Mistress of Chaos Part 6

"You have to see reason!"

Writer: Scott Gray

Format: Comic Strip

Released: 6th February 2020

Printed in: DWM 458

Featuring: Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz, Ryan, Graham

Synopsis

The Doctor is faced with becoming the Herald. The Doctor is faced with becoming the Sanity. Neither fates are pleasant with her future set for the Catastrophia. Dogbolter remains unhelpful, but the TARDIS is on its way. Can the Doctor possibly make it out alive?

Verdict

Mistress of Chaos concluded in pretty decent fashion with this sixth and final part! More of it shortly, but I now look ahead to what should be a really good issue of Doctor Who Magazine with it focusing on the series that has aired so far whilst previewing the final four episodes. Don't let the days I post blog entries fool you as I am writing this before Can You Hear Me? has aired and it looks set to be a very good episode. I just hope it isn't too similar to The God Complex. The rest of the previews look to be really intriguing and I look forward to the finale in particular based off its two-part title! Combining Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children is hugely exciting and I am so very much looking forward to it. It will surely tie things together with Fugitive of the Judoon but I'm not expecting the previews to give much away at all. Sacha Dhawan getting interviewed should be fantastic as I am looking forward to reading his thoughts on becoming the Master and the fact that it was kept secret! Peter Purves being the subject of an interview should not disappoint as he's quite the character and I'm also looking forward to the return of Public Image. Although television ratings aren't as important as they used to be, it's always interesting to see how the show is performing against other programmes. The Man Who Drew Yesterday will be a delightful little read and I'm just dreaming of a time where all of the whacky comic stories featuring the first three incarnations of the Doctor can be released in a graphic novel. The Daleks' Master Plan being continued in The Fact of Fiction should be good as I really enjoyed the first instalment in the previous issue. It's a mammoth tale! Street Cred and Shock and Awe look set to be good little features exploring elements of Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror further and I like the idea of focusing on location filming and past Doctor Who. Now, onto the comic strip itself and after a journey of six months, the story finally concludes! It was a good adventure, but it was perhaps a little too long. I don't think it needed to quite be a six-parter as I am hoping for some shorter comics for the Thirteenth Doctor now. She hasn't actually had a great number of stories so far which is strange with how long she's been in the role. I thought the sixth part was actually one of the weakest in the story as after such a long build, things seemed to conclude rather easily. The plan of the Doctor to incorporate two versions of her future self into her current was good, but I wasn't buying the method in which the idea came to her. There wasn't much of a connection. I liked Ryan and Sandola in this part and it was quite nice of the former to go clubbing with the android. She'd have loved that. Graham's reaction also added to that moment. Mother G is someone who's story is surely not told in the comic strips yet because the Doctor knows who she is, or at least what the G stands for, but the readers don't so there must be a reason for that. I look forward to finding out. Graham's speech at the conclusion when the Doctor was set to stay in the Catastrophia was terrific and I thought it was wonderful that he was willing to stay with her. He didn't need to though. The Catastrophia was a place where temporal laws could be anything they wanted to be and that would allow the Doctor to cheat the paradox. It was a slight stretch, but the speech swung me around on it. Overall, a somewhat decent end to what as a whole has been a very good adventure!

Rating: 8/10