In Autopia.
Who caused it? Yes he did ;-)
Doctor Who: Autopia is another in the series of comics from IDW Publishing. It's a wonderfully "familiar" story. There may be spoilers after this.
It feels like something from TV. John Ostrander (WHY BTW hasn't he written for Who before?) nails the Doctor and Donna's (yes, Donna. First time in an IDW comic, and heralding her continued adventures in stories like Cold-Blooded War coming soon from IDW) voice and crafted a excellent little story, it fits it's 22 odd pages perfectly. There isn't an unnecessary scene or line of dialogue. Even the info-dump at the start from the Doctor fits with his rather garrulous tenth self. The planet they arrive on is a seemingly Utopian one, with robots doing all the work, with diseases cured and life-span expanded considerably.
Who wouldn't want to live there? It even fascinates the Doctor (normally the first one to go looking for snakes in the garden). Who wouldn't want to live there? The slaves, upon whose back the entire society is built. Not people. Not aliens. Robots.
Donna is appalled. The Doctor furious.
Both, sadly, condemned to death.
Naturally.
Applying his wits and Donna's compassion, the Doctor stimulates a revolution, and then when the revolution threatens to turn violent, he puts his foot down, threatening to unleash a virus upon the robots and Donna taking a very human solution to the problem.
Sound familiar doesn't it? It's something that he's been doing for roughly 45 years. Most noticeably in one of my personal favourite stories the Happiness Patrol. It's safe. It's fun. It's (in my opinion) quintessential Who.
Kelley Yates is excellent on art, and Kris Carter a colourful addition to the crew.
A for the art.
A for the story.
Overall A.
Who caused it? Yes he did ;-)
Doctor Who: Autopia is another in the series of comics from IDW Publishing. It's a wonderfully "familiar" story. There may be spoilers after this.
It feels like something from TV. John Ostrander (WHY BTW hasn't he written for Who before?) nails the Doctor and Donna's (yes, Donna. First time in an IDW comic, and heralding her continued adventures in stories like Cold-Blooded War coming soon from IDW) voice and crafted a excellent little story, it fits it's 22 odd pages perfectly. There isn't an unnecessary scene or line of dialogue. Even the info-dump at the start from the Doctor fits with his rather garrulous tenth self. The planet they arrive on is a seemingly Utopian one, with robots doing all the work, with diseases cured and life-span expanded considerably.
Who wouldn't want to live there? It even fascinates the Doctor (normally the first one to go looking for snakes in the garden). Who wouldn't want to live there? The slaves, upon whose back the entire society is built. Not people. Not aliens. Robots.
Donna is appalled. The Doctor furious.
Both, sadly, condemned to death.
Naturally.
Applying his wits and Donna's compassion, the Doctor stimulates a revolution, and then when the revolution threatens to turn violent, he puts his foot down, threatening to unleash a virus upon the robots and Donna taking a very human solution to the problem.
Sound familiar doesn't it? It's something that he's been doing for roughly 45 years. Most noticeably in one of my personal favourite stories the Happiness Patrol. It's safe. It's fun. It's (in my opinion) quintessential Who.
Kelley Yates is excellent on art, and Kris Carter a colourful addition to the crew.
A for the art.
A for the story.
Overall A.
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