23 June 2021

Review: Doctor Who: Gaze of the Medusa by Gordon Rennie & Emma Beeby and Brian Williamson

Collection published: 2017
Contents originally published: 2016
Acquired: September 2018
Read: April 2021

Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor, Vol 1: Gaze of the Medusa

Writers: Gordon Rennie & Emma Beeby
Artist:
Brian Williamson
Letters: Richard Starkings and Jimmy Betancourt

The first and only volume of Titan's Fourth Doctor comic is very much a Hinchcliffe-era pastiche: this is sort of The Talons of Weng-Chiang crossed with Pyramids of Mars. Unfortunately, it feels very plodding: lots of wandering around in caves, and not very interesting guest characters, and the by-now-usual kind of time paradoxes. This pure pastiche might do it for someone else, but it feels like a particularly banal Big Finish fourth Doctor adventure, like one of those Philip Hinchcliffe/Marc Platt collaborations.

I read an issue of Titan's Doctor Who comic every day (except when I have hard-copy comics to read). Next up in sequence: The Ninth Doctor: Doctormania

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