Doctor Who Classics Volume 9

This collects and colorizes several stories from Doctor Who Magazine:In Time and TIde, the Doctor arrives on a doomed continent on an alient world where the inhabitants treat life as worthless because they know they're doomed. The Doctor has a plan to escape even though he's lost the TARDIS. There's only one person who seems interested and faces a tough choice. The art is good, and the story has a nice Noah vibe. Grade: C+In Follow that TARDIS, two hoods who happen to be in pursuit of the Meddling Monk hitch a ride on the TARDIS to catch them, and they chase him throughout history and the thugs create all sorts of complications for the Doctor. It has some funny moments, but not enough to make it anything more than a throwaway story. Grade: CInvasders from Gantac is a bog-standard story in which aliens have invaded present-day Earth. Their gimmick is that they do everything according to preassigned "orders." The Doctor knows something they don't though. The story has one redeeming grace, the homeless character named Leapy. He makes the story worth reading and is very well-written, enough to cover the general saminess of the story. Grade: C+In Nemesis of the Daleks, after appearing in several back-up features, Absalom Daak comes face to face with the Doctor and they're forced to join forces in order to stop the Daleks. Daak is a great character and even though I 've not read his prior stories, this was easy to get into and understand his origin. At times, he feels like he's the main character. The story features some of the best art of the McCoy-era comic stripes. A very strong installment. Grade: Bin Stairway to Heaven, the Doctor meets a strange creature and stumbles into another one and begins a journey through to find out what's going on. He soon learns it's an appalling experiment and is determined to give those responsible what for. This is a very preacher story. It was told in a single issue and really , in those preachyness should be kept to a minimum. I can't help but think this would have been better if this had been a three-part story where the mystery built and the actual perpetrator not identified until the final part. As it is, the ration of preachyness doesn't work and the casual reader doesn't care about events , Grade: CHunger from the End of Time is a non-entity of a Doctor Who story. The Doctor lands on a space station, there's a monster, and he gets involved for the hunt for it. It runs for two issues and that's pretty much it. The monster does look interesting, but is just not given a good story or anything interesting to do. Grade: C-The Doctor meets up with Sarah Jane and he pledges to take her to a concert. Instead, they find themselves involved in an alien plot on a strange train. Sarah Jane Smith is nice to see and is very well-drawn, but she has no ties to this alien and the story gives her few opportunities to impact the plot. She does have a nice conversation with the Doctor that's a good character moment, but that's not enough to justify the length or her inclusion. I love Sarah Jane, but I'd love it more if she actually impacted the story. Grade: CSo overall, despite having a few good guest stars, this book collects some hit and miss comics. The only really good story was Nemesis of the Daleks, but even in Black and White, the Panini collection may be better for collecting all the Daak stories.Overall, a weak collection to end this reprint series.

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Oh dear. What we have here are some of the worst Doctor Who comic strips ever published - and given that the comics have been running over fifty years, that's saying something.Raging in tone from Beano-esque japes and visual gags, to a Dalek-fighting version of Arnold Schwarzenegger, these stories utterly miss the spirit and tone of Doctor Who. Sylvester McCoy's Doctor is unrecognisable in character, and often in the artwork as well. Too often this generic Doctor barely has anything to do with the resolution of the plot either.These comics are largely a waste of time, produced as filler for a magazine decades ago, and should be left as such.The greatest Doctor Who comics are those featuring the Sixth Doctor, and included in Doctor Who Classics volume eight. They have imagination, wonderful artwork, and great characters. The stories in volume nine have none of those.