Doctor Who Week Retro-Review: ‘Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: Defender Of The Daleks’ Is Good
by Benjamin Hall
Summary
The Doctor faces the Daleks of a different timeline alone. Without help can the doctor survive a planet full of Daleks. Yet, these Daleks say they require aid from him. Does this mean there is a chance of peace with one enemy species of the Doctor’s?
Overall
7.9/10The Comicon.com team continues our look at the world of the last of the Time Lords, diving deep on a classic crossover event. The Time Lord Victorious was a multimedia event showing what happens when the Doctor allows absolute power to corrupt, absolutely.
Writer Jody Houser does a great job at making the dialogue feel like it is from the 10th Doctor’s era. She also does a good job with characterization by making the characters actions feel true to who they are. The plot is good, but it feels too standard and not like a Time Lord Victorious tale. Thus, the title Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: Defender Of The Daleks is partly a misnomer. However, it may fit better with the full experience of the cross media Time Lord Victorious event that writer Jame Goss has put together the plot of.
Artist Roberta Ingranata creates a sense of time flowing by laying out the panels with select amounts of space between. Although it is debatable how well this works for certain moments, in particular a specific flashback. Ingranata does an amazing job displaying confidence in the line work. When it comes to the Doctor’s facial expressions there is a suitable balance between cartoonish and realism. Arguably without Ingranata being the artist this story’s plot might come across as boring. Yet, because of Ingranata’s decisions for how to draw each scene the narrative feels almost live action.
Colorist Enrica Eren Angiolini along with color flatteners Shari Chankhamma and Sabrina Del Gross provide good applications of the hues. Not to mention that they use palettes that enhance things like the depth of the art as well as the overall art.
Letterer Robert Starkings does a near perfect job of making the text match the pacing of the visuals via the placement. Starkings also does a great job of bolding certain words to add emphasis while not overdoing it.
The cover to the collection is by Lee Binding. It features a mix of photography and coloring that is decent, but is in no way revolutionary.
Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: Defender Of The Daleks is out now from Titan Comics.
