17 January 2022

Doctor Who: Vortex Butterflies by Nick Abadzis, Giorgia Sposito, Iolanda Zanfardino, et al.

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor: Facing Fate, Vol 2: Vortex Butterflies
 
Collection published: 2018
Contents originally published: 2017
Read: September 2021

Writer: Nick Abadzis
Artists:
Giorgia Sposito with Arianna Florean & Iolanda Zanfardino
Colorists: Arianna Florean
with Nicola Righi
Letterers: Richard Starkings and Jimmy Betancourt

The uphill climb of The Tenth Doctor continues—so help me, I actually enjoyed this! Every time the action flashed to what "Noob" was doing, my interest plummeted, but aside from that, this was a solid tenth Doctor comic. Unlike previous stories in this series, it keeps the focus on the characters and their emotions, following up on the emotional fall-out from the pretty intense things that the tenth Doctor, Gabby, and Cindy have gone through; the appearance of Sarah Jane Smith could be gratuitous, but is a perfect grace note here, too. There's a strong sense of increasing desperation as events escalate (some Titan storylines are pretty badly paced but not this one), and the way the imagery of the Jon Pertwee title sequence is used is pretty damn clever. I am excited to see where this series wraps up in the next volume.

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 Twelfth Doctor: The Wolves of Winter

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