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.