Boo Cook

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/serve-you-by-al-ewing-rob-williams-et-al/

Second in the sequence of Titan Eleventh Doctor comics, continuing his adventures with recently bereaved London librarian Alice, anonymous musician Jones and chameleon entity ARC. Alice is much more interesting than the other two and gets much more plot, especially when her dead mother appears to come back. The standout however is the first episode where time starts running backwards – this has been done a couple of times before in Who, but it’s difficult to do well and it is carried off with aplomb.… (mehr)

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/after-life-by-al-ewing-et-al/

First of the 2014 line of Eleventh Doctor comics by Titan, this introduces a new companion, Alice Obiefune from Hackney, as a regular Tardis traveller along with invisible musician John Jones and an alien entity called ARC. I like the new dynamic between the primaries, but the other two companions seem a bit superfluous, and the historical story set in the segregated Deep South pulls its punches. Pleasing enough, good art.… (mehr)

Absolutely loved this. The Eleventh Doctor’s voice and expressions are spot on, and I loved Alice from the get-go, how she took things in stride when travelling with the Doctor. I liked that they time travelled to famous gigs and saw the first gig of a young man who clearly is modelled on David Bowie. His draft version of “Space Oddity” had me cackling, because I am secretly four. I also liked how the chapters built on each other but felt self-contained as well, so that if you’d had to wait a while between issues, there wouldn’t be too much to catch up on. Lovely stuff. Looking forward to Volume 2!… (mehr)