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Five Doctor Who magazine comic storylines from the mid-'90s, all of them very much boasting the vibe of the then-current Virgin Missing Adventure novels, with one story apiece for each of the first five Doctors—plus a bonus "one-shot" with the second Doctor from a yearbook of the period.
If I'm honest, most of the stories kind of blur together into a slightly overly violent cyberpunk melange, differentiated only by the garnish: "Victims" is the one with the fourth Doctor and the fashion industry; "The Lunar Stranger" is the one with the fifth Doctor and space cows; and so on. They may not sound similar, but the tone is pretty relentlessly similar. All of them are written by young comic writers, and the notes at the end reveal that for many of them, there was a huge learning curve. Fair enough.
The best of the lot, and probably the only one I would come back to, is Kate Orman's "Change of Mind" (the one with the third Doctor and psychokinesis), where the characters and situations feel very authentic to early 1970s Doctor Who. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's the only one of the six strips without any "future tech." I might be biased, though - when I was a teenager, I had an issue of DWM with the first of three installments of "Change," and I always wanted to know how it ended!
If I'm honest, most of the stories kind of blur together into a slightly overly violent cyberpunk melange, differentiated only by the garnish: "Victims" is the one with the fourth Doctor and the fashion industry; "The Lunar Stranger" is the one with the fifth Doctor and space cows; and so on. They may not sound similar, but the tone is pretty relentlessly similar. All of them are written by young comic writers, and the notes at the end reveal that for many of them, there was a huge learning curve. Fair enough.
The best of the lot, and probably the only one I would come back to, is Kate Orman's "Change of Mind" (the one with the third Doctor and psychokinesis), where the characters and situations feel very authentic to early 1970s Doctor Who. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's the only one of the six strips without any "future tech." I might be biased, though - when I was a teenager, I had an issue of DWM with the first of three installments of "Change," and I always wanted to know how it ended!
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