📝6.0 = SLIGHTLY ENJOYABLE!

Thworping through time and space, one adventure at a time!

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: “THE MEDICINE MAN”

This story takes us back to the Stone Age, where we meet a Neanderthal shaman who agrees to nurse an unconscious Doctor back to life. I like how these cave people are shown to be intelligent in their own way—knowing how to hunt, tend to wounds, and be artistic.

Soon enough, we have an alien invasion story in the Stone Age, complete with traditional flying saucers and a group of ragtag aliens who've gathered together to fight the Monaxi and prevent them from destroying the Earth.

We follow the story from Munmeth’s POV, and when Gabby uses words he's not familiar with, they've been cleverly scratched out from the speech balloons. There are a few panels that repeat the same scene: how it really plays out and how the TARDIS translated it to Munmeth.

I like the discussion on the doomed fate of the Neanderthals. It seems like a classic theme in stories featuring them; see Ghostlight and Timewyrn: Genesis.

I'm a bit tired of these new alien baddies who turn out to be old foes of the Time Lords. It happens all the time in the Titan comics. The Monaxi here are no exception, even if we get a good climax with them.

The cliffhanger ending is certainly intriguing!