📝8/10

Thworping through time and space, one adventure at a time!

MY SCATTERED AND TOTALLY IRRELEVANT NOTES:

Another TARDIS-bound story featuring only the main cast, but this one stands out as an intricate and engaging piece. While Alice, the Squire, and Abslom grapple with finding a way out of the TARDIS, the Eleventh Doctor takes some time for himself, reflecting on the alleged crimes he cannot remember committing. The story offers a compelling exploration of the Doctor's inner turmoil, with excellent dialogue and meaningful interactions between the companions. A thoughtful and well-executed character study.

I've said before that I love it when people use a medium to tell a story you couldn't in any other medium and my god The Eleventh Doctor's Titan comics just keep doing it!

Formatting the panels like the front of the TARDIS is genius, especially with the one panel each page of just text in that font. The art in those panels as well is great, the splash pages especially are just brilliant, the one of Squire's memories is a particular standout.

And the plot as well is solid here too, Squire's memories are traumatising for her and build on the mystery of what's going on there. War shows up again with that mysterious child by his side. Abslom Daak gets a great but of characterisation with the full page spread of him holding his wife after hearing Alice say Exterminate. Alice's grief gets shown once again to great effect, and there's something happening to her mind as well, a strange almost mechanical almost angelic creature seemingly tormenting her? The design is incredible and can't wait to find out what's going on with it.

And then there's the scenes with Eleven. The dark and red of the room contrasts the bright greys of the rest of the comic really well (with everyone eventually meeting in the warm yellow of the main console room), him trying to figure out what's happened to his past is great while he's being interrogated by a mystery group. I also appreciate that you can tell from the art what's actually going on before the big reveal, the panels slowly showing more and more of the figures as the story goes on.

Overall a genius bit of comic writing, exposition done perfectly.