| Title | : | Doctor Who: Through Time and Space |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1600105750 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781600105753 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 |
| Publication | : | First published December 29, 2009 |
* The Whispering Gallery by Leah Moore, John Reppion, and Ben Templesmith
* The Time Machination by Tony Lee and Paul Grist
* Autopia by John Ostrander and Kelly Yates
* Cold-Blooded War by Richard Starkings and Gary Russell
* Room with a Déjà View by Rich Johston and Eric J
* Black Death White Life by Charlie Kirchoff and Tom Mandrake
Doctor Who: Through Time and Space Reviews
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I've giving this collection four stars because a couple of the stories really stood out for. I particularly liked the adventure with H. G. Wells and a couple others had some either darker themes or fairly creative narrative twists. I really probably should have given it three-stars, but those two or three stories really stood out for me.
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800+ years ago, a man ran away; far, far away. Away from his people, from the responsibilities they wanted to heap upon him and from whatever destiny they saw for him that he didn’t want for himself. He stole a ship, a fantastic ship that allows him to travel not only through space, but through time. You see, his people, they mastered time long ago. They are called the Timelords and they live on the planet Galifrey.
Well, they lived on the planet Galifrey. Still do though no one can visit them and they cannot escape. The Timelords fought in the TimeWar, the greatest war ever known, that raged across time and space and only ended because he ended it by locking it all away from the universe along with the Nightmare Child, the Skaro Degradations, The Horde of Travesties, The Could-Have-Been King and his army of Mean-Whiles and Never-Weres and, of course, his greatest enemies – the Daleks. This left him alone, the last of the Timelords; alone to carry on their legacy. He doesn’t like to talk about it.
From the beginning, he’s been running, is still running, whether it’s away from something as it was in the past, or to something now, we don’t know – but he is still out there, running. Somewhere along the way, he fell in love. Oh, not the kind of love that you and I might experience one for the other, no – he fell in love with an entire planet: Earth.
Now on his tenth regeneration, a quirk of his people that allows him to live far longer than us, the man known only as The Doctor is still running, still traveling in his stolen TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space) and, if he notices you, maybe he’ll take you along for the ride…
Doctor Who: Through Time and Space is a trade paperback / graphic novel that brings together 6 one shot issues of Doctor Who originally published by IDW Publishing.
Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing (December 2, 2009)
With his Ninth regeneration, The Doctor found a companion to travel with him who found a special place in his hearts; her name was Rose. He gave up one regeneration to save her life and, with his Tenth, she planned to stay with him forever. Then came the Daleks ( managing to escape the timelock ) and the Cybermen ( bleeding through from another reality caused by the Daleks escaping the timelock ) and Torchwood ( created by Queen Victoria to act as a defense for the Empire against the alien hordes ). Rose is transported to the alternate reality, leaving the Tenth Doctor to travel alone again. Or, perhaps with some new companions.
Doctor Who: Through Time and Space gives us six stories featuring the Tenth Doctor on his own, with Martha Jones and Donna Noble. Since the stories are not one, cohesive plot, I’m going to talk about each separately.
The Whispering Gallery by Leah Moore, John Reppion and Ben Templesmith
Our story opens with The Doctor and Martha traveling in the TARDIS. On a mission to find Martha some milk for her tea, The Doctor brings them to the wrong planet; Gratt. At first, Martha believes they’ve arrived inside an art gallery, but The Doctor tells her that each picture is actually the last words of one of the Grattites, the people of this world. They capture a piece of their consciousness and lock it away here, in The Whispering Gallery, preserved for all time.
Creepy Comic Book Doctor wants to know if Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka is hiring...
The Doctor explains that he traveled with one of the Grattites for a time, just giving her a ride really. Her name was Grayla and she told him that no one on Gratt ever smiles or laughs or cries. That’s why they created the Gallery, so they could say all the things in death that they never could in life.
When he finds Grayla’s portrait hanging in the gallery, her last words directed to him, telling him that the emotions she had sought in her travels were wrong, were bad, he decides to find out what could’ve possibly happened to such a free spirit since he last saw her, what could’ve changed her into the mournful, regretful creature hanging on the wall of the Gallery.
