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Doctor Who: Who-ology (2013) 486 cópias
Project: Lazarus (2003) — Autor — 42 cópias
The Church and the Crown (2002) — Autor — 41 cópias
Project: Twilight (2001) — Autor — 39 cópias
Night of the Whisper (2013) 36 cópias
Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas (2007) — Editor — 31 cópias
Project: Destiny (2010) — Autor — 28 cópias
The Prisoner of Peladon (2009) 21 cópias
The Highgate Horror (2016) 17 cópias
Project: Nirvana (2012) — Autor — 14 cópias
The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011) — Autor — 14 cópias
Masters of Earth (2014) — Autor — 14 cópias
The Eternal Battle (2017) — Autor — 13 cópias
Doorway to Hell (2017) 12 cópias
The Nu-Humans (2012) — Autor — 12 cópias
The Claws of Santa (2009) — Autor — 10 cópias
Caged (Blake's 7: The Classic Audio Adventures) (2014) — Autor — 8 cópias
Blake's 7 - 4: Crossfire Part 1 (2017) — Autor — 7 cópias
Doctor Who - The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles (2020) — Autor — 6 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 23 (2016) — Editor — 6 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 24 (2016) — Editor — 5 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 34 (2016) — Editor — 5 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 56 (2016) — Editor — 5 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 30 (2016) — Editor — 4 cópias
Vienna: Series One Box Set (2014) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Blake's 7 Series 5 Restoration Part Two (2019) — Autor — 4 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 32 (2017) — Editor — 4 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 77 (2016) — Editor — 4 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 67 (2016) — Editor — 4 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 45 (2016) — Editor — 4 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 57 (2017) — Editor — 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 89 (2019) — Editor — 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 62 (2017) — Editor — 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 60 (2018) — Editor — 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 58 (2018) — Editor — 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 6 (2017) — Editor — 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 53 (2016) — Editor — 3 cópias
Deadly Mission (Teen Reads) (2014) 3 cópias
The Corridor (Teen Reads) (2014) 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 31 (2018) — Editor — 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 88 (2019) — Editor — 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 80 (2018) — Editor — 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 19 (2017) — Editor — 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 8 (2016) — Editor — 3 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 3 (2016) — Editor — 3 cópias
James Robert McCrimmon (2023) 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 36 (2017) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 33 (2017) — Editor — 2 cópias
Ghost Bell (Teen Reads III) (2014) 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 4 (2017) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 7 (2018) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 10 (2017) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 12 (2018) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 86 (2018) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 25 (2018) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 39 (2018) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 46 (2018) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 63 (2017) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 64 (2016) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 68 (2017) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 78 (2017) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 82 (2018) — Editor — 2 cópias
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 44 (2017) — Editor — 1 exemplar(es)
Project Valhalla 1 exemplar(es)
Twilight's End (2008) 1 exemplar(es)
Luther Arkwright: Heart of Empire: 2 (2023) — Adapter — 1 exemplar(es)
Doctor Who: The Complete History Volume 84 (2018) — Editor — 1 exemplar(es)
The Feast Of Stone 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who (2015) — Contribuinte — 122 cópias
Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013) — Contribuinte — 71 cópias
Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury (2004) — Contribuinte — 60 cópias
Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dead Men Diaries (2000) — Contribuinte — 56 cópias
Short Trips: Steel Skies (2003) — Contribuinte — 52 cópias
Short Trips: Past Tense (2004) — Contribuinte — 50 cópias
Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins (2005) — Contribuinte — 48 cópias
Life During Wartime (2003) — Contribuinte — 45 cópias
Sympathy for the Devil (Doctor Who Unbound) (2003) — Narrador — 41 cópias
Short Trips: Defining Patterns (2008) — Contribuinte — 31 cópias
Missing Adventures (2007) — Contribuinte — 25 cópias
Short Trips: Indefinable Magic (2009) — Contribuinte — 22 cópias
The Forgotten (2012) — Autor, algumas edições21 cópias
The Butcher of Brisbane (2012) — Narrador — 20 cópias
Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus (2009) — Contribuinte — 19 cópias
Bernice Summerfield: Epoch (2011) — Contribuinte — 12 cópias
Counter Measures: Series 2 (2013) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
The Obverse Book of Ghosts (2010) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Counter-Measures: Series 4 (2015) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Doctor Who: Peladon — Autor — 6 cópias
Destiny of the Doctor: The Complete Series (2013) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias

