Disclaimer: This is the last in a series of reviews. If you want the full EPIC experience, you should probably go to the next story in this set. The one about skulls and the first doctor. Yeah that one. Read my words from there on, and continue to the next one to see me progress into insanity. Once you’ve gotten to the last one with the Twelfth Doctor and Daleks, come back here. Okay? Okay. You’ve done that? Then let’s begin.

So, imagine you’re me, or anyone who’s been reading this. Maybe that’s you, maybe you’ve been reading this, imagine you’re you. You’ve gone through whatever that was supposed to be. But there did seem to be at least a thematic running thread. Each short mini ‘story’ was about a part of the Doctor’s character. 1st was about seeing the good in things, 2nd was about… Oh, there falls your theory in the water already. But it at least felt like that must’ve been it. That each short thingything had something to say. And now, in the end, the Doctor realizes all of this, and she declares to herself in her head, that indeed, she is the Doctor, she was kind and cruel and cowardly and now she’s who she is or something cheesy like that. It’ll be stupid probably, considering what has come before, but you can at least see how this will turn out, even if it’s a bit simple and easy, but like, you know, it will have been a fun ride. All those little things, together they have at least made for an… enjoyable. experience, yes! In the end it has. When the frame story thematically ties them all together, it will at least have felt worth it. And then it doesn’t do that.

Look in the end I will still give this release in it’s entirety probably a 3,5/5, because it had enjoyable parts to it, and the sum of it all makes of it, and that there were multiple positives, and it’s been good. Sort of. Kind of. Technically. Maybe. But this is not a competent release. This is barely anything at all. A frame story that is just a repeat of scenes on tv, isn’t even really a story at all, and it’s framing for ‘stories’ in quotation marks. If you ask me, this isn’t a comic book, and should not actually make it as the sort of release that it is. You could put these short stories in other publications as little extra harmless treats, and then, for the fans of those stories, have this omnibus, so they can have it together. But as a standalone product it doesn’t work. If you’d theoretically ask me.

I’m honestly still just really confused by it. I’ve been writing for almost three hours straight now, and I’m still mostly just confused. Like after all that time writing about it, I don’t feel much different or any less confused than from when I finished reading the thing a few minutes before writing that first review. I don’t know how the American comics climate is (except that it’s bad) but this is such complete nonsense. It feels like such a misleading marketing ploy too. The Thirteenth Doctor that everybody is so excited about is here! Put her on the cover! Put her in the title! And it’s not about her. Everything about it reeks not so nice practices to me. Oh well. I don’t dislike this release, because I’ve found things to appreciate in it, but I also don’t like it, for reasons you can probably understand.

I don’t know how to end this review, and I want to, because it’s becoming a lot, is already a lot, so imagine the tardis crashing and me falling out of it or something. Wee.

The longest story yet, wowzers. Six whole pages! That is pretty cray cray for realz. The absolutely HUMONGOUS page count allows for a lot of meandering. It just takes too long guys, every sentence I was feeling my brain getting distracted by simulating subway servers gameplay and family guy clips. It’s just too long! I’m not reading six whole pages, what, I read Doctor Who for fun not for a school assignment! Philips or whatever his name was, is obviously stretching the page count here so he will get paid more, and so Titan can charge more for the amount of pages. Well! Too bad that is for them, because I actually pirated it anyways. Never let the corporations stop your consumerism guys! Because that’s what they want! Anywaysagain, I’m gonna continue watching Doctor Who via youtube shorts.

If it somehow wasn’t clear yet, I didn’t actually pirate this comic. I got it from humble bundle. Please let my satire stay on this site lol.

Because that’s what this series has boiled down to in the end. They’ve all been mindless short bursts of entertainment packaged in a larger more expensive package. It’s like a 1 hour YouTube compilation of 30 second TikToks. Except with a lot more care and love put into it. Which is of course reflected by the price tag.

The extra pages help the side characters of the little kids get a little bits more exposure, and that’s it. The climax to this story is just something that’s just like that because our writer has decided that that’s the answer. I could repeat the same things again. I’ve gotten a bit tired. I don’t know anymore what to say. Let me do my last yap about art and stuff and then it’s time to move on to the framing device.

