The Widow’s Curse

You can tell that the team behind this comic have a great love for The Walking Dead comic series. The loving homage to this in the art style is so spot on that it almost acts as a crossover event.

It’s very rare that a comic lives in your memory like this one. I read it back in 2008 and it stayed with me. It satisfyingly inserts itself into the cannon, acting as a sequel to The Christmas Invasion which betters the original. The male Sycorax die in part one, in TV, the female ones come for revenge in part two, in the comic. It takes an enemy that was somewhat interesting and perfects them.

I would love to see it adapted for the screen, given the female’s plan is more brilliant and compelling than their male counterparts. There is so much about it that if given a bit of budget it would do very well. Doctor Who has never properly done “zombies” before.

The Doctor and Donna are brilliant. I complained in my last comic review that there were too many “quips”, but happily the jokey comments in this story feel more in line with the TV series. It has a fun action adventure vibe without coming off as flippant.

This plot mixed with the original art style makes it a very unique piece of Doctor Who.