The Ninth Doctor #3

'A Day to Yourselves' (2020) from The Wintertime Paradox.

While I'm more and more finding the inclusion of other Doctors a little irksome in stories such as this, this was a good little read. Nine is captured quite well and has a lot of nice moments and chattiness. His ruminations on the Time War and his lack of direction in life is intriguing, and the ending is particularly nice.

The Ninth Doctor #2

'Battle Scars' (2019) from Short Trips - Series 9.

A really fantastic little Nine story that fits in really well with the tone of his televised story. His dynamic with the family is great, Briggs yet again really sells his performance. His mental gymnastics of dealing with the family's Titanic tickets is great and goes well with the character as well. Just all-round a really digestible and recommended audio.

The Ninth Doctor #1

'The Bleeding Heart' (2017) from The Ninth Doctor Chronicles.

After only one televised season and being bound to Earth and its orbit that whole time, having Nine's story begin on a big alien planet was quite fun go experience. I really enjoyed the storytelling and Briggs performance in this - I think it's my introduction to him as well? The reporter companion is nice and has some good moments with Nine. As the plot goes on, however, I began to lose a little interest in what was going on, especially with Rassilon being brought up and everything, but perhaps on a future revisit it'll work better for me there. Not sure if this really served well as a "first Ninth Doctor story" chronologically, but it's a good enough time nonetheless.

The Fifteenth Doctor #17

'Dance Till You Drop' (2025) from Doctor Who Magazine 614.

While it's cute that Doctor Who Magazine host a children's contest to include their monsters or characters into the stories, it simply doesn't result in a very good story with this comic here unfortunately. It's a lacklustre entry to the solo-15 canon, and I wish we could have had a three-or-four-parter during this gap between Season One and Season Two, but the inclusion of this strip here explains that that wasn't possible and instead we'll likely be seeing another one-shot 15 story next month as well.

The Thirteenth Doctor #14

'Gatecrashers' (2019) from The Target Storybook.

Feels like a story that fits in well thematically with Series 11 as well as with other short stories of Thirteen's already. Disconcerting that she really feels like she's killing people left and right though. So tonally jarring for her happy-go-lucky character.

The Thirteenth Doctor #13

'The Witchfinders' (2021) from Target Books.

Again another nice entry into the modern Target novelisations. These two Thirteen novelisations may be my favourite of the nine I've read thus far. Perhaps it's because it's been a couple of years since I saw the episodes, rather than only 6-12 months like for Fourteen and Fifteen. But still, great stuff here. I enjoy all of the additions to the original story and I feel like significant time has been spent with almost each companion.

The Thirteenth Doctor #12

'The Greatest Movie Never Made' (2019) from Doctor Who Adventures Special.

Feel like next to no effort went into this. Very disregardable.

The Thirteenth Doctor #11

'Kerblam!' (2023) from Target Books.

Very pleasantly surprised by this. Although, I was already somewhat of a fan of Series 11 (definitely more than most), so a novelisation of almost any episode from that series would have been a pleasant surprise to me regardless I feel like. I enjoy The Doctor and Yaz, both as individuals and as a couple, a lot more in this as well. They both get some good moments of internal understanding that can clearly only be read into here because it was added after the fact. Still, fun story, with nice additions - although the episode itself is rather far from recent memory now. The Doctor killing somebody towards the end reminded me of moments like Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and Deep Breath. Not sure if it fits with the character they were trying to give Thirteen.

The Thirteenth Doctor #10

'Einstein and the Doctor' (2019) from Star Tales.

A pretty standard Doctor Who historical here, which feels like the sci-fi aspect is kind of stuffed in with the rest of it. Sort of comparable to Vincent and the Doctor here, and not only in name, with Einstein seemingly being a bit crazy (I can't say I know anything really about the real guy), and his fears becoming real-life phantoms harming people in the city, but they're actually ultraviolet jellyfish feeding off of imagination? I enjoy the Graham and Ryan side-story, and the idea of The Doctor almost bumping into a previous incarnation. The Einstein stuff just feels a bit doo-lally and unfocused for me, but it's still firmly Doctor Who.

The Thirteenth Doctor #8

'Where's the Doctor?' (2018) from Doctor Who The Official Annual 2019.

Another story here which doesn't seem to be on Tardis Guide as of yet, and that's unfortunate as it's quite a good one. Mainly because it canonises Queen Elizabeth II as being a great big lizard - aside from that it's more of a collage of all of The Doctor's incarnations all being present for her coronation. Not really much of a focus on Thirteen.

The Thirteenth Doctor #9

'The Rhino of Twenty-Three Strand Street' (2018) from Twelve Angels Weeping.

A nice little story focusing on a young girl in Dublin who comes across a "rhino" hiding in a hologram-protected neighbour's house. Works well as a character study for her and seems to come from a very truthful place, personally relating with me with its seemingly autistic representation. I wish The Doctor was in it more, which I could say about a few of her EU stories so far unfortunately, but her brief appearance towards the end is cute.