The Neverwhen closes the second volume of The War Doctor Adventures where the Doctor is flung into one of the earliest skirmishes of the Time War, a planet where Daleks and Time Lords clashed in a straight up battle but fell victim to a new Time Lord weapon called the Neverwhen. A weapon that has sealed them off from the rest of the universe where both sides are subjected to various degrees of evolution in their species and technology, and death provides no escape as the casualties are brought back to life and all are forced to fight an endless battle for all eternity.

Now when it comes to “the horrors of the Time War”, that’s pretty high up in terms of one of the worst events to be portrayed from the Time War, the idea of being trapped in a never-ending battle where yourself and your weapons change various states and death just sends you back to the beginning to fight all over again is terrifying. The Neverwhen makes good on delivering such a horrific setting and how it affects the War Doctor. If there’s any War Doctor story from John Hurt’s tragically short tenure you should listen to make it this one.