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Alan Barnes (1) (1970–)

Autor(a) de The Hammer Story

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About the Author

Alan Barnes has co-authored acclaimed books on Quentin Tarantino, the James Bond films and Hammer Horror. His fiction writings include comic strips, audio dramas and the animated Doctor Who adventure, The Infinite Quest.
Image credit: Jeff Hardcastle, 2008.

Séries

Obras de Alan Barnes

The Hammer Story (1997) — Autor — 85 cópias
Storm Warning (2001) — Autor — 71 cópias
Zagreus (2003) — Autor — 61 cópias
Neverland (2002) — Autor — 57 cópias
End Game (2005) 55 cópias
The Girl Who Never Was (2007) — Autor — 46 cópias
The Next Life (2004) — Autor — 41 cópias
Weapon of Choice (2004) 37 cópias
Panacea (2006) 35 cópias
Brotherhood of the Daleks (2008) — Autor — 33 cópias
A Blind Eye (2004) 33 cópias
Castle of Fear (2009) — Autor — 30 cópias
Orbis (2009) 29 cópias
Enemy Aliens (2013) 28 cópias
Death in Blackpool (2009) 26 cópias
Nevermore (2010) 26 cópias
Heroes of Sontar (2011) — Autor — 24 cópias
Trail of the White Worm (2012) 21 cópias
Gods and Monsters (2012) — Autor — 21 cópias
The Oseidon Adventure (2012) 21 cópias
Daleks Among Us (2013) — Autor — 17 cópias
The Clockwise War (2019) — Autor — 16 cópias
Trial of the Valeyard (2013) — Autor — 16 cópias
Last of the Cybermen (2015) — Autor — 16 cópias
White Ghosts (2014) 15 cópias
And You Will Obey Me (2016) — Autor — 13 cópias
Suburban Hell (2015) — Autor — 12 cópias
Ground Zero (2019) — Autor — 11 cópias
Gallery of Ghouls (2016) 11 cópias
Time War: Susan's War (2020) — Autor — 9 cópias
An Alien Werewolf in London (2019) — Autor — 9 cópias
Doctor Who: The Comic Strip Adaptations, Volume One (2019) — Adapted — 8 cópias
The Eighth Doctor: The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller, Volume One (2019) — Script Editor; Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Liberation of the Daleks (2023) 6 cópias
The War Master: Anti-Genesis (2020) — Autor — 5 cópias
The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Series 9, Volume 2 (2020) — Autor — 4 cópias
Charlotte Pollard: The Further Adventuress (2022) — Autor — 3 cópias

Associated Works

The Glorious Dead (2006) — Contribuinte — 55 cópias
The Company of Friends (2009) — Contribuinte — 44 cópias
The Betrothal of Sontar (2008) — Contribuinte — 34 cópias
The Blue Tooth (2007) — Script Editor — 33 cópias
Doctor Who: Dark Eyes 2 (2014) — Contribuinte — 22 cópias
The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure (2015) — Contribuinte — 21 cópias
Doctor Who: The Audio Scripts, Volume One (2003) — Contribuinte — 19 cópias
Jago & Litefoot: Series One (2010) — Contribuinte — 18 cópias
Doctor Who: The Audio Scripts, Volume Four (2005) — Contribuinte — 14 cópias
Doctor Who: The Churchill Years, Volume One (2016) — Autor — 12 cópias
Doctor Who: The Churchill Years, Volume Two (2018) — Autor — 9 cópias
Cybermen: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection (2023) — Autor — 6 cópias
Destiny of the Doctor: The Complete Series (2013) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
The Eighth Doctor Authors (2002) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Doctor Who Magazine 581 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Doctor Who Magazine 572 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Doctor Who Magazine 535 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Doctor Who Magazine 594 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Barnes, Alan R.
Data de nascimento
1970-03-17
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Ocupação
scriptwriter
journalist

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2.5-2.75 stars. I was really looking forward to hearing this, and as usual The 5th Doctor and Nyssa gave great performances. However the story itself, or perhaps the way it was followed left me nonplussed. I thought the castle owner sounded more like an extremely daft "lad about town" from the 20 or 30's than someone of that era. I think between Wendy and
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Kiri | outras 2 resenhas | Dec 24, 2023 |
A cautious four stars, but it will depend on how this series unfolds as to whether it warrants it.
 
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therebelprince | outras 2 resenhas | Oct 24, 2023 |
Access a version of the below that includes illustrations on my blog.

The twelfth Doctor's run comes to an end with this somewhat odd collection, which includes just one twelfth Doctor story as well as a number of outstanding uncollected color stories from various sources, basically everything color that was left except for a few strips that made their way into The Age of Chaos.

The Clockwise War
This story caps off the twelfth Doctor era with a story that pits the Doctor and Bill against erstwhile companion Fey, who's out for revenge against the Time Lords after suffering through the horrors of the Time War. I think there's a lot to like about this story but it didn't totally work for me. I like the return of Fey, I like the installment told from the perspective of the War Doctor, I like the reveal about Shayde, I like the return of Jodafra and the use of his death to prove the situation is serious, I like the stuff with Wonderland and especially Annabel Lake. John Ross probably turns in his best-ever DWM work here, it's propulsive and beautiful to look at. On the other hand, the black-and-white monsters are too similar to what we just saw in The Phantom Piper, and while it's nice to see some of the supporting characters from The Parliament of Fear return... I'm not actually sure why they're there! Ultimately I think it's at least partially a victim of the sudden page cut: there's little room to breathe, and just like in the last story, Bill feels a bit forgotten in the middle of it all. This is her last story, but she doesn't get the kind of moments or send-off that Rose, Donna, Amy, and Clara got in theirs. Lots of moments to love but I didn't love it altogether.

