Doctor Who - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:54:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Doctor Who - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 A frustrating finale for fans in Doctor Who’s ‘The Reality War’ https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/05/doctor-who-reality-war/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52928 Margot Waldman: When I started this series of reviews, I got something really pretty desperately wrong. I said that Russell T Davies had nothing to prove to me or to anyone else about Doctor Who. But I’ve realized that, no, he did. He had a big damn thing to prove because he had to prove...

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]]> 52928 Giant spectral bone horse-dinosaurs in Doctor Who’s ‘Wish World’ https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/25/doctor-who-wish-world/ Sun, 25 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52825 Armaan Babu: It’s the end of the world as we don’t know it. The Rani has swept in, and wasted little time in making and unmaking reality, ready to tear the world apart just to find whoever she’s looking for. It’s a hell of an episode, and the most I’ve enjoyed the series in a...

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]]> 52825 Graham Norton forebodes in Doctor Who’s ‘The Interstellar Song Contest’ https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/18/doctor-who-interstellar-song-contest/ Sun, 18 May 2025 17:22:44 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52677 Armaan Babu: I skipped watching the Eurovision finale, but it appears that no matter where you hide, Eurovision will find you. This week, on Doctor Who, Eurovision plays out for over 3 trillion fans across the universe. Margot, are you one of those fans? Margot Waldman: So. Look.  I have never watched Eurovision because Eurovision...

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]]> 52677 When is a barbershop not a barbershop? When it’s Doctor Who’s ‘The Story and the Engine’ https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/11/doctor-who-the-story-and-the-engine/ Sun, 11 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52580 Armaan Babu: If any story is told for long enough, you’re going to come to a part of it that tells you how important stories are. Writers can’t help themselves, and in their defense, they’re not wrong. Stories matter, and stories have power. Where critics like us come in is that we recognize that while...

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]]> 52580 It’s not Ruby Sunday’s ‘Lucky Day’ on Doctor Who https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/04/doctor-who-lucky-day/ Sun, 04 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52450 Margot Waldman: It’s a strange thing to have a “Doctor-lite” episode in a season as short as this one is – but then, we had one last year in “73 Yards,” another ripped-from-the-headlines political drama (I’m not the first reviewer to compare these two episodes, not by a long shot)! I thought “73 Yards” was...

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]]> 52450 Don’t turn your back on Doctor Who’s ‘The Well’ https://comicsxf.com/2025/04/29/doctor-who-the-well/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:32:23 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52388 Margot Waldman: On their quest to get back home to May 2025, the Doctor and Belinda make a slight detour 500,000 years in the future – and into what I think has been the strongest episode of the season so far. What do you think, Armaan? Armaan Babu: I’m behind you 100%. Well, behind-adjacent, as...

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]]> 52388 Doctor Who gets animated in ‘Lux’ https://comicsxf.com/2025/04/21/doctor-who-lux/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52297 The quest to get Belinda home leads to an abandoned cinema hiding a terrifying secret in Disney’s Doctor Who Season 2, Episode 2, “Lux.” Armaan Babu: If Doctor Who has taught us anything, it’s that it’s not so fun exploring all of space and time without a companion to help you through it. For this...

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]]> 52297 Russell T Davies tackles AI (and replays the hits) in Doctor Who’s “The Robot Revolution” https://comicsxf.com/2025/04/14/doctor-who-robot-revolution/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52219 This review will include spoilers. Please be advised!  I’m not the first person to say that Russell T Davies really has nothing to prove anymore with Doctor Who. Like the Doctor himself, RTD has made a kind of habit of saving the world he loves so much from destruction – though in TV land, that...

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]]> 52219 WMQ&A Episode 233: Aliens! with Paul Cornell https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/22/wmqa-episode-233-aliens-with-paul-cornell/ Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43960 Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 233: Aliens! with Paul Cornell Writer Paul Cornell joins the show to talk about finishing his creator-owned series Saucer Country through Zoop … and then Dan makes him talk about Captain Britain and MI:13. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at...

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]]> 43960 Planet-Sized X-Men, Static Returns and More Staff Picks for 6/16 https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/14/planet-sized-x-men-static-returns-and-more-staff-picks-for-6-16/ Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=29389 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s Pick (but honestly, aren’t we all hype?): Planet-Sized X-Men #1: It’s a red issue, drawn by Pepe Larraz (and written by “Uncle” Gerry Duggan). THE X-MEN ARE GOING TO MARS, BABY! I mean, no,...

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]]> 29389 Pete’s World! Pete’s World! Party Time! Excellent! in Titan’s Doctