The Glorious Dead

End Game, the first of these collections of the eighth Doctor comics I remember being fairly average, but the second, with the change in writer from Alan Barnes to Scott Gray, is very good indeed. I would say that Doctor Who is made for the comic medium, but it's also made for the televisual and audio media, so that's not a very noteworthy distinction-- but suffice it to say, that Doctor Who, with all the strange possibilities that it creates, works very well in comics. This volume is no exception, giving us chases beneath London, kick-butt Cyberman/Sontaran action, introspection in feudal Japan, wacky autonomous robots, and, of course, the masterpiece that is The Glorious Dead itself-- a ten-part epic that would fit right in with any of the new series' grand finales. In a good way. The eighth Doctor is on fine form, Izzy is Rose before there was Rose, and who doesn't love Kroton the Cyberman? The wonderful art by Adrian Salmon, Martin Geraghty, and Roger Landridge doesn't hurt either.