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TARDIS Guide

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Released

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Written by

Jody Houser

Publisher

Titan Comics

Pages

44

Synopsis

It is the first full Christmas-themed story to star both the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions (although she had previously appeared alone in the shorter Christmas story 'Twas the Night Before Christmas). Notably, it established that the events of the Free Comic Book Day 2019 story, Meet the Fam!, were in fact a false memory implanted by the story's main villain, Krampus.

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I liked the concept behind it, was a nice mystery as well at the start for sure! Nice to get a 13th Doctor Christmas story too!!


twelvesoswald

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This review contains spoilers!

Starts off with tonnes of intrigue as you are wonder how the events of the previous story have been overwritten in each of the TARDIS team’s mind. As the Krampus and Christmas theme comes into focus, the intriguing aspects of the story start to look increasingly incidental. By the time that The Doctor is pulling a cable which undoes Krampus’ plans any USP the story has is out the window.

What I will say is that it looks beautiful and keeps your attention from front to back.


15thDoctor

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Without the lost memory hook, I’m afraid this adventure would be left feeling a little weak and standard, and since that hook becomes less relevant as the story goes on, so my interest declines slowly. I will say though, it is a very intriguing story at first, and the Doctor and her fam are all written great by Jody Houser yet again


PexLives

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This was really solid, overall. It's not the most complex story and some of the dialogue felt simplistic but I just loved how much character there was to the TARDIS crew. All four felt much more like people compared to the Chibnall era, and combined with creative set pieces and a fun story (at least so in the part), I really enjoyed this take on the Thirteenth Doctor. Roberta Ingrantanta and Enrica Eren Angiolini both really deliver some solid art for this comic. Everything looks beautiful and it really helps make it feel like we are travelling along in space on the TARDIS. I also like the look of "Mr. Henderson" and his nutcracker underlings. They have a lot of personality in their design that makes them stand out really nicely as armed goons. Solid stuff overall and I was left looking forward to part two.

In hindsight though, after reading part two, I can't say this comic and story really went anywhere, which makes this issue a little more pointless.  Issue two is definitely a lot weaker than issue one. I like the artwork still but it is used less creatively, while the writing also has more dialogue that just felt silly and really not that funny. The story just kind of piddles out after some pretty good build-up across the two issues. It's nice the 13th Doctor has a proper Christmas story, at least.


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