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Released

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Written by

Tony Lee

Artist(s)

Matthew Dow Smith

Cover Art by

Matthew Dow Smith

Colourist(s)

Charlie Kirchoff

Publisher

IDW Publishing

Pages

100

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Fixed point in time

Inventory (Potential Spoilers!)

Sanctuary Base 6 space suit

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Unnamed planet

Synopsis

On a war-ravaged alien world, the Doctor and Emily fight to save Matthew from the Advocate, while avoiding a planetwide civil war and a space-and-time misplaced Edwardian Torchwood, still hunting the Doctor since The Time Machination ! Everything leads to this point — but who will die?

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This final chapter in Emily Winter and Matthew Finnegan’s travels with the Doctor is staggeringly ambitious and detail-oriented. Though this IDW run has been relatively brief, these characters have earned my genuine emotional investment. The story isn’t flawless - it concludes with considerable narrative hand-waving, particularly Matthew’s transformation into a mythical catalyst, laden with callbacks to earlier events which don’t feel naturally seeded.

Yet the drama remains compelling, delivering a thrilling, fun journey. The Terror Firma / Sol 3 revelation - where communities have evolved into the “terror farmers” and “soul-free” groups - feels overly familiar. The concept of a society regressing from scientific sophistication to primitive detachment, with terms changing over time echoes themes in The Doctor’s Daughter and The Face of Evil.

Despite these critiques, the comic is a monumental achievement. The creative team’s ambition shines, particularly in weaving Winter and Finnegan’s arc into the Doctor Who universe. This run of comics - imperfect but bold - leaves me deeply grateful to have experienced it.


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