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Daleks: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection
- GenresDoctor Who
164 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2022
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March 24, 2023
A real blast from the past, with old comics in one volume, nicely presented with some behind the scenes info. I'm just waiting for the Beep the Meep retrospective! It was a shame they killed off Daak's gang as soon as it was put together, so maybe it's time for a retrospective story telling us of their exploits?
May 6, 2024
It's always fun to see how dark and weird the doctor who comics can get, and the sheer range of creative and structural freedom they have in comparison with other EU formats.
My favorites were: The Dogs of Doom, which felt very much like a plausible Hinchcliffe era gothic and captured Tom Baker's charismatic mania perfectly. The Star Tigers: Which embraces all of the over the top 80s puerile cheesy charm but elevates it beyond the fringing of a bland love interest and uses a brilliant ensemble cast. And finally, Metamorphosis - the brevity of these strips hindered a few of them, especially the first Absolom Daak one which has as stereotypically tropey a backstory as you can get. But Metamorphosis was economically tight and nasty, and both 7th Doctor stories here captured the melancholy behind the character's manipulations which often feels neglected in EU and post era material.
I feel these stories worked incidentally to the Daleks, who never themselves felt like the most genuine or genuinely entertaining threat despite the more explicit body horror in the comics.They rely a bit too much on various minions to be interesting. I want to look at the cybermen stories next because I feel like there's plenty of good stories that happen to have Daleks in that aren't centered on them whereas stories featuring the Cybermen have to focus on them to be good quality.
My favorites were: The Dogs of Doom, which felt very much like a plausible Hinchcliffe era gothic and captured Tom Baker's charismatic mania perfectly. The Star Tigers: Which embraces all of the over the top 80s puerile cheesy charm but elevates it beyond the fringing of a bland love interest and uses a brilliant ensemble cast. And finally, Metamorphosis - the brevity of these strips hindered a few of them, especially the first Absolom Daak one which has as stereotypically tropey a backstory as you can get. But Metamorphosis was economically tight and nasty, and both 7th Doctor stories here captured the melancholy behind the character's manipulations which often feels neglected in EU and post era material.
I feel these stories worked incidentally to the Daleks, who never themselves felt like the most genuine or genuinely entertaining threat despite the more explicit body horror in the comics.They rely a bit too much on various minions to be interesting. I want to look at the cybermen stories next because I feel like there's plenty of good stories that happen to have Daleks in that aren't centered on them whereas stories featuring the Cybermen have to focus on them to be good quality.
July 7, 2025
This is the first of two Doctor Who graphic novels which contain the adventures of the Daleks in Doctor Who Magazine. There's a bit of a wide range - my favourite stories are the ones centred around Absom Daak for how much of an entertainingly cheesy 80s anti-hero he is (seeing as his comic career never really took off, it's a pity that we don't get much of his crew outside of "Star Tigers" and Absom's two appearances with the Seventh Doctor) and "Metamorphosis" for the body horror of turning babies into dalek/human hybrids (before "Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks" made it cool. Again considering "The Evil of the Daleks").
The others are decent enough, but the Daleks do tend to take backstage in favour of their minons - ""The Dog of Doom" was the worst of it, but it's there in "Return of the Daleks" as well - a bit of a shame seeing the body horror that is sometimes prevalent.
The others are decent enough, but the Daleks do tend to take backstage in favour of their minons - ""The Dog of Doom" was the worst of it, but it's there in "Return of the Daleks" as well - a bit of a shame seeing the body horror that is sometimes prevalent.
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