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A review by isabellarobinson7
Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Vol. 1: Weapons of Past Destruction by Cavan Scott
4.0
Rating: 4 stars
Man, I just love an Alex X Zhang cover! How did we Whovians get so lucky to have so many!
Lots of pop culture references. I love that Doctor Who does this, because most of the companions are from modern day earth and have access to the same media we do. I kid you not, in another Doctor Who graphic novel Ace was wearing Starfleet earrings. Yep. Star Trek Starfleet. United Federation of Planets Starfleet. Here's my review of that graphic novel where I inserted pictures of said Star Trek earrings.
Speaking of pictures... I may or may not have screenshot all the references in this comic that I recognised. Come on, give me a break. I only have two more weeks worth of Kindle before I'm back to haphazardly describing the images in physical copies or scrounging through sketchy websites (dodging the porn) looking for digital copies. So here are seven of those pop culture references in this book. (They are not spoilery, plus I put them out of chronological order to avoid disclosing anything else about the narrative):
Ah yes. Well done Rose, correct terminology. Come on Doctor, get with it.
I mean, do they or do they not look like one of the bajillion Stormtrooper variants?
Anyone calling anyone "Spock" in any media makes me smile
Trust the American to make the Wizard of Oz reference
I have actually read this book, and I propose its alternate title should be "How To Manipulate People Without It Actually Feeling Like Manipulation"
What is it with Americans and this movie? They act like The Wizard of Oz is the pinnacle of all cinema.
I do have one critique of this comic. It is a bit of Rose, Jack or the Doctor get stuck somewhere “dies” rinse and repeat and doesn't really diverge from this. But there are also robot centaurs so that makes up for it.
Man, I just love an Alex X Zhang cover! How did we Whovians get so lucky to have so many!
Lots of pop culture references. I love that Doctor Who does this, because most of the companions are from modern day earth and have access to the same media we do. I kid you not, in another Doctor Who graphic novel Ace was wearing Starfleet earrings. Yep. Star Trek Starfleet. United Federation of Planets Starfleet. Here's my review of that graphic novel where I inserted pictures of said Star Trek earrings.
Speaking of pictures... I may or may not have screenshot all the references in this comic that I recognised. Come on, give me a break. I only have two more weeks worth of Kindle before I'm back to haphazardly describing the images in physical copies or scrounging through sketchy websites (dodging the porn) looking for digital copies. So here are seven of those pop culture references in this book. (They are not spoilery, plus I put them out of chronological order to avoid disclosing anything else about the narrative):
Ah yes. Well done Rose, correct terminology. Come on Doctor, get with it.
I mean, do they or do they not look like one of the bajillion Stormtrooper variants?
Anyone calling anyone "Spock" in any media makes me smile
Trust the American to make the Wizard of Oz reference
I have actually read this book, and I propose its alternate title should be "How To Manipulate People Without It Actually Feeling Like Manipulation"
What is it with Americans and this movie? They act like The Wizard of Oz is the pinnacle of all cinema.
I do have one critique of this comic. It is a bit of Rose, Jack or the Doctor get stuck somewhere “dies” rinse and repeat and doesn't really diverge from this. But there are also robot centaurs so that makes up for it.