Daniel Indro

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-weeping-angels-of-mons-by-robbie-morrison-da...

Next in the sequence of Tenth Doctor comics, continuing his adventures with New Yorker Gabby Gonzalez. Most of the album is taken up with the title story, which on the face of it looks well qualified for my list of Belgium references in Doctor Who, except that most of the action is explicitly set across the border in the (fictional) French town of St Michel. Gabby gets a bit more character development here, and knowing as we do what the ultimate fate of Amy and Rory is, the Angels are a source of real menace. A shorter story at the end, Echo, takes Gabby back to New York to fend off an alien threat and reconnect with her family. Enjoyable stuff.… (mere)

Het begint met een gedegen spookverhaal met wat blijkt een wereldberoemd personage.
Dit wordt gevolgd door The Hyperion Empire, het actievolle hoofdverhaal met veel explosies, zombies, vuurmonsters en een brandweerman.

Het belangrijkste aan Doctor Who strips vind ik dat ik de specifieke Doctor, in dit geval de twaalfde, wil kunnen herkennen. Qua tekeningen voldoet het daar in dit deel lang niet altijd aan. Maar door zijn manier van doen is hij te herkennen uit duizenden. Daardoor geeft het lezen een vertrouwd gevoel.

De twee verhalen zijn niet bijster origineel maar wel heel vermakelijk.… (mere)

This comic features the Doctor’s scariest enemies, the Weeping Angels. If you’re like me, you’ll probably be not blinking for most of your reading. I yelled out loud when the comic revealed how one character prevented himself from blinking. Yikes! The First World War setting was a good one, and it was interesting to see where people ended up when they had been attacked by the Weeping Angels. I liked the writing and the Scottish connections—Robbie Morrison is easily my favourite Doctor Who comics writer. I was less interested in the smaller story, Echoes; the art was less interesting and because the story was shorter, there wasn’t much to it. It was fine, but The Weeping Angels of Mons was definitely better. The only thing Mons did not have enough of was the biplanes featured on the cover!… (mere)

When they were introduced in the classic Who episode “Blink” the Weeping Angels were a great concept, but I felt their subsequent reuse in the TV series devalued their impact. But their use here makes total sense.

If there had to be a follow up Angels story, then this was the right one. The battlefields of WW1 makes the perfect setting for the Doctor’s reencounter with these iconic creatures.

It’s a heart-felt poignant story of duty, and sacrifice that hits all the right notes of classic Who.… (mere)