{"id":28575,"date":"2023-09-03T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=28575"},"modified":"2023-09-01T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:35:13","slug":"doctor-who-volume-11-cold-day-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2023\/09\/03\/doctor-who-volume-11-cold-day-in-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who volume 11: Cold Day in Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Simon Furman<\/strong>, Mike Collins<\/strong>, Grant Morrison<\/strong>, John Freeman<\/strong>, Dan Abnett<\/strong>, Richard Alan & John Carnell<\/strong>, Alan Grant<\/strong>, John Ridgway<\/strong>, Kev Hopgood<\/strong>, Tim Perkins<\/strong>, Geoff Senior<\/strong>, David Hine<\/strong>, Bryan Hitch<\/strong>, John Higgins<\/strong>, Lee Sullivan<\/strong>, Dougie Braithewaite<\/strong> & Dave Elliott<\/strong>, Andy Lanning<\/strong>, Martin Griffiths & Cam Smith<\/strong> & various (Panini Books)
\nISBN: 978-1-84653-410-2 (TPB)<\/p>\n

Despite the volatile vagaries of quantumly entanglementation, if you generally experience reality in a sequential manner, this year <\/em>remains the 60th<\/sup><\/em> Anniversary of Doctor Who<\/em>. <\/em>Thus there is\/has been\/will be a bunch of Timey-Wimey stuff on-going as we periodically celebrate a unique TV and comics institution\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

The British love comic strips, adore \u201ccharacters\u201d and are addicted to celebrity. The history of our homegrown graphic narratives includes an astounding number of comedians, Variety stars and television actors: such disparate legends as Charlie Chaplin, Arthur Askey, Charlie Drake and so many more I\u2019ve long forgotten and you\u2019ve likely never heard of.<\/p>\n

As much adored and adapted were actual shows and properties like Whacko!<\/strong>, Supercar<\/strong>, Thunderbirds<\/strong>, Pinky and Perky<\/strong>, The Clangers<\/strong> and literally hundreds of others. If folk watched or listened, an enterprising publisher made printed spectacles of them. Hugely popular anthology comics including Radio Fun<\/strong>, Film Fun<\/strong>, TV Fun<\/strong>, Look-In<\/strong>, TV Comic<\/strong>, TV<\/strong> Tornado<\/strong>, and Countdown<\/strong> readily and regularly translated our light entertainment favourites into pictorial joy every week, and it was a pretty poor star or show that couldn\u2019t parley the day job into a licensed strip property\u2026<\/p>\n

Doctor Who<\/strong> premiered on black-&-white televisions across Britain on November 23rd<\/sup> 1963 with the premiere episode of \u2018An Unearthly Child\u2019<\/em>. In 1964, a decades-long association with TV Comic<\/strong> began: issue #674 heralding the initial instalment of \u2018The Klepton Parasites\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On 11th<\/sup> October 1979 (although adhering to the US off-sale cover-dating system so it says 17th<\/sup>), Marvel\u2019s UK subsidiary launched Doctor Who Weekly<\/strong>. Turning monthly magazine in September 1980 (#44) it\u2019s been with us – in various names and iterations – ever since. All of which proves the Time Lord is a comic star of impressive pedigree and not to be trifled with.<\/p>\n

Panini\u2019s UK division ensured the immortality of the comics feature by collecting all strips of every Time Lord Regeneration in a uniform series of over-sized graphic albums.<\/p>\n

Each concentrates on a particular incarnation of the deathless wanderer and this one gathers stories originally published in the early 1990s (from Doctor Who Monthly<\/strong> #130-150): a time when regular illustrator John Ridgway gave way to a succession of rotating creators as part of the company\u2019s urgent drive to cut costs – although there\u2019s no appreciable drop in quality that I can see.<\/p>\n

These yarns feature the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy): an all monochrome compendium that kicks off with the eponymous \u2018Cold Day in Hell!\u2019<\/em> by writer Simon Furman, Ridgway and inker Tim Perkins: a 4-part thriller featuring an attack by Martian Ice Warriors<\/em> on a tropical resort planet, which leads directly into the moody, single story \u2018Redemption!\u2019<\/em> care of Furman, Kev Hopgood and Perkins.<\/p>\n

At that time and in this book Marvel sanctioned some controversial crossovers with other Marvel UK characters. The first of these is Death\u2019s Head<\/strong>: a robot bounty hunter from the Transformers<\/strong> comic guest-starring in Furman & Geoff Senior\u2019s \u2018The Crossroads of Time\u2019<\/em> (DWM<\/strong> #135), before it\u2019s back to sounder stuff with freak-filled 3-part Victorian Great Exhibition epic \u2018Claws of the Klath!\u2019<\/em> (Mike Collins, Hopgood & David Hine).<\/p>\n

Fresh-faced scribe Grant Morrison wrote of charmingly different \u2018Culture Shock!\u2019<\/em> for equally neophytic ascending star Bryan Hitch to draw, before John Higgins limned Furman\u2019s \u2018Keepsake\u2019<\/em>: a classy space opera about an indigent salvage man. John Freeman & Lee Sullivan started a long association with the magazine in 2-parter \u2018Planet of the Dead\u2019<\/em> (DWM<\/strong> #141-142), featuring an ambitious, spooky team-up of all seven Time Lord regenerations, on a world filled with Companions who had died in their service\u2026<\/p>\n

Dan Abnett & Ridgway delivered \u2018Echoes of the Mogor!\u2019<\/em> (DWM<\/strong> #143-144) – an eerie chiller set on a mining planet where Earth workers are mysteriously dying, whilst \u2018Time and Tide\u2019<\/em> by Richard Alan & John Carnell, illustrated by Dougie Braithewaite & Dave Elliott (DWM<\/strong> #143-144), maroons the Doctor on a drowning world amongst aliens who don\u2019t seem to care if they live or die\u2026<\/p>\n

Carnell wrote the other crossover previously mentioned, a far less well-regarded romp with imbecilic detectives The Sleeze Brothers<\/strong>. \u2018Follow that Tardis!<\/em>\u2018 was illustrated by Andy Lanning, Higgins, Braithwaite & Elliot, before the strip content concludes with Alan Grant\u2019s 3-part \u2018Invaders from Gantac!\u2019<\/em>, wherein a colony of alien torturers invade 1992 London by mistake in a tale as much comedy as thriller, drawn by Martin Griffiths & Cam Smith.<\/p>\n

Supplemented with tons of text features, pin-ups, creator-biographies and commentaries, this is a grand book for casual readers, a fine shelf addition for fans of the show and a perfect opportunity to cross-promote our particular art-form to anyone minded to give comics one more go\u2026
\nAll Doctor Who material \u00a9 BBCtv. Doctor Who, the Tardis and all logos are trademarks of the British broadcasting corporation and are used under licence. Death\u2019s Head and The Sleeze Brothers \u00a9 Marvel. Published 2009. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Simon Furman, Mike Collins, Grant Morrison, John Freeman, Dan Abnett, Richard Alan & John Carnell, Alan Grant, John Ridgway, Kev Hopgood, Tim Perkins, Geoff Senior, David Hine, Bryan Hitch, John Higgins, Lee Sullivan, Dougie Braithewaite & Dave Elliott, Andy Lanning, Martin Griffiths & Cam Smith & various (Panini Books) ISBN: 978-1-84653-410-2 (TPB) Despite the … <\/p>\n

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