30 October 2018

Review: Doctor Who: Helana and the Beast by Justin Richards

Hardcover, 37 pages
Published 2016 (originally 2015)

Acquired February 2017
Read August 2017
Doctor Who: Helana and the Beast
by Justin Richards
illustrated by David Wardle

The quality of these "Time Lord Fairy Tales" seems to vary pretty heavily to me, but they're probably really all about the same. I mean, they are all by the same guy and pretty much doing the same thing. I found this "Beauty and the Beast" riff one of the weaker efforts, a pretty ho-hum take on the original that makes Helana even less of an agent than Beauty was in the original story, basically just chilling out until the twelfth Doctor saves her and the Beast. But then she marries the Beast for some reason?

Next Week: Everyone's favorite aliens in Andiba and the Four Slitheen!

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