Oh dear. 

Descendance, the second story in the Radio Times Eight Doctor comics, is very, very boring. 

Good Doctor Who is not supposed to be boring. 

Good comics are not supposed to be boring. 

This strip is not boring in the sense of nothing much happening, but boring as in it’s basically just a load of mind-numbing Ice Warrior politics. 

I also struggled to actually understand what was happening. This is not one of those stories that are meant to confuse, it is just badly written. 

This is all such a shame, as I usually enjoy Alan Barnes’ stories.  

Not this one. 

It is terrible. 

Like the previous installment, Dreadnought, the art is the only thing saving this story. 

The comic ends with a cliffhanger, which means I’ll have to read the next strip, Ascendence.  

Oh dear.