Thursday, October 11, 2012

Doctor Who #1



As quirky, oddball and inventive as the Doctor Who British TV series is it is difficult to translate it to a comic book.  Many have tried but they just miss it by a smidgen-until now.

Writer Andy Diggle and artist Mark Buckingham have successfully translated the Doctor to 2D in their new series from IDW.

In the first issue, Doctor Who travels to Victorian times with Amy and Rory.  While there they come across a fake medium and her inventor husband.

It seems she can read minds and has somehow tapped into an alien voice that instructs her on drawing an alien device which her husband builds.  They have sunk all of their money into it and now the device languishes in the Crystal Palace exposition.

When a guard passes by the machine it activates and he is frozen in time.  Coincidentally the Doctor, Rory and Amy are visiting the Palace and find the guard frozen in mid-air, stationary in time.

The Doctor investigates and discovers that the energy from his Tardis has activated the machine, just as Rory is attacked from a creature emerges from the machine’s large viewing screen.

I felt as if I were watching a Doctor Who episode and I plan on following the Doctor’s new printed adventures as long as the new creative team stays on.