Doctor Who Series 1: Winter's Dawn, Season's End

author: Tony Lee

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.31

book published: 2013

rating: 4

read at: 2013/11/27

date added: 2013/11/27

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

At Winter's Dawn begins a story with the 11th Doctor and his companions Amy and Rory. It's the wedding anniversary of Amy and Rory and they want to get away somewhere romantic. The Doctor has other ideas and whisks them away to Victorian England on the eve of the Great Exposition. They find things amiss in the crystal palace when they discover something that shouldn't be there. It ties in with a couple who think they have been communicating with the spirit world, but instead have been speaking with an alien being. The story concludes in Victorian England, but leads to a cliffhanger that is not resolved in this issue.



The backup story is a fun one. Amy decides the boys need a night out by themselves to drink a few beers and bond. This leads them to London in 1814. Amy sets out to sightsee and leaves the Doctor and Rory to their own devices. They decide to speed up the evening with the Tardis which leads to some pretty funny complications. Amy finds herself in the Great Beer Flood of 1814.



Writing by Andy Diggle and Brandon Seifert is very much in keeping with the characters and the stories are reminiscent of ones you might see on the show. The art by Mark Buckingham and Philip Bond is in 2 very different styles, but works for each story. Buckingham's almost seems like rotoscope work and Bond's is more cartoonish, but I liked both styles.



I was giving a review copy by IDW and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for letting me review this graphic novel.







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