Titan Comics launches the second year of ongoing adventures with the Tenth Doctor with the release of Issue #2.1, available in comic stores and online from today. The new story arc offers the ideal jumping on point for new readers and this year Titan promise 14 issues a year, including one double issue special, appearing every four weeks.
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor - Year 2
Issue #2.1 - ‘The Singer Not The Song', Part 1
A fresh new start to an all-new Year Two, as the Tenth Doctor ongoing series takes to the stars!
Looking for rest and relaxation, the Tenth Doctor and companion Gabriella Gonzalez take a trip to Earth Station Presley, a mining platform around an enormous gas giant – and home to one of the most spectacular sensory experiences in the universe!
The gas giant is a perfect example of human colonists living in harmony with indigenous life – in this case, the Shan’tee: conceptual beings perceived by humans as hauntingly beautiful music!
But the Doctor and Gabby are walking straight into a war.
Something has corrupted the song of the Shan’tee – a mysterious signal of unknown origin – and now the human colonists are trapped in a fight for their lives!
Can the Doctor, Gabby, and a synesthetic scientist uncover the truth and bring the war to an end without further bloodshed… or will the song consume them all?
And… why does Gabby feel like the alien foes she’s been facing are starting to rhyme...? Is there something less random and more sinister at work…?
Alternating art team Elena Casagrande and Eleonora Carlini continue their stratospheric rise, while writer Nick Abadzis plots an epic arc for the ages!
Review
Following the time-warping, multi-Doctor event, the Tenth
Doctor and his companion Gabby are back in the TARDIS for a second year of
brand new adventures. It’s business as usual: another deep space settlement,
another mutating alien plague threatening to wipe out all life as we know it.
Perhaps the Doctor needs to steer clear of scientific bases named after
terrestrial rock gods – last time it was Bowie Base, now it’s the Presley Foundation
that is the root of the trouble as an unknown menace threatens to rip a
formerly peaceful colony asunder.
The Doctor has promised Gabby a holiday. It’s guaranteed,
then, that rest and recuperation is the last thing that she’s going to get,
though at first it seems the new world on which they find themselves isn’t so dangerous
after all. Gabby is enthralled with the beauty of this gas dwarf upon which
humans and native species have been living harmoniously. But now a virus,
apparently sent from Earth via the human colonists, is threatening to wipe out
the ethereal Shan’tee and the Bovodrine tree cows and to destroy this
breathtaking planet whose splendour almost overwhelms the senses. The latest
Nick Abadzis adventure unfurls almost immediately into a twofold mystery – who
is behind the attack and what do they hope to gain from the destruction of this
harmless world?
In this new adventure Abadzis introduces the Shan’tee, beings
who exist only as a sensory concept, perceived by humans as music. Such a brief
can’t have been an easy one for an artist to realise; however, Eleanora Carlini
rises to the occasion, illustrating the flowing, spiritual aliens as wraithlike
figures with shades of Miyazaki’s Spirited Away in their concept. The whole world
of Wupatki is rendered with a light touch where the pastel coloured floating
city and the translucent Bovodrine all have an almost dreamlike quality. Everything
is in movement, even the characters’ clothing has a dynamic of its own, hanging
and swirling like classical drapery. This
then is in very stark contrast to the monstrous monochrome nightmare of the
plague victim, and the swirls and lightness of the peaceful world are replaced
by incongruous jagged edges and sound effects where the attack starts to impact
upon the perfect world.
Once again companion Gabby is the reader’s narrative point
in the story as she continues to catalogue her adventures for her earthbound
friend Cindy. Meanwhile, the Doctor is David Tennant’s Time Lord as we best
know him, the clever, respectful alien, who values and protects all deserving
life forms and whom an attacker would be ill-advised to get on the wrong side
of. But with the Doctor off doing what the Doctor does best – sticking up for
the underdog – has he left Gabby vulnerable to a fast-escalating threat?
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