Showing posts with label Cris Bolson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cris Bolson. Show all posts

Monday, March 27, 2017

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #11 - A Preview/Review

The Hesguard Institute is the most secure facility of its kind. Located in the heart of a time storm, is is all but impossible to reach without a specially shielded ship and even harder to escape. Not that its inmates - who include the most violent and criminally insane minds known to humanity - have any desire to escape. Not since the development of The Bad Wolf Process, which purges the negative emotions from their minds. Of course one of their inmates - a murderer with multiple personalities known only as The Doctor - is proving far more resistant than any other subject they've treated.

What happened to The Doctor? How did he come to be arrested for the murder of his companion, UNIT Agent Tara Mishra, in 53rd Century deep space? Can Rose Tyler - now masquerading as an official conducting a surprise inspection - rescue him? And what of the mysterious Sin-Eaters - the "blank" beings that take on the negative traits of the treated?






Cavan Scott has done it again! This issue's story hooked me from the first page and left me wanting for more at the last. Scott's scripts are equaled only by the artwork of Cris Bolson, who perfectly captures the likenesses of the actors and presents the action of the issue in all its splendor and horror. Both creators - along with colorist Marco Lesko - have captured the essence of the Ninth Doctor era of Doctor Who and present their tale masterfully.

This first chapter of Sin-Eaters is a perfect entry point to the series for those Whovians who have yet to give the comic-based adventures of The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler a try. I'd advise against those unfamiliar with the show making this their first Doctor Who comic to read - there's a little too much assumption that the reader knows certain facts regarding The Doctor's previous lives - but long time fans of the show will love this issue!

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #11 releases on March 29, 2016. 
 Ask for it at your local comic shop or purchase it on Comixology.com.

Monday, November 21, 2016

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #7 - An Advanced Review/Preview

The Doctor, Rose Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness have tracked one monster into the past only to find a bigger problem - literally, as England is besieged by kaiju straight from a Japanese monster movie! Some of The Doctor's old friends from UNIT are on the case but they're equally overwhelmed by a pompous Defense Minister, who is out to shut down UNIT in favor of a privatized alien fighting force. Lost in the middle of all of this is a missing scientist, whose family Captain Jack and Sergeant Benton will have to save from one of the monsters...





The artwork on this issue is a vast improvement over Issue #6. There is a high level of clarity throughout, with no exaggeration nor loss of detail in the far and middle distances. Cris Bolson demonstrates all the skills of a fantastic caricaturist. The likenesses of the core cast from the show are well presented and the old familiar faces from UNIT do indeed look familiar.

Cavan Scott continues to proves his skill as a storyteller, seeming to capture the voices of all the individual characters perfectly. From The Doctor's half-muttered comments on the stupid apes he's trying to save to the enthusiastic naivety of Harry "The Imbecile" Sullivan, every page of this seems like a lost Terrance Dicks script produced during the Russell T. Davies era of Doctor Who.


Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #7 releases on Novemeber 23th, 2016.
Ask for it at your local comic shop or purchase it on Comixology.com.