Kill God

"Killing Gods. It's not possible..."

Writer: Rob Williams
Format: Comic Strip
Released: 15th January 2017
Printed in: DWC: Tales from the TARDIS 15

Featuring: War Doctor, Alice,

Synopsis

Filled with new purpose, and information straight from the mouth of the War Doctor himself, Alice is closing in on the truth of the Doctor's possible war crime. But can the Master truly be trusted? And will the truth about the Squire finally be revealed? The Time War holds all the answers.

Verdict

Kill God was an excellent comic strip adventure that has continued along the Eleventh Doctor segment of Doctor Who Comic's Tales from the TARDIS very nicely! Now, it has been far too long since I read The Organ Grinder but after reading my own blog entry to freshen the memory of just where the story is currently at, memories came flooding back and I was very excited to be heading back to the Time War. The Eleventh Doctor didn't actually appear but that was absolutely fine as it gave us another adventure with the War Doctor! That is something I always welcome and with these comics, as well as a novel and the audios, this incarnation of the Doctor has now been beefed out with stories and really doesn't feel much like a bonus Doctor now. He's just another one on the list which is brilliant. Of course, John Hurt sadly passed away since I read the last comic strip of the run but the beauty of the comic strip means that the War Doctor will live forever. I thought the characterisation of John Hurt's incarnation was very good and I like how he is rather clueless about who Alice is and what she was doing in the Time War. The continuation from the previous story's cliffhanger was great and I liked the conversation Alice and the Master had regarding gods. I'm a firm non-believer in gods and I think the whole notion is actually quite ridiculous but it works in Doctor Who because at the end of the day it is fiction and that's what I see religion as. Until people can prove otherwise with evidence then I can't see how I'm wrong. Anyway, the young Master still very much intrigues me and that was taken further by the image of the older and more familiar incarnation of the great villain. I think that was just something along the lines of time leakage with the speech also being affected in regards to tenses. That made for some brief difficulty in reading but it was highlighting a point of the Time War so that was not a problem at all. The Overcastes looked very impressive I must say but they didn't really seem to do much. Despite that, they still managed to provide a huge threat and the Doctor's way of dealing them seemed absolutely horrific. It is clear to see why he has revoked his name for this incarnation because to eliminate their threat he was going to make an entire people godless and change their entire history. Alice having to deal with the latest contraption from the Volatix Cabal was intriguing and I'm not even sure you could call what she was being chased by anything close to a Dalek. I loved its referral to the Doctor as the Dark Lord though. That really was brilliant. The idea of the Doctor and the Master having an agreement did seem too good to be true and that was somewhat realised in this story as the latter went his own ways and seeked to escape from the Time War. He knew Alice was from the future so had a route to escape to. But when he entered his own ship of the future and tried to take off, he created a paradox. He soon realised that his future self had concocted the atrocity of a TARDIS and that together with Alice activating the Psilent Songbox meant a disaster for everybody. Timelines were collapsing and merging and there was a complete chronal meltdown. It served as a terrific cliffhanger and I'm looking forward to seeing where things go from here! Overall, an excellent comic strip adventure!

Rating: 9/10