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Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time, Volume 1 by Scott Tipton

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This book collects the first four Issues of the 50th Anniversary Prisoners of Time story in which the Doctor's companions disappear, kidnapped by a mysterious foe, at the end of each adventure:

1) Unnatural Selection: The First Doctor travels back in time and meets Thomas Huxley and goes underground to fight the creatures from the Web Planet along with the Ian, Barbara, and Vickie. The story isn't all that engaging. Not bad either: C-

2) Bazaar Adventures: The Second Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe land the TARDIS at the one place where the TARDIS' broken Chameleon circuit will pose no problem: a space mall that sells nothing but Police Boxes. However, not all merchants are so benign and the Doctor and Zoe have to rescue Jamie from the slave trade and stop the horrific trade. A little busy but pretty entertaining. Grade: B

3) In With the Tide: The best story in the book. It really has the most authenticity to its era of any of the tales in this first volume as in a brief comic story, this tale manages to capture the Spirit of a typical UNIT story from the 1970s brilliantly as the Brigadier's behaving strangely and he and Sarah Jane look into it along with Liz Shaw who has returned to UNIT temporarily. I love the art on the front page and the picture of the Third Doctor in a cape. With an alien invasion and the threat of global destruction, all this is missing is some good nature banter from Sgt. Benton. Grade: A-

4)A Rare Gem: An interesting situation for the Fourth Doctor and Leela that has the Fourth Doctor meet the Judoon (who first appeared in the new series.) That's the main appeal of the story, which also features Leela fighting the Judoon which is very cool. What weakens the story is that their presence is superflous as the problem was well in hand and its on way to solving that plus the dialogue for Leela on page 97 (No hard feelings and all that, right?) is something she'd never say. Still, I'll give a grade of C+.

So overall this first volume is a bit of a mixed bag with the third story being best and the rest being decidedly mediocre.



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