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A collection of six stories about Doctor Who's arch-villain, the Master. Each one features a different incarnation, including the often-neglected post-Roger Delgado version, when he was all gross and crispy and mostly dead. More precisely, there are five shorter pieces and one that I think is (or at least closely approaches) novella length. The shorter ones were all readable enough, and generally they each featured at least one reasonably interesting idea: the answer to the question of where the Master gets all his amazingly lifelike masks, for instance, or a plot in which the aforementioned undead-ish version partly inspired the novel Dracula. But I can't say any of them stood out, particularly. The longer piece, on the other hand -- "The Master and Margarita" by Matthew Sweet -- was just weird. Even by Doctor Who standards. There's, like, a capitalist mushroom, and the Master appears to be dating a Silurian, and... I don't even know, honestly. I also don't know whether it's ultimately good-weird or bad-weird, but it was certainly interesting, and in its own way entertaining. (I do imagine it's parodying the novel of the same name to some extent, but I couldn't really say. That one's been sitting on my TBR shelves for years, but I still haven't gotten around to reading it, so all I can do is judge the story on its own trippy merits... if I could quite figure out how!)… (mais)
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Anger Management - 2/5
The Dead Travel Fast - 3/5
Missy’s Magical Mystery Mission - 5/5
A Master In Disguise - 5/5
The Night Harvest - 5/5
The Master and the Margarita - 2/5
 
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The twelfth Doctor has settled down for a time, stuck in one time and place. His new companion is a young, college-age black woman, to whom he acts as a bit of a teacher. Plus, his oldest enemy is trapped with him.

No, it's not series ten... it's DWM issues #501 to 511! It is a bit amazing how much this is like what would be done on screen a year later. "Great minds," one supposes, but it's a set-up that really works in both cases.

Reading the comic, I have come to look forward to those periods where the television programme is off screen for protracted runs. Even though the comic is usually solid when the show is on, the energy of a complete run with its own connections and themes makes it greater than the sum of its parts—and it's most often these sequences that reward rereading in collected form.

The Pestilent Heart
This is the story that has to reunite the twelfth Doctor with Jess Collins from The Highgate Horror, strand the Doctor in the 1970s, and establish a new status quo. Its strength is definitely its first installment, where Jess goes after the enigmatic Doctor she remembers from Highgate Cemetary; the later-era Peter Capaldi Doctor is perfectly presented here, funny and acerbic. Once the plot gets underway I found it all a bit less interesting, to be honest, and when the bird creatures appeared in a grave, I was a bit confused until I realized they were totally different bird creatures to the ones in a grave from Jess's first story!

Moving In
Now this is where this run and its premise begins to sing. This is told in the form of four three-page vignettes, as the Doctor interacts with each member of the Collins household: father Lloyd, mother Devina, son Maxwell, and of course Jess. They're all nicely executed bits of characterization, but the best of all is the Doctor arguing about superheroes with Max. "Detectives aren't clever! What's clever about solving crimes after they happen? 'Ooh, look at my amazing powers of hindsight!'" John Ross is usually tapped as DWM's action man (see last volume for a prime example), but he's amazingly deft with the character work here: good facial expressions, really captures Capaldi's performance and brings the whole family to life. This is the kind of thing only the strip could do, and all the better for it.

Bloodsport
This is a fine story. Solid but unspectacular... alien hunters come to London, the Doctor must persuade them to depart. It's the exact kind of thing that benefits from the overarching set-up, because Jess and Max and the blundering cop are what make the story work, as real people around the Doctor trying to get out.

Be Forgot
I like that Christmas strips have become a thing, but not too regular of a thing so that they don't feel repetitive when the graphic novels are read in quick succession. I am, however, not sure what I think of this one. You think the Collinses' neighbor is being controlled by a monster, but it turns out to be a hallucination brought on by grief. It's trying to say something important... but is this how grief and mental illness work? Feels a bit cheap. But I did like the last page a lot, where Devina throws a Christmas party for the whole street.

Doorway to Hell
It all comes to a (premature, I would claim; more on that soon) end with this story, a nice little epic where the Roger Delgado Master goes after the twelfth Doctor, mistaking him for a new incarnation after the third. There are two great cliffhangers, good character moments, nice dialogue, impressive hellish art from Staz Johnson, and a nice coda. It's all very well done, and DWM makes one of its rare bids for depicting a key tv-continuity moment with the regeneration of the Master. I liked it, and like all the stories, it's better because of its context.

