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prof_pangaea) wrote2008-09-12 05:47 pm
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doctor who: the forgotten no. 1, or: MARTHAAAAAAA
finally got the first issue of the forgotten from my local comic shop yesterday AND GUYS IT IS AWESOME. look at this gorgeousness:
i still haven't finished the first doctor who miniseries that IDW put out, because the art kept hurting my soul. i can't say that gary russell's writing was giving me much else to hang onto, either. as i haven't finished the series yet i'm not sure whether that may have changed by the last couple of issues, but i *can* say that tony lee's writing hooked me straight-away, left me looking forward to the next issue (an rereading this one a few times), and even had me jumping around my bed at one point. nerdily!
if you want to see even more awesome images from the first issue (i especially love this one from the first page) you should go to the interview that tony lee did with comic book resources here. i obviously did this months ago and saved every picture to my hard drive in a fit of fanboy glee, but other people may have missed it due to having a life or something. anyway: guys, i am all about this!
doctor: "i'm a time lord! i'm over 900 years old! i have no idea where i am! i keep falling over, too. ow."
martha: "yeah i noticed since i keep having to haul your arse around whenever you do. business as usual there, then!"
doctor: "is that a seal of rassilon on the wall? i feel as if i should be more concerned about this, but page limit constraints require me to remark on the next curious thing so we can advance the story. i should probably be worried about how the TARDIS is missing too -- oh look, an oldprop artifact!"
and then we get into a mysterious plot involving a museum dedicated to the doctor and places he's visited, and someone who is trying to weaken the doctor by wiping away all of his memories up until his last regeneration. which gives us a handy excuse for lengthy flashback sequences of win, like the one in this issue with ian, barbara, susan, and some egyptians:
this is why ian and barbara are made of perpetual win. if you could harness their win, it would be a renewable energy source that could power cities.
and of course the same can be said of martha, except maybe even moreso! tony lee really captures ten and martha's strange season three dynamic, where the doctor is alternately open and playful, then closed off and touchy -- though never to the problematic levels that season three itself indulged in. martha is determined and smart and inquiring --
and the doctor is king of deflection, as usual. but doesn't he look good kneeling in front of martha like that? RAWR.
even when he is being avoidant he can't help telling martha things (possibly for plot related reasons BUT STILL):
there's something really poignant about these panels, and how the doctor really does seem like a tired, old man here.
but who, WHO could be wiping away the doctor's memories? and why?
...
yeah, this was the part where i may have lost my dignity slightly, what with the jumping about and yelling. thankfully no one was around to observe it. i am doubting it will be who i WANT it to be, not just because it would be WAY TOO AWESOME, but because he would probably never be caught dead in pinstripes. of course, then my brain comes up with crack theories like "doctor, did a future version of yourself grow a goatee because you missed your evil ex-boyfriend, and travel back to your own past to try and kill your past self?" OBVS THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN. EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE TIME.
i have to say that, having seen some of pia guerra's inks for this issue in the interview i linked above, i am really wondering about IDW's printing practises. it almost looks like they gave photocopies to the colourist, or somebody should have taken a lot more care when they were adjusting the threshold level of the scans. the inks in the finished comic just seem a lot less delicate than even the norm from converting a drawing into a printed page, and the super slick paper they're printed on just serves to emphasise this. however, charlie kirchoff does a pretty nice job with the colours, creating the sense of a starkly, artificially lit museum, and adding texture to the simple backgrounds. pia guerra gets the likenesses of the characters fairly well, but more importantly, her artwork has a real sense of how a humanoid body moves, or doesn't, as the case may be.
so to summarise: GUYS BUY THIS BOOK AND SUPPORT AWESOME DOCTOR WHO COMICS.
i still haven't finished the first doctor who miniseries that IDW put out, because the art kept hurting my soul. i can't say that gary russell's writing was giving me much else to hang onto, either. as i haven't finished the series yet i'm not sure whether that may have changed by the last couple of issues, but i *can* say that tony lee's writing hooked me straight-away, left me looking forward to the next issue (an rereading this one a few times), and even had me jumping around my bed at one point. nerdily!
if you want to see even more awesome images from the first issue (i especially love this one from the first page) you should go to the interview that tony lee did with comic book resources here. i obviously did this months ago and saved every picture to my hard drive in a fit of fanboy glee, but other people may have missed it due to having a life or something. anyway: guys, i am all about this!
doctor: "i'm a time lord! i'm over 900 years old! i have no idea where i am! i keep falling over, too. ow."
martha: "yeah i noticed since i keep having to haul your arse around whenever you do. business as usual there, then!"
doctor: "is that a seal of rassilon on the wall? i feel as if i should be more concerned about this, but page limit constraints require me to remark on the next curious thing so we can advance the story. i should probably be worried about how the TARDIS is missing too -- oh look, an old
and then we get into a mysterious plot involving a museum dedicated to the doctor and places he's visited, and someone who is trying to weaken the doctor by wiping away all of his memories up until his last regeneration. which gives us a handy excuse for lengthy flashback sequences of win, like the one in this issue with ian, barbara, susan, and some egyptians:
this is why ian and barbara are made of perpetual win. if you could harness their win, it would be a renewable energy source that could power cities.
and of course the same can be said of martha, except maybe even moreso! tony lee really captures ten and martha's strange season three dynamic, where the doctor is alternately open and playful, then closed off and touchy -- though never to the problematic levels that season three itself indulged in. martha is determined and smart and inquiring --
and the doctor is king of deflection, as usual. but doesn't he look good kneeling in front of martha like that? RAWR.
even when he is being avoidant he can't help telling martha things (possibly for plot related reasons BUT STILL):
there's something really poignant about these panels, and how the doctor really does seem like a tired, old man here.
but who, WHO could be wiping away the doctor's memories? and why?
...
yeah, this was the part where i may have lost my dignity slightly, what with the jumping about and yelling. thankfully no one was around to observe it. i am doubting it will be who i WANT it to be, not just because it would be WAY TOO AWESOME, but because he would probably never be caught dead in pinstripes. of course, then my brain comes up with crack theories like "doctor, did a future version of yourself grow a goatee because you missed your evil ex-boyfriend, and travel back to your own past to try and kill your past self?" OBVS THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN. EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE TIME.
i have to say that, having seen some of pia guerra's inks for this issue in the interview i linked above, i am really wondering about IDW's printing practises. it almost looks like they gave photocopies to the colourist, or somebody should have taken a lot more care when they were adjusting the threshold level of the scans. the inks in the finished comic just seem a lot less delicate than even the norm from converting a drawing into a printed page, and the super slick paper they're printed on just serves to emphasise this. however, charlie kirchoff does a pretty nice job with the colours, creating the sense of a starkly, artificially lit museum, and adding texture to the simple backgrounds. pia guerra gets the likenesses of the characters fairly well, but more importantly, her artwork has a real sense of how a humanoid body moves, or doesn't, as the case may be.
so to summarise: GUYS BUY THIS BOOK AND SUPPORT AWESOME DOCTOR WHO COMICS.