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“DAY OF THE DOCTOR(S)!”

Multi-Doctor stories are always great fun, and Paul Cornell brings one of them for the Titan Comics line, bringing together Doctors Ten to Twelve as well as a couple of cameos from other incarnations to defeat a universe-shattering threat together.

Right off the bat, Cornell opens the story on Marinus (see The Keys of Marinus, 1964) during the Time War and introduces a cool new redesign of the Voord (it’s about time!). He then finishes the first issue by bringing back his own monsters, the Reapers (see Father's Day, 2005).

We learn by the end of issue 2 that the cool Voord are the baddies here, and I'm all in for it. They end up slighly underused, and their new abilities make them almost unrecognisable, but they are undoubtedly cool.

Further on, Cornell continues to throw in new ideas and take left turns as an excuse to play around with alternate timelines while referencing New Who. This is also where things turn very convoluted.

After two breezy and fun issues, the third and fourth are a bit heavier and less fun.

What makes this story exciting is that it is likely the only time we'll see the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor in a story together, given that Peter Capaldi isn’t very keen on returning to the role himself. It's also fun to see this as a take on The Day of the Doctor (2013) in the Titan continuity, with two original Titan companions (Gabby for Ten and Alice for Eleven).

And sure enough, Cornell goes all in on the typical bicker and banter between the Doctors. He doesn't simply redo what Moffat did with Ten and Eleven in the 50th and adds a characteristically grumpy Twelve that I could easily imagine Capaldi playing.

It's fascinating how Cornell builds most of the story around a possible future version of Twelve (a sort of Valeyard), had things gone down very differently for him.

This is constantly action-packed and fun, and it flies by instantly. Most of it is action, followed by comical banter and very little introspection or actual fleshing out of the plot—but that's fine because it's all fun.

The art is fine, but the faces aren't always accurate, especially on Tennant and Smith.

A nice little nod to the fantastic Ninth Doctor there at the end!