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“VIRTUALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE: A BRASH, BANTERY, AND BARELY-THERE SIXIE ESCAPE ROOM”

Virtually Indestructible tries to deliver a punchy, self-contained tale set entirely within the TARDIS—and while it does manage to capture the familiar flavour of the Sixth Doctor and Peri’s prickly rapport, the story itself barely leaves a mark. With an alien race crashing the party, the plot boils down to a classic case of locked-in-with-an-enemy tension, liberally coated in technobabble.

SIXIE IN HIS ELEMENT (SORT OF)

Colin Baker’s Doctor is undeniably the best thing here. He’s gloriously verbose, blustering about with multisyllabic flair and that familiar blend of arrogance and ingenuity. If nothing else, Virtually Indestructible understands his voice well—he’s a rainbow-coated thesaurus on legs, and his dynamic with Peri is right out of the mid-‘80s playbook: eye-rolls, exasperation, and the odd flash of genuine fondness.

PERI GETS A WIN (KIND OF)

Peri at least gets to do something here—playing the role of the sharp-thinking assistant who helps the Doctor piece together a solution. It’s a small mercy in a story that could’ve easily sidelined her. Her rapport with Six remains the core of the piece, and it’s enjoyable to hear that bickering warmth come through, even in a thin script.

ALIEN RACE? MORE LIKE RACE-LESS VILLAINY

Unfortunately, the alien antagonist is pure cardboard. The script offers almost no insight into their motivation or identity, other than vague menace and a role as a plot obstacle. This kind of enemy might work in a faster-paced TV serial with visual flair and tension, but here they’re just a background noise to Six and Peri’s banter.

TECHNOBABBLE TREADMILL

The story leans far too heavily on technobabble to keep itself going. Dialogue spins in circles of quantum hyperfluxes and dimensional vortex displacements without ever really raising the stakes. It becomes a pseudo-scientific word salad, with the occasional “ah-ha!” moment that barely feels earned.

ART THAT POPS, EVEN IF THE STORY DOESN’T

The saving grace? The artwork. It’s got a clean, vivid style that gives the cramped TARDIS setting a bit of visual flair, and it does a nice job of capturing the likenesses of Six and Peri. It won’t revolutionise comic art, but it’s polished and pleasing to the eye.

📝VERDICT: 5/10

Virtually Indestructible is a story that lives up to its name—only in the sense that it stubbornly persists, despite not having much to offer. While it gets the Doctor and Peri’s dynamic right and looks rather nice on the page, it’s ultimately a shallow, technobabble-heavy runaround with an unmemorable villain and no real stakes. Fun for Sixie fans who just want a bit of old-school bickering, but it’s not going to linger in the memory for long.

Literally nothing happens here. It’s about nothing. Sorry, not even gonna slightly analyze it. Drawings are okayish, faces look off, colours are really great and popping and bright colours stand out without being grating and I think it looks really good. The rest is more rubbish from Dinnick, sorry again.

Actually okay look after a few more seconds of thinking, I think the fact that it’s about the Doctor helping refugees is maybe worth something but not more than a mention.