I enjoyed the interplay between her and the Master of my youth (in reruns on PBS), as played by Roger Delgado. The author added some River Song in the mix, too, and I'm a happy girl indeed!
October 31, 2021
Missy will probably always be my favorite Master.
November 2, 2021
Ably captures the voices of the characters, but the story doesn’t go anywhere.
November 6, 2021
I loved this! It was so much fun and as always wonderful writing by Jody and beautiful artwork by Roberta and Enrica.
January 14, 2022
Nice to see the references to past incarnations of the Master, but so much more could have been done within this media
January 24, 2022
I loved the mix of the old and the new (it's always good to see the familiar faces and have them woven through a good Doctor Who story).
March 12, 2022
5 for the artwork and 3 for the writing so ^^^
April 6, 2022
This was a fun fan servicey read with lots of show callbacks and cameos. A good time!
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