Art is okay and so is the colour. Nothing wrong with it. Perfectly fine. There are good things, and also bad things. Low points and high points. The bad parts I didn’t like, and the good parts I did like, because they were either not that good or not that bad. The end.

Another Dinnick referring to his own works, neat!

Story is the same sludge as the other 2/5s I have given in this series. Why Thirteen? Because that’s the holiday this and that that we give to marriage okay River. Reasons that feel like they’re made up at the exact moment they’re needed.

The art isn’t bad per se, but it’s completely unreadable if you’ll allow me the hyperbolics. We’re always way too close, there’s no way to make out what’s happening, and so many panels cut parts off that you feel shouldn’t be. It’s almost more like it was stitched together from a very limited pool of pictures, not drawn for the comic. Completely ridiculous honestly. Maybe there was some artistic intend, but I find more that it’s missing some very basic comic drawing things. Hm. Now that I lay it down like that I might just decrease the score to a 1,5… Well, I’ll see, and you will definitely, reader, because you’re in the future already! Wow! Time travel! Just like in the hit television series Doctor Who!

Aaaaa Gabby and Cindy belovedsss!!!!!

Ahum. Nothing special but a really sweet little tale. I am biased because of the companions, yes. The story isn’t actually good. I just like these guys okay let me be give me this one.

Drawings are lovely the city looks mostly great (if a bit empty) the characters all look good, the colours support the art very well, it’s not actually a good comic, I might just be in a Gabby and Cindy dried up thingy. Every bit of them is precious. Just them doing casual things is nice. I don’t need to build up arguments or something, I don’t have any. Not gonna explain myself actually. I’m giving this three stars because I feel like it at this current moment, and you are not gonna do anything about it! How’s that, huh?

Oh, apparently those Volschi are from a previous Richard Dinnick story, that’s really cool. That they can be portrayed visually now. Sick. Anyways. (yes really this time)

I can see like a line of plot and an idea but the story ends up being a confused mess with the previous stuff happening problems but also made really unintuitive. A factor in that might also be the drawings, because I think they’re really wooden and inconsistent. The colouring is also really unremarkable and flat. Not entirely sure if it fits well with this style.

Great cyberpunky timewar atmosphere, very detailed drawings, cute lore references, actually very charming story. Just that the plot makes no sense, like at all. You know what I’m going to say, I’ve said it before a few times already. No le rhyme no le reason for things le hap’nin’.
Oh the colours I’m mentioning those now each time, not gonna stop now. They’re very good, can be dark and fiery. Often deep, highlights the details in the illustrations very well. Lovely work on that.

My first Josie story and I do like her, so that’s cool good job comic if I didn’t already own them you would’ve done great advertising for your Eight Doctor comics.

I really like the drawings, the staging is super creative, just looking at the pages of our two sillies hanging around on that ship is great fun and the colours are just so calming and nice and accompany them really well.

Story is complete nonsense, things happen just because that’s what the story needs them to do, you know the drill. Probably the worst offender of this yet.

Plot wise among the lowest scoring, but I love the art side and Eight and Josie on a ship is pure vibes so the sins are slightly forgiven.

Look the story might not actually be better than the ones that i rated lower but the Master calls (sorta) the Doctor Theta Sigma and Ace is in armour so I don’t care.

Colours are really nice, even if they’re not helping with the readability of the pages. Drawings are fairly unremarkable with what we’ve seen here so far.

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.

Ah, we couldn’t keep the streak of improvements coming of course. An entire story of things just happening because Richard said so. The bit at the end where the time lord regenerates into a woman and Nyssa asks about it would make it better, if they actually did something with it and didn’t cut off right after. Like c’mon you’ve got a whole five pages for this! The longest story yet! Could’ve at least used that extra one for some interesting or fun back and forth between characters, but instead we have a whole page of “I’m going to declare for no particular reason whatsoever why I’m here, now the Doctor is going to walk to a wall, which will magically turn out to be the entrance because I said so” and then the time lord renegade doing more expository dialogue and saying “hey doctor we should do this” and the doctor saying “hey we should do this” and then they do this and that’s it. Stories like these make me believe I could be a scriptwriter. They’re very motivating.

Very clean drawings, idem with the colouring. The part where Fivey drinks the regeneration juice or whatever he’s supposed to be doing looks pretty neat (and very silly).