This is it! Back in November 2019, I began reading my way through the contents of two Humble Bundles of Titan's Doctor Who comic that I had acquired. Once I exhausted those, I kept going, mostly using Hoopla to borrow the comics digitally through my local library. Thirty months and fifty-four installments later, I am finally all caught up! There's more to come (and some of that will have come out by the time this is posted), such as a series of specials by Dan Slott and a Doctor Who Origins miniseries about the "fugitive" Doctor, but as of this writing, Empire of the Wolf is Titan's most recent Doctor Who story, and there is nowhere else to go.
Doctor Who: Empire of the Wolf
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Collection published: 2022 Contents published: 2021-22 Read: May 2022 |
Vol. 3 of Doctor Who Comic is an odd beast. It's a sequel of sorts to Alternating Current: that tenth/thirteenth Doctor crossover introduced a Rose Tyler from an alternate universe where Earth was occupied by the Sea Devils. The alternate Rose was a resistance leader, and at the end of that story, the tenth Doctor dropped her off on a planet in our universe that could use her help. It's also a follow-up to "Doomsday": our universe's Rose is also in the story. She's been living on Pete's World long enough, married to the "metacrisis" Doctor, to have a teenage daughter. The other Doctor and Mia are only cameos, because Rose is pulled back into our universe due to some kind of temporal shenanigans that I didn't feel were ever really explained.
But this story doesn't feature the tenth Doctor... instead it features, for some reason, the eighth and the eleventh. I don't know why. There's not two Doctors worth of stuff to do, and the story doesn't do anything interesting with its multi-Doctor premise. (But then, has any Titan multi-Doctor story?) Did anyone want to see two different Roses interact with the eleventh and eighth Doctors? Why would they? The Sea Devil–Earth Rose has a decent story, but the Pete's World Rose could pretty much be any companion, except for a very brief sequence where she has to pretend to be the other Rose. Lots of flash, but like so many Jody Houser and Roberta Ingranata Doctor Who comics, it seems to have nothing to say.
My next daily comic feature will be: The Wicked + The Divine
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