The Twelfth Doctor: Year Two: Sonic Boom

This collection contains two stories: a historical (Terror of the Cabinet Noir) and a space story (Invasion of the Mindmorphs). My favourite Twelfth Doctor comic writer, Robbie Morrison, wrote both of these stories, so I felt they captured the voice of Twelve beautifully. The art was more hit-or-miss, though.

Terror of the Cabinet Noir had a great setting and based on a real-life person, Julie d’Aubigny. The villains were creepy too, but with some humour as well. I also liked that it featured Richelieu given that P-Cap played him in The Musketeers. Great writing, but the art felt weird and Rembrandty, rather shadowy overall but with strangely lit faces. But this may have been an intentional design choice.

Invasion of the Mindmorphs was a silly but entertaining story about the creators of a thinly veiled Doctor Who parody called “the Time Surgeon”, which reads as a bit of a mix of Doctor Who, Austin Powers, maybe the Avengers, and Doctor Strange. The Doctor objects to this comic, so he takes the creators on a trip through time and space to give them better ideas for their work. They end up having to save a planet, in classic Doctor Who fashion. The cheesy parody of the Doctor was amusing, and I laughed out loud at the Doctor’s last line of the story. The art didn’t quite look like the Doctor, but there were a couple of panels that captured his facial expression just right.

The EPUB formatting of my copy was a bit weird — there seems to be a different font for the bold text and the regular text, and the text kept getting squished together, or some letters were moved onto another line. It looked strange in both single-page and dual-page views. Not sure if it was this particular file or something on my end.

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