I am a huge fan of Dr Who, especially the Tenth and Thirteenth Doctor and this graphic novel did not disappoint me in the least.

I like the way each doctor even though they are technically the same person although regenerated have a totally different persona and you could definitely see this in the graphic novel with their ism’s.

The Tardis on its way gets caught in a paradox and history has been rewritten. The Sea Devils have taken over Earth and now the humans are their slaves. It is up to the Doctor’s and their teams to fix it.

At the beginning of the book there is a little bit about what happened previously, and it also a bit about each character which is helpful if you have not been following the TV Shows and are totally new to Dr Who.

All of the characters have been illustrated really well, I could tell who they were as they were so close the real life.
If you are familiar with Rose and the Tenth Doctors story you will also feel pulled to it, when she doesn’t even know who he is.

The storyline is as I would have expected, aliens, saving the world with the help of their friends and the doctors characters shining out.

Absolutely brilliant!
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https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/alternating-current-by-jody-houser-roberta-ingra...

I’ve seen some rather negative reviews of this online, but I really enjoyed it – another story of the Tenth and Thirteenth Doctors coming together, with a parallel timeline where Rose Tyler is leading human resistance to the Sea Devils, and also a return to the more recent story Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror. Houser catches a lovely dynamic between the two Doctors, in general it’s well realised by the artists, and I thought it was a lot of fun. ( )

This follows on directly from A Little Help from My Friends: returning to the present day, the thirteenth Doctor and fam discover that the Earth was taken over by Sea Devils in the past; at the same time, the tenth Doctor learns the same thing, even encountering an alternative Rose Tyler who is a resistance fighter. Supposedly this happened because of the events of Little Help, but exactly how two Doctors meeting in the 1960s would have lead to an alternative timeline is never explained; characters just keep saying "paradox" again and again... but what is the actual paradox here? Even by Doctor Who terms, this didn't cut it for me. After two issues of Sea Devil avoidance, it suddenly switches gears entirely and becomes about going back in time and recreating the events of "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"... but why? The story doesn't do anything interesting with the events of that episode, and again, how would shenanigans in the 1960s cause the Skithra attack on New York in the 1903 to happen differently? I don't know, it's all pretty blah and unsatisfying.

Also Ingranata continues Titan's proud tradition of Star Trek: Voyager swipes: the Skithra engine core is very obviously Voyager's warp core.

I guess injecting the tenth Doctor into the thirteenth Doctor series must have caused a sale boost, but this has taken an already mediocre series and made it even worse. And evidently not enough of a sales boost, because after this, the (I think somewhat weirdly titled) Doctor Who Comic became a rotating anthology series, dropping the thirteenth Doctor.

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