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Released

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Written by

Scott Gray

Artist(s)

John Ross

Colourist(s)

James Offredi

Letterer(s)

Roger Langridge

Publisher

Panini Comics

Pages

50

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Venus, Segonus IV, Catastrophia

Synopsis

A sinister figure is terrorising the galaxy - and her name is the Doctor! A confrontation on Venus hurls the Doctor and Graham into a cold, dark world ruled by the one enemy even she can't defeat..

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Such a great comic. It delves masterfully into the duality at the hearts of all Doctors - and especially this one - while giving the TARDIS team interesting things to do. I think Ryan shines most here, arguably more than he ever did on TV, but Yaz is also once again characterised by her deep love and concern for 13. I love that she is the one to convince the others to get out of the TARDIS and help 13 against her will.

This story builds upon the previous issues, and upon the Dogbolter family, created by Steve Parkhouse in the 80s for the Fifth and Sixth Doctors' comics. This gives the DWM comic strip some nice internal continuity. The epic scale of the story and the parts in the Catastrophia also echo the Eighth Doctor's story The Glorious Dead, which was written by the same author as this one - Scott Gray.

Finally, Mother G - a mysterious but helpful figure who had cameoed in every story up to this one and finally gets to play a bigger role - is a great idea for a character, and I hope she gets brought back at some point.


znutibaker

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I’m am so impressed with Scott Gray’s run of DWM 13 comics. These four stories are some of the most cohesive and compelling Dr Who I have ever seen, and I will be revisiting it many times I believe. This finale story, Mistress of Chaos brings it all together. I do believe Yaz gets a little sidelined in this adventure, but it’s such a big one with so many moving parts. If THIS was on TV, I know it would be beloved and 13 would be remembered as one of the greats, because her Doctor in particular really shines. We see her very darkest hour and how she can flip on a dime to become the Oncoming Storm. The villain reflects this brilliantly, and is now one of my all time favorite Who baddies. I don’t know, I could gush all day long. I had so much fun with this story, and I could not recommend it enough to anyone who can get their hands on it.


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To date this is probably the only Thirteenth Doctor story I'd put amongst some of Doctor Who's top tier level stories. We'll see if Big Finish can make up for lost years but for now this is definitely the best I've come across from the Thirteenth Doctor, to the surprise of no one it's another Scott Gray banger that once again draws on several events from the preceding comics to create an epic finale with some fantastic artwork. The story does an excellent job exploring the Doctor's duality and has a great theme on the Doctor's works being distorted to villanise her in the eyes of the public through a series of fake news stories. Rather similar at the time to how the reactionary culture tried to exaggerate the Thirteenth Doctor era to such an extreme negative and make the people involved out to be the worst people in the world when in reality it's quite a different story. Scott Gray managed to handle this approach better than any other writer in the last few years.


DanDunn

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Some of the best work for the 13th Doctor, really exploring her darker side, which was explored really well here to add depth to her character. Bringing together some preceding stories worked fantastically, with Chaos providing a great villain.


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