I said above that this run is a lot like series ten. There's another way it's like series ten: its set-up feels like it could have been a storytelling engine for a lot longer than it was. I always think we needed a second series of the Doctor and Bill at St. Luke's; I would have liked to have had at least one more story of the Doctor with the Collinses. It very much seems like there ought to have been at least one more "regular" adventure at least between Be Forgot and Doorway to Hell.

Stray Observations:
  • Jess remembers the Doctor used to travel with Clara, of course, but as per "Hell Bent," he does not. So when she brings it up, he's confused... but oddly not curious. I guess in some way, he knows it's something he's better off not knowing, but it does read a bit off. That said, there wouldn't be a way to bring Jess back without this bit of awkwardness.
  • Staz Johnson is the first new artist to debut in DWM in quite some time, the first since Paul Grist way back in #414, ninety-one issues prior. This is the longest gap between new artists in DWM history, beating out the previous record when Tim Perkins debuted in issue #130, the first new artist since John Ridgway forty-two issues earlier. He is, on the other hand, the first DWM artist not to contribute to the commentaries that I can remember! (At least, since the detailed commentaries were introduced.) He's done some work for DC and such, but I know him best as one of the primary artists of the later, black-and-white years of the Transformers UK comic strip.
  • Don't confuse Be Forgot the Christmas comic strip written by Mark Wright with "...Be Forgot," the Christmas short story co-written by Mark Wright. I guess if you have a good title, you can't afford to turn it down even if you've used it before!
  • Wright talks about suggesting era-appropriate actors to Staz Johnson to model characters on; Katya, the Master's henchlady in Doorway to Hell, is clearly Jacqueline Pearce!
  • "JUST A TRACER" WATCH: The rare DWM graphic novel where everyone who worked on it gets cover credit!
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The strip continues its use of rotating creative teams throughout the twelfth Doctor and Clara era. Since The Crimson Hand, the strip has always tried to do an ongoing strand when the show is off the air for protracted periods of time, but it is less consistent about if it tries to do this when the show is on. Yes, ongoing stories for the Eleven/Amy and Eleven/Clara runs, no ongoing stories for the Twelve/Clara run. I wonder what determines this? Well, presumably Scott Gray knows how to make the magic...

Space Invaders! / Spirits of the Jungle
These two stories perhaps exemplify the fault with the rotating creative team approach. This isn't to say that the stories are awful or anything—I feel a bit bad picking on them, to be honest—but they are also not up to much. Space Invaders! has a fun premise of the Doctor and Clara being in a gigantic space storage facility, but I don't feel like it does anything fun with it, as it basically becomes a fight between them and a giant monster. Similarly, Spirits of the Jungle is crammed with ideas and action, but the ideas are mostly just there; the story doesn't really do anything of note with the idea of a living jungle, or Clara encountering a Danny Pink simulation, or what have you. The fakeout ending is all too obvious: this is an area where the regular page length of a DWM strips lets the twist down. Clearly the story isn't going to wrap up on page three! It would be more effective to trick the reader into thinking it's a two-parter, and then having a cliffhanger at the end of part two.

The Highgate Horror
This is a solid enough story. Lots of atmosphere as the Doctor and Clara battle vampires in a spooky cemetery, aided by future companion Jess. But the ending—as I feel like is often the case with these two-part stories by inexperienced comics writers—seems to come out of nowhere. Like, it's ten pages of solid horror, and then the Doctor's like, "oh this previously unmentioned time thingummy can fix all out problems." But David A Roach really nails it, of course.

The Dragon Lord
"Adrian Salmon, draw dragons." Well, of course it looks great. But to be honest I found the story a bit of a muddle, and got lost, especially as the Doctor seemed very angry for reasons that I never really grasped.

Theatre of the Mind
Roger Langridge has been a recurring artist on DWM since Happy Deathday in 1998, and the main letterer of the strip since TV Action! in 1999. But Langridge is also an accomplished writer of comics, something I know from his short, lamented, but very good 2010-11 run on Thor. Here for the first time in seventeen years at DWM, he writes as well as draws... and the the result is excellent, the first strong strip in what was shaping up to be a bit of a lackluster volume. The Doctor meets old friend Harry Houdini... and of course battles aliens. Langridge has a great grasp of character voice, some good gags and imagery, and real economy of storytelling. Everything here shines in both writing and art. His caricatured style is good for capturing Peter Capaldi, of course, but I was also surprised to realize that he probably does the best Jenna Coleman of all the DWM artists?

Witch Hunt
This story I had a dim memory of reading as it came out (which was not true for the other stories here, most of which I had completely forgotten)... and I was surprised to find Clara's last DWM adventure an absolute delight. A Halloween-themed fundraiser at Coal Hill School goes horribly wrong when Clara—dressed as a witch—is sent back to the era of the witch hunts and hunted by the real Witchfinder General! It looks great of course (Clara in a simple black witch outfit is perfect) and is packed with lots of great moments: "curses" start working... but the Doctor is able to use that to his advantage by picking up a penny and giving himself luck. Clara in prison is a tour-de-force of illustration from Martin Geraghty and David Roach. There's lots of whimsy here mixed with real peril, especially when the Doctor must face down Miss Chief, a seemingly omnipotent entity who just really really gets on his nerves, the kind of enemy that Peter Capaldi's Doctor sparkles facing down. Lots of good gags, strong character moments. Jac Rayner is rapidly emerging as a new talent on the DWM strip.

The Stockbridge Showdown
Five hundred issues of DWM... commemorated by a twenty-page strip featuring Sharon, Max Edison, Izzy, Frobisher, Destrii, Majenta Pryce, (kind of) Chiyoko, Dogbolter, and Hob! With art by all the most prominent current members of the DWM art team, but also bringing back Dave Gibbons and John Ridgway! Like, what can you say against or even for such a celebratory jam? It also gets in references to DWM's two dead companions, Sir Justin and Gus... and the Gus moment is the emotional heart of the strip. "No one ever remembers Gus. Except me." This is what I think elevates it, not just using the strip's history as a source of continuity, but delivering a surprise character moment. "You see, I'm not on your list, Dogbolter... you were on mine." Finally, 413 issues later, the Doctor brings Dogbolter to justice.

It's got lots of nice moments beyond that. It's great to see a sure-of-herself Izzy, and the bit where she points out that of course she's reconciled with her parents is great; it's nice to see her and Destrii getting along; it's good to see Destrii at all (though we don't know what she's been up to) and Majenta Pryce using her powers for good. Max gets his moment in the spotlight, and we even get to visit DWM's other mainstay of a setting, Cornucopia. The way each artist is assigned their own two-page spread is very well done; we finally get to see Dan McDaid draw Majenta again, for example.

A well-earned and well-done celebration of five hundred issues. I mean, c'mon... they got Dave Gibbons to come back!

Stray Observations:
  • I think I'm getting good at pegging when David Roach is collaborating with Mike Collins and when he's not. Their styles are very sympathetic, but there's some slight differences when Roach isn't inking over Collins's pencils.
  • At thirty-eight issues, Clara has the third-longest run of any comic strip companion, behind only Izzy and Frobisher, and just edging out Amy. Not sure I would have guessed she had the longest run of any tv companion! But it kind of makes sense; there were some big hiatuses in Clara's tv tenure. (Note that this doesn't mean she appeared in all thirty-eight issues of the era, just that she was the companion for that period.)
  • Scott Gray totally ignores the fact that Dogbolter was seemingly killed off in Death's Head #8. Look, I know, but it was written and illustrated by Dogbolter's creator! And he ignores that Hob became a vengeful killing machine in The Incomplete Death's Head #6-12. I can't imagine why!
  • Maybe it would have been overegging the pudding, but I could have done with a couple more cameos at the last-page celebration of Max's birthday on Cornucopia. C'mon, throw in Horatio Lynk and Amy Johnson!
  • Okay, it feels a bit churlish to complain about this, but whenever the strip celebrates its own history, it feels to me like what it celebrates is not the entirety of that history, but just 1979-87 and 1996-present. Sure, 1987-95 was not the best era of the strip, but it often seems like Ground Zero didn't just erase the New Adventures strips, but everything involving Sylvester McCoy's Doctor at all. I'm not saying that Olla the Heat Vampire needed to pop up here... but, I dunno, give us a Muriel Frost or House on Allen Road appearance? The strip continued to introduce original characters and concepts during that run, and surely someone out there is nostalgic for them! And it's not like this period is one Scott Gray is unfamiliar with... he debuted on DWM then!
  • Say it again. Dave Gibbons! John Ridgway! Wow! They both have still got it.
  • "JUST A TRACER" WATCH: Second billing! Of course, he's not "just a tracer" in this one...
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David Bryher Contributor, Author
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