Leaving Martha in the Gallery, he goes exploring and finds that there is a very good reason the Grattites do not allow any displays of emotions, a reason that may destroy the planet ow that he and Martha have arrived, which is where our adventure truly begins…
On a close up like this, there's a lot of detail to the art - click to see it larger
A common theme for me throughout my reviews of these stories is going to be the artwork; it was very distracting. Overall, this was a decent story, but the artwork killed it for me in a lot of ways. Maybe I’m too set in my Marvel / DC ways where the art is pretty consistent throughout the book, I don’t know.
First – it seemed like they couldn’t decide what style of art they were going to use from panel to panel. This resulted in one panel looking very different from the next. In one, it looked almost like a half-finished sketch, on the next, some sort of half/real photo half/drawn/colored image. It just really distracted me from the story and a comic book’s art shouldn’t do that.
Second – I think they were going for ‘playful’ with the art, trying to capture the essence of Tennant’s Doctor and the humor that comes through via the art, but failed to deliver. The mish/mash of styles from panel to panel, page to page, didn’t feel playful as much as it felt ‘incomplete’ to me. Art is subjective, of course, so you could absolutely love it, I don’t know. I don’t, and that took away from the story for me – I couldn’t enjoy it for what it was because I was constantly thinking, “Gah! That looks terrible!”
on something like this, a 'further away' shot, they did a lot of detail on the TARDIS but Martha looks like a stick figure drawing
The Time Machination by Tony Lee and Paul Grist
The Doctor, traveling alone, brings the TARDIS to London in 1889. Apparently, the TARDIS is in need of fuel once again, but The Doctor can’t get her to Cardiff as he did with Rose and again with Martha, so he enlists the help of H.G. Wells and John Smith, a local physicist ‘of some renown’ to try and get her going again. Part of the trouble is that the Torchwood Institute is hunting for him under orders from the Queen, so he has to lie low and try not to be seen.
While The Doctor and John Smith discuss ways to refuel the TARDIS without actually moving her to Cardiff, The Doctor also keeps dropping hints to Wells about how he should write a book, something Wells does not seem very keen to do. “I told you Doctor, I’m not writing a book!”
Donning an outfit that looks suspiciously familiar, the three go off exploring only to run into folks from Torchwood!
The Doctor and John Smith escape, but Wells is captured and interrogated by the Torchwood Institute where he reveals that he has been in the company of The Doctor once before, though he looked very different.
In the end… well, I won’t tell you that. There is a twist to this story that I won’t reveal, but it’s an amusing story if a little confusing once everything is revealed.
I liked the art in this one better than the previous story. It’s completely different from the first story but consistent throughout which helped a lot and didn’t distract from the story which is in the same vein as the historical figure stories from the recent series (Shakespeare, Queen Victoria, Charles Dickens). As such, it’s a lighter story, though it does have a decent twist and TWO references to Classic Who episodes that I caught – one in the middle and a nice little epilogue that ties the story to one of my favorites from the Tom Baker years; The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
The Doctor and Leela arrive in Victorian London for a little adventure.
Bonus shot - from the original and classic episode of Doctor Who-The Talons of Weng Chiang
Autopia by John Ostrander and Kelly Yates.
The Doctor and Donna travel to the closed planet Autopia. Millennia ago, the inhabitants mastered robotics and announced they were going to make an automated utopia. The robots would take over the task of keeping the planet going while they pursued higher goals like perfecting their minds and intelligence. They built planetary shields to keep the rest of the universe out so they could live undisturbed.
Of course, this doesn’t keep the TARDIS out. Together with Donna, The Doctor ventures out to explore Autopia and find its inhabitants.
First they run into robots who are definitely doing all the upkeep on the planet from gardening to security. Essentially, they’re arrested and taken to one of the inhabitants who seems both annoyed at being interrupted in her studies and indifferent at the idea that new people are standing before her. She simply wants to be left alone to keep ‘improving’, so she tells the robots to do to The Doctor and Donna what has been done to others who’ve managed to break through the planetary shield; kill them.
What happens next… well, that would be spoiling the story, wouldn’t it?
Of all the art throughout these stories, this one has my favorite. It’s light, fun – feels like an animated series might look. My only complaint is Donna herself; Catherine Tate is a, shall we say ‘curvaceous’ woman? Far more curvy than they’ve represented her here. I almost want to say that the comic book artist’s desire to make all women look impossibly thin and busty won through, which is sad. I don’t know – maybe they didn’t have the rights from Tate to her likeness so they decided to go with ‘Donna-like’ (or ‘Donna-lite’).
This is also my favorite of the stories, though I didn’t like the very last panel, which I won’t spoil here. It had a bit of the Ood flavor to it even though the aliens were very human looking.
Cold Blooded War by Richard Starkings and Gary Russel
The Doctor and Donna are off to a night at the opera. Both are dressed for the occasion and ready to go. Unfortunately, The Doctor has once again missed his landing slightly and they arrive on the planet Draconia, several million lightyears away from the opera.
They arrive in the middle of a civil war, one that many different powers throughout the galaxy have inserted themselves into in the interest of bringing peace to Draconia, a male dominated society where, for the first time in centuries, one of the royal houses has selected a female leader.
The Doctor is mistaken for an adjudicator sent from Earth to foster peace talks and Donna as a member of Earth royalty. No sooner do they arrive than they are split apart, The Doctor kidnapped by the forces opposing the rule of Empress Adjit Kwan while Donna is whisked away to ‘safety’ at the Empress’ court.
Now it’s up to them to bring peace to this world before the opposition executes the Doctor or the Empress is forced to allow Judoon troops from the Shadow Proclamation to occupy the planet as a peacekeeping force.
Ok – artwork. Again, I don’t care for it. Donna is drawn as a wispy thing once again.
Writing/story – if you’ve been wanting a non-human, non-London, non-Earth based Doctor story, this one delivers for you. Though the themes and settings mirror some of the things going on in our world today, the characters are all alien.
I think the writers went overboard trying to capture the Doctor and Donna through catch phrases they’ve used in the show and they did it way too much (this is actually true of all 6 stories, imho). Again, there are some references and tie-ins to classic Who (like the Talons reference from 2nd story).
Room with a Deja View by Rich Johnston and Eric J
The Doctor is traveling alone. Worse, he’s sitting in a corner of the TARDIS… Sulking?
Suddenly, the TARDIS picks up a distress signal and the Doctor lands on a ship deep in the void where there are no stars. He is arrested immediately and knocked unconscious.
When he wakes, he learns that the inhabitants of the ship are out in the middle of nowhere because they’re hiding from a plague that’s been ravaging through the galaxy.
Now that they know who he is, they want the Doctor not to help them fight the plague, but help them with a puzzling murder.
They know who the murderer us, they even know that he sent the distress signal that brought the Doctor to the ship, but they don’t know why and they aren’t having any luck interrogating the suspect. They hope the Doctor can help.
This is my least favorite of all these stories and it has my least favorite artwork.
Let's just see how ugly we can draw the Doctor, shall we?
The Doctor does a couple of things I deem to be ‘out of character’ for him; he crosses his own time stream and he SULKS in the TARDIS. Beyond that, the story itself, while clever, is difficult to follow. I get what they were doing (I won’t spoil it for you), what they were trying to accomplish and it’s bold, but falls flat for me. Again, if you’ve been looking for more non-human, non-London, non-Earth stories, this one will appeal to you.
Black Death White Life by Charlie Kirchoff and Tom Mandrake
Traveling with Martha, the Doctor plans to take her to Apple Records in January of 1969 to see the Beatles play their rooftop concert. Alas, this is not to be as the Doctor instead lands the TARDIS in 1669 where the plague is running rampant in a small village.
Only, the plague shouldn’t be running rampant anymore.
Upon hearing that there is a faith healer in a nearby church who is able to completely heal anyone suffering from the plague, Martha and the Doctor split up (Surprise!) to investigate.
Left alone, Martha is infected with the plague by the mysterious Plague Doctors and it’s up to the Doctor to figure out what’s going on.
This is an okay story; it has its silly bits and its serious bits and the artwork, though dark, fits the themes and the time period and isn’t terrible nor does it distract from the story.
So, there. Six stories, six very different bits of artwork, six very different plots. The trade paperback itself is very nicely put together for a softcover. It’ll run you $20 at a brick and mortar barring any discounts you may have or you can pick it up online for around $12.
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I really liked this one. Each story was like having another episode from the show. All very well done. And the Donna Noble one was priceless! Leave it to Donna to point out how the Draconians have had women in charge of them their whole lives and they never realized it so why all this fuss over having a Queen instead of a King. It was great!
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This collection of six previously published comics featuring The tenth doctor is definitely worth your time. I especially enjoyed the stories with H.G. Wells embroiled with Torchwood and Donna taking on Draconian society.
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CUPID BOOK.👎
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Pour ce tome là, les choses sont clairement présentées, il s’agit de six histoires indépendantes, ce qui n’est pas plus mal.
Mais ça veut aussi dire six dessinateurs différents et autant de styles à appréhender.
La galerie des soupirs
Martha et Ten arrivent sur Grȧtt, un monde sur lequel les émotions sont interdites.
Le Docteur y retrouve la tombe de Grayla, une de ses anciennes compagnes qui avait pourtant l’intention de ne jamais retourner sur son monde d’origine.
J’ai beaucoup aimé cette histoire qui ressemble un peu à l’épisode 707, Rings of Akhaten. Le dessin y est en plus très beau.
The Time machination
Le Docteur est en panne de TARDIS à Londres en 1889. Il cherche à rejoindre Cardiff pour le recharger sur la faille mais l’institut Torchwood, créé par la Reine Victoria, est à sa recherche.
J’ai moins apprécié le style graphique mais l’idée était vraiment bonne de faire intervenir Torchwood. Cette histoire est en plus bourrée de petites références amusantes telles que Blackpool qui revient souvent dans la série.
Autopia
Ten et Donna arrivent sur Autopia, une planète sur laquelle les habitants ont atteint un degré de perfection absolue.
Plus de Martha ici mais Donna voyage à sa place.
Les références à sa relation avec le Docteur sont bien présentes avec la blague sur leur prétendu couple et Sam qui l’appelle Docteur Donna comme les Odds l’ont fait (ou plutôt comme ils le feront puisque la chronologie place cette histoire entre The Fire of Pompeii et Planet of the Odd). Le scénario est en revanche un peu bateau et je n’ai pas aimé le dessin.
Cold Blooded War
La situation est grave sur Draconia. Les deux maisons royales sont entrées en guerre civile après trois siècles de paix.
Je n’ai à peu près rien compris à cette histoire. Le propos sur la place des femmes était bien intéressant mais noyé au milieu d’une guerre interne dans laquelle je me suis vite mélangée les pinceaux.
Room with a déjà view
Une épidémie a frappé la zone morte et les survivants se sont regroupés dans un gigantesque vaisseau spatial sur lequel un meurtre a eu lieu.
Le Docteur est chargé de l’enquête mais le suspect est un inversé, qui vit sa vie sur une ligne de temps opposée à celle des autres espèces.
Autant dire que cette histoire est très confuse puisque les dialogues ont lieu à l’envers. C’est sans doute très original mais je n’ai rien compris.
Black death White life
1669, la Peste fait rage mais un mystérieux soigneur se charge de guérir tout le monde.
Le Docteur se méfie de cet individu et Martha essaie d’apporter du réconfort aux malades.
Une histoire plutôt simpliste mais qui fait du bien après deux autres plutôt compliquées. Et un Ten qui ressemble beaucoup à ce qu’il sera sur sa fin. -
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The Whispering Gallery
Consistent art/style: ✖
Story: ✔, but I thought that it would've been better in an actual TV episode than in 25 pages of comics.
The Time Machination
Consistent art/style: ✔
Story: ★ Yay for Classic Who continuity! (Trivia: A Filipino mention, referring to a Classic Who storyline)
Autopia
Ah. She is...your mate? Hahaha!
Consistent art/style: ★
Story: ✔ (perfect for 20+ pages! Though the ending panel is a bit corny?)
Cold-Blooded Cold War
Consistent art/style: ✖ . Too simplistic for my taste. The extra-long dialogues in many balloons could've been split.
Story: ✔ With Donna, it always is!
Room with a Deja View
Consistent art/style: ✔
Story: ✔ More time-wimey stuff. (Had to read it the reverse-dialogue conversation twice, first normally and then backwards).
Black Death
Consistent art/style: ✔
Story: ? I'm not sure if I'm okay with the ending. -
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a nice half-dozen Tenth Doctor stories, originally published as separate comics and here as a single volume by IDW. I really bought it to read the first story, "The Whispering Gallery", which is by Leah and John, and am glad to say that I enjoyed it and most of the others (the exception being a typically cliched cute robot story in the middle). The standout, however, is Tony Lee's "The Time Machination", featuring Ten teaming up with H.G. Wells against Torchwood, with lots of other pleasing references to both New and particularly Old Who. Lee's The Forgotten was also excellent, and I shall look out for more of his work. And the collection as a whole is excellent value. -
"The Whispering Gallery" is a nice, quiet peace exploring the Doctor's regrets as he travels through time [7/10]. "The Time Machination" is even better, with its intricate interrelations of time travel, historic personas, and relations to both the new and old shows [8/10]. "Autopia" is a fun and somewhat thoughtful story [7/10]. "Cold Blooded War" had some fun continuity but the story wasn't notable [5/10]. "Room with a Deja View" is a confusing but thoughtful story. [6/10]. Unfortunately the last story, "Black Death White Life" is shallow and has both a so-so story and a so-so message [3/10].
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This GN is a collection of short stories and each one features a different art style depicting the David Tennent Doctor. It was fun, the stories depend on a prior knowledge of Doctor Who. As a Doctor Who fan, this was kettlecorn reading: small bits of a specific kind of delight that doesn't have much impact on overall satiety. I won't be recommending this particular GN, but I do tend to recommend Doctor Who in general for scifi reading/viewing. It is kid friendly yet holds adult interest and offers the much more adult spin off Torchwood that I can't say enough about.
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This book varies in quality, the stories are exceptionally high quality and the whispering gallery and room with a déjà view especially amaze. The artwork is what in my opinion hinders this book at times. Although the whispering gallery is an amazing story I'm not a big fan of the abstract artwork they've used for the story. But in terms of inventiveness it's a great collection of doctor who stories, which really show some depth to the main characters and is a welcome addition to the doctor who canon.
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Good stories with The Doctor alone, with Martha, and with Donna. Lots of shout-outs to the original series (specifically Tom Baker and Leela). The illustration of the first story was not to my liking, but the others were well drawn. All the stories were good overall and all seemed to capture the patter and spirit of Tennant's Doctor. A nice read for Doctor Who fans.
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I am a major fan of Doctor Who. Have been ever since the fourth Doctor was playing on PBS back in the 80's. When the series came back a few years ago, I was very happy and the stories were all topnotch. This graphic novel is full of terrific stories (if not always terrific art). The tenth Doctor's personality shines through clearly. And that personality made reading this book a lot of fun.
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A mixed bag. Nothing really bad but nothing terribly exciting. The highlights were John Ostrander's "Autopia" and Rich Johnston's "Room with a Deja View". Donna is as fun in print as she is on the screen in the stories that feature her. I'd recommend some other Doctor Who volumes from IDW before this one, however.
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The first graphic novel I have read. Mixed feelings here, loved one of the stories and one illustrator's version of my Doctor. Nice to have quick reads, comic books for adults are actually a great thing.
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In this collection of comics there is some truly awful artwork, and some diabolical stories. Very sad really as I think Dr Who lends itself to the comic medium quite well, but they've just got it so wrong here.
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Where's Rose!?!?!
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Bien mais un peu inégal.
J'ai beaucoup aimé les 2 premières histoires! -
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Loved the different art styles.. and I miss my Tennant! A girl never forgets her first Doctor <3
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I wrote the last story in this collection and colored a few others so I may be a bit biased. :)
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I liked that each story was done in a different art style. Each one was very distinct and well done. The stories were pretty good considering how short they were, too.
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Only read Autopia, since that isn't listed separately, I'm just noting here that i read it.
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I WANT TO READ IT SOOOOOOOOOOO BAD BUT I CANT FIND IT AT ALL
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Stories were mildly entertaining. only one real standout. Artwork didn't suit my fancy throughout most of it.