A Religious Experience
In this first Doctor story from 1994, he and Ian watch a religious ritual on an alien planet. I didn't care for this at all: overly talky and nihilistic, I felt. Plus, John Ridgway's art usually doesn't benefit from being colored, especially coloring this crude.

Rest & Re-Creation / The Naked Flame
These are both fourth Doctor stories from the 1990s where he re-meets old monsters: the Zygons in the first and the Menoptera. They're by a young pre-"Scott" Scott Gray, and I found both kind of boring and confusing.

Blood Invocation
The fifth Doctor, Tegan, and Nyssa take on Time Lord vampires in this story that's almost but not quite a prequel to the Missing Adventure Goth Opera; in the extras, Paul Cornell explains that he doesn't know why they aren't consistent. I didn't find much to enjoy here; again, I think I'd be more into John Ridgway drawing vampires if it was all in black and white.

The Cybermen
This was a series of one-page strips published in the magazine across about two years; even before reading the commentary it was obvious to me that it was based on the old Daleks strips: it focuses on the Cybermen on Mondas in the old days, encountering weird threats, where we're usually meant to identify with the monsters, not the people trying to stop them. Like those old strips, they're kinetic and weird and fascinating, and I kind of felt like reading them all in a row wasn't doing them justice. They're very visual stories, and I often didn't know what exactly had happened, and felt I ought to have spent the time working through the art of the (as always) brilliant Adrian Salmon, but instead I went on to the next. But still: where else can you get Cybermen battling dinosaurs, Cybermen with blimps, Cybermen battling Cthuluoid menaces. The use of stuff like the Silurians could be overly fannish, but Barnes and Salmon make it work; I don't know how this actually fits with previous Cybermen stories, not even The Tenth Planet, but I don't really care.

Star Beast II / Junk-Yard Demon II
It would be easy to attack to self-consuming nature of DWM pre-TVM: the best it could come up was two sequels to Steve Parkhouse strips? But actually these were my favorites of the various yearbook stories collected here. Fun, straightforward stories with good artwork. Beep the Meep is always good fun, of course, and it's nice to see Fudge again. I don't know that Junk-Yard Demon demanded a sequel, but if it had to get one, this one is suitably grotesque.

Stray Observations:
  • Branding this collection "Collected Multi-Doctor Comic Strips – Volume 2" is one of those things that's technically correct but seems a bit confusing. Far better to brand it as the fifth and final of the "Collected Twelfth Doctor Comic Strips," since that's the series it actually ties into.
  • I liked the return of Jodafra, but on the other hand I didn't remember who Gol Clutha was at all even though she appeared much more recently, in Hunters of the Burning Stone and The Stockbridge Showdown!
  • I know the name came from Moffat (it debuted in this comic, but Scott Gray e-mailed Moffat to find out if the character had a name), but I find "Kenossium" as a name for Ken Bones/T'Nia Miller's General character really really stupid.
  • In the extras, Tim Quinn complains that editor John Freeman added a reference to the planet Quinnis from Inside the Spaceship to A Religious Experience. He seems to think the name "Quinnis" is intrinsically dumb-sounding but I'm not sure why.
  • These are Charlie Adlard's only Doctor Who contributions, and he seems faintly bemused by the whole things in the notes. He also did a lot of Vertigo work in the 1990s, but most notably went on to be the penciller on 187 issues of The Walking Dead, making him the person in this volume with the biggest non–Doctor Who comics career.
  • Star Beast II picks up from the end of The Star Beast; when Big Finish eventually did its own Beep the Meep story (2002's The Ratings War), it would actually pick up right from the end of Star Beast II, with Beep escaping Lassie.
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Stevil2001 | outras 2 resenhas | May 10, 2023 |
I got twelve pages of new-to-me content in the previous Daleks collection... here just eight, and all the reprints here already had extras. Good value for money!?

Emperor of the Daleks! / ...Up Above the Gods...
Previously reviewed as part of Emperor of the Daleks here.

Bringer of Darkness
Previously reviewed as part of Land of the Blind here.

Daleks versus the Martians
Fun fact: I have only seen the first Peter Cushing film as a Rifftrax installment, and I have never seen the second at all. This is a prequel to the second, I guess, setting up the Dalek invasion of Earth. Lee Sullivan draws good Daleks, of course, but otherwise there was nothing for me to be found here.

Fire and Brimstone
Previously reviewed as part of End Game here.

Children of the Revolution
Previously reviewed as part of Oblivion here.

Stray Observations:
  • Early reports were that this volume would include Return of the Elders (a follow-up to the old Dalek strips from TV Century 21, reprinted as a standalone DWM special in 2020), which was published as a back-up in DWM #249-54. This did not come to pass. Alas, as it would have brought this volume's newly reprinted content up to a whole fourteen pages!
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Estatísticas

Obras
53
Also by
18
Membros
1,127
Popularidade
#22,790
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
50
ISBNs
95

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