The Power of the Mobox Part 2

"No rest for the winners."

Writer: Scott Gray
Format: Comic Strip
Released: 25th July 2019
Printed in: DWM 541

Featuring: Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz, Ryan, Graham

Synopsis

Ryan awakes from his horrific fall to find that his friends are nowhere in sight. He catches some strange robots clearing up the Mobox corpses following the mag storm. His investigation is under way. Meanwhile, the Doctor is carrying out her own investigation and suspicions start to be had concerning Governor K'Laas.

Verdict

The Power of the Mobox continued in very decent fashion with this second part! More of that shortly though as I look ahead at this month's DWM issue. It looks set to be quite a unique issue with a massive focus on the works of Christopher Barry with a collection. The use of an archive and details regarding some classic stories looks superb and I really can't wait to delve into it! I'm particularly looking forward to reading what collections he had from The Daleks, The Power of the Daleks and The Brain of Morbius as they are three excellent stories! In saying that, I'm probably equally as excited to read about The Savages, Robot and The Creature From the Pit as they're stories I probably know less about the making of and its impact. Either way, this looks exciting! David Bradley being the interviewee for Out of the TARDIS should be wonderful as he is a great actor and whilst I wasn't the biggest fan of his First Doctor from Twice Upon a Time, I absolutely adored him in An Adveture in Space and Time as William Hartnell. I'm also a big fan of his Walder Frey in Game of Thrones so I'm very excited to read it! I'm interested to see how a modern era two-parter is tackled in The Fact of Fiction with the excellent The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon the subject. With the continuation of the Jon Pertwee interview as well, this looks set to be quite the stellar issue! I'm very much looking forward to diving into it. Well, I have already opened its pages and read the comic strip that this comic strip is the blog entry's purpose and I very much enjoyed it. I was glad that a lot of it was focused on Ryan after he was absent for a lot of the first part and I was intrigued by the robots he saw clearing up the Mobox. The later revelation that they were in control of the 'freak' mag storms was most unexpected and I look forward to seeing how that goes in next month's finale. I thought the characterisation of the Thirteenth Doctor was very good in this part with her taking on the manner of the investigator wonderfully well. The way she jumped out at Rodney when she clocked that he was following her was terrific and the comedy that came with his high blood-pressure fuelled reaction was great. The resolution from the cliffhanger with Yaz and Graham literally being spat back into existence by the Mobox was most unexpected. Their ability to basically scream a transmat beam was quite the trait and I hope something further occurs with it because it's rather unique. I like that. Yaz and Graham wanting to find Ryan was good to see, but they became the basis of another pretty decent cliffhanger. With it revealed that the storms were not actually natural, Yaz and Graham seemed in grave danger as they were activated with no shelter in sight We've already seen the damage they did at the start of part one. The Doctor discovering a mysterious underground system in the basement was also intriguing and I'm really liking all of the mystery as we head into the third and final part. Overall, a very good continuation of what is becoming a great story.