Skip to main content

Time Lord Victorious


Monstrous Beauty


Its in for a penny in for a pound for me, as I continue in my quest to take in the TLV story.


Having read the novels, The Knight The Fool and The Dead, and All Flesh Is Grass, in which the Ninth Doctor turned up. It piqued my interest in how he got got involved.


The Ninth Doctor and Rose arrive on a planet , and the Doctor is instantly uneasy. Somehow they’re are in the Dark times, before the Gallifreyans became Time Lords and there are vampires.


I’m not sure wether I was buying the Doctor Who magazine at the time this comic came out. I couldn’t be bothered to find them in the attic so a YouTube video had to suffice. Its not the best way to view the story as sometimes you miss the artwork by reading the text. But I would give a shout out to the person who made them, as it gave me a chance to enjoy it and they did a good job.


I’m not much of a comic reader, at all really. I can’t really comment on how it compares to other comic.


It almost plays out as an episode, the Doctor and Rose get separated, Rose is in danger, a rescue,. One or two surprises, crafty escapes. Etc


All the tropes of Vampires are here, Rose as the sacrificial girl in white, the four poster bed, bats, blood. There’s mentions of Bow ships. And a woman called Rassilon.


This doesn’t quite lead into the novels, but its enough to tie in with what happens next.


Though I hadn’t planned on reading this, I’m glad I did.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Last Days of the Powell Estate The Ninth Doctor Adventures 4.2 The Doctor and Rose find themselves in the future, 2036 , to be exact. Though, when Rose discovers that the run down, derelict building they’ve arrived at is what left of the Powell estate , she starts to worry about her mother… It feels like quite a wait since the last episode. I’m not one for binge listening, but with Chris and Billie back together, you just want more. They meet a guy doing a video about strange places who tells the Doctor and Rose about an entity dubbed ‘ Mr Fingers ’. People feel a hand on their shoulder but when they turn round no ones there, feel it twice and you’re gone. The idea would make quite a nice horror film. It has the ingredients, the empty building, the sense of something unreal, people disappearing. The fact that once there felt the hand, if they turn around next time, they’re a goner.  The entity exists both in Roses time and the future, so we get Jackie and her friend in 2006...
Post a Comment
Read more
The Skeleton Quay                        Jago and Litefoot 6.1                                 Jago and Litefoot arrive back in their own time and are immediately accosted. The Queen needs their services. Ghosts are seen at a village lost to the sea. So if you didn’t know or had forgot, J&L spent the last series in the 1960’s. Here they are back where they belong, but we don’t get to catch up with Ellie , Sgt Quick etc. As they're off straight away. So the village of Shingle cove was washed away by the sea during a storm, but something would seem to be amiss as J&L start to see ghosts and visions of how the village was, and someone is out to stop them. Its does fall into that trope of small town by the sea, 73 yards does it, the Stuff of Legend also. Not that its necessarily a bad thing, but it sets the tone for the episode. The sea, cli...
Post a Comment
Read more
 The Three Companions I had intended to listen to Sirens of Time Redux after Once and Future Coda, however as it still hadn’t been released I went for the next audio on my list The Companion Chronicles: The Three Companions. This originally came out as 10 minutes parts, tacked onto the Monthly range, in 20009/10. The three companions being Polly, the Brigadier and Thomas Brewster, and consists of three, 40 minute episodes. Polly writes to the Brig, wanting to find out about the Doctor, having read an article by Mrs Jo Jones that mentions him, and tells a story of when she knew the Doctor. The thing that got me into the Companion Chronicles was the Mahogany Murder’s, I had tried them before and hadn’t taken to the the narration style. With the Mahogany Murder’s, it was Jago and Litefoot meeting and each recounting their recent events. This takes a similar approach. Though they are writing/emailing to each other there are interjections, comments from the other, which is a little odd,...
Post a Comment
Read more