Everyone expected a stealth prequel to a back-up comic strip from 1980, right? This used the six pages effectively, giving the Doctor a mystery to solve and a good enemy to go up against. The art was fantastic too. I'm ready for a longer strip with Belinda next though.

The economy of writing is impressive, the fact that Alan Barnes can even develop a story of this scope given such a low page count. The big shift in narrative every page though does mean that you don’t get a chance to probe too deeply into the brilliant outline of a story presented. The technobabble solution of The Doctor in taking down the planet’s big bad is a symptom of not having enough space to do more!

Yet another kind of medicore DWM comic strip. 6 pages is just not enough to tell a complete story in the form of a comic strip. This strip has some interesting ideas but is just not long enough to explore any of them in depth. Maybe I'd emjoy it more if I was familiar with the old DWM strip that this is a prequel to. The art is nice as always.

An enjoyable read, that flicks through, but with little chance to strongly develop. Great interesting concepts, which I would have loved to have seen some more depth for, and love this call back for an earlier comic too. Some wonderful art throughout this story as well.

Interesting it’s a quick read probs not the best of the alone 15 dwm stories however I like how apparently it connect to a dwm story from the 70s