{"id":17642,"date":"2017-12-14T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=17642"},"modified":"2017-12-13T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:20:09","slug":"doctor-who-the-twelfth-doctor-volume-2-fractures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2017\/12\/14\/doctor-who-the-twelfth-doctor-volume-2-fractures\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor volume 2: Fractures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Robbie Morrison<\/strong>, George Mann, Brian Williamson<\/strong>, Mariano Laclaustra<\/strong>, Hi Fi<\/strong> & various (Titan Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-78276-301-7 (HB)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 978-1-78276-659-9 (SC)<\/p>\n

Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: A Timeless Traditional TV-Toned Treat\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

The British love comic strips and they love celebrity and they love \u00e2\u20ac\u0153characters.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The history of our graphic narrative has a peculiarly disproportionate amount of radio comedians, Variety stars and film and television actors such as Charlie Chaplin, Flanagan & Allen, Winifred Atwell, Jimmy Edwards and their ilk as well as actual shows and properties such as Whacko!<\/strong>, ITMA<\/strong>, Old Mother Riley<\/strong>, <\/em>Supercar<\/strong>, <\/em>Pinky and Perky<\/strong> plus hundreds more.<\/p>\n

Anthology comics such as Radio Fun<\/strong>, Film Fun<\/strong>, TV Fun<\/strong>, Look-In<\/strong>, TV Tornado<\/strong>, TV Comic<\/strong> and Countdown<\/strong> translated our viewing and listening favourites into pictorial gold every week, and it was a pretty poor star or show that couldn’t parley the day job into a licensed comic property.<\/p>\n

Doctor Who<\/strong> premiered on black-&-white televisions across the UK with the first episode of ‘An Unearthly Child’<\/em> on November 23rd<\/sup> 1963, and in 1964 his decades-long association with TV Comic <\/strong>began in #674 (the premier instalment of ‘The Klepton Parasites’<\/em>).<\/p>\n

On 11th<\/sup> October 1979 (although adhering to the US off-sale cover-dating system so it says 17th<\/sup>) Marvel’s British subsidiary launched Doctor Who Weekly<\/strong>. It became a monthly magazine in September 1980 (#44) and has been with us – under various names – ever since. All of which only goes to prove that the Time Lord is a comic hero with an impressive pedigree.<\/p>\n

The comicbook division of the Whovian mega-franchise has roamed far and wide and currently rests with Titan Comics who have sagaciously opted to run parallel series starring many individual incarnations of the trickily turbulent Time Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

These tales – starring the Peter Capaldi iteration – comprise issues #6-10 of the monthly periodical plus a short tale from Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor Free Comic Book Day 2015<\/strong> with our tetchy Time Lord still gallivanting all across the universe in the company of schoolteacher and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Impossible Girl\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Clara Oswald<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Scripted by Robbie Morrison (Nikolai Dante<\/strong>, The Authority<\/strong>) and illustrated by Brian Williamson (Torchwood<\/strong>, Primeval<\/strong>, Spider-Man<\/strong>) with assistance from Hi Fi Colour Design, the calamity commences soon after the defeat of self-proclaimed goddess Kali <\/em>(see volume 1)<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Strange occurrences are plaguing the area around Coal Hill Secondary School in Shoreditch, East London where Miss Oswald has a teaching job. They all centre around young Molly<\/em> Foster<\/em> whose dad – a Unified Intelligence Task-Force scientist – recently died in a car crash.<\/p>\n

The family is naturally devastated, but little Molly’s black mood turns quite suddenly after she pulls the somehow not-deceased Dr. Foster out of a hole in the air\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

When the TARDIS alarms reveal that something is trying to tear down the walls of the Multiverse, Clara and the Doctor warp into UNIT HQ and find the militarised boffins have been meddling with Foster’s last experiment\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a Trans-Reality Gate\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Molly has no idea that the Daddy she’s hiding from the rest of the bereaved family in the shed in the garden comes from a parallel world where he was the only survivor of the traffic wreck. Paul only knows he’s found his lost loved ones again. The Doctor knows the reality breaches are eroding the crucial interdimensional barriers preserving Reality.<\/p>\n

Nobody has any notion that the universes have their own safeguards and upholders of the Laws of Reality until merciless energy beings calling themselves ‘The Fractures’<\/em> leak into our dimension, possess humans and start hunting for the transgressors: Paul Foster, little Molly and anyone aiding and abetting them.<\/p>\n

Since he considers Earth under his personal protection, The Doctor – despite utterly disapproving of Foster’s experiment and familial sentimentality – is resolved that the rampaging Fractures’ brutal police action will not go unpunished\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Bombastic ultra-cosmic invasion and last-ditch combat action gives way to cool wit, slick moves and devious criminal intent as ‘Gangland’<\/em> (with additional art by Mariano Laclaustra) sees Clara and The Doctor pop back to 1963 Las Vegas to catch a concert by the inimitable \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wolf Pack\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Frankie, Dino and the Boys are blithely unaware that their Mafioso employers are in a spot of extraterrestrial bother\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Millenia previously, the Hyperion War between the universe’s great races ended with the chief Time Lord employing a deadly chronal gun in a game of chance with Count D’if<\/em> of the Cybock Imperium. The gambit – known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rassilon’s Roulette\u00e2\u20ac\u009d – ensured Gallifreyan dominance for uncounted eons.<\/p>\n

Now, however, the surviving Cybock octoids have stolen Rassilon’s legendary pistol and created a gangster syndicate on Earth. The intention is to subjugate the planet and reconstitute their Imperium as a criminal enterprise through which they can ultimately conquer the galaxy, but they have not counted on the ruthless greed and stubbornness of Earth mobsters, the devil-may-care pluck of drunken entertainers or the deadly wiles of the last Time Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Scripted by George Mann and illustrated by Laclaustra & Luis Guerrero, ‘The Body Electric’<\/em> comes from Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor Free Comic Book Day 2015<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Short, sharp and shocking, the tale reveals how the Time Lord and Clara arrive on quartz planet Asmoray<\/em> just as the humans mining the world for its electricity begin dying. It doesn’t take the grumbling Gallifreyan long to determine that the world is neither lifeless nor exclusively owned by humanity. Then all he has to do is stop two species eradicating each other\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

All in a day’s work really\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Enthrallingly entertaining and wickedly witty, this titanic time-space tome comes with a gallery of alternate and variant covers by Blair Shedd, Brian Williamson & Luis Guerrero, Rian Hughes and AJ, so if you’re a fervent fan of the television Time Lord, this book – also available as a digital download – could well make you an addict of the print iteration too.<\/p>\n

Fractures<\/strong> is a splendid romp for casual readers, a fine additional avenue for devotees of the TV show to explore and a perfect opportunity to cross-promote comics to anyone minded to give strip sagas another go\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nBBC, Doctor Who (word marks, logos and devices) and Tardis are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation and are used under licence. BBC logo \u00c2\u00a9 BBC 1996. Doctor Who logo \u00c2\u00a9 BBC 2009. Tardis image \u00c2\u00a9 BBC 1963. First edition April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Robbie Morrison, George Mann, Brian Williamson, Mariano Laclaustra, Hi Fi & various (Titan Comics) ISBN: 978-1-78276-301-7 (HB)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 978-1-78276-659-9 (SC) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: A Timeless Traditional TV-Toned Treat\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 8\/10 The British love comic strips and they love celebrity and they love \u00e2\u20ac\u0153characters.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The history of our graphic narrative has a peculiarly disproportionate amount of … <\/p>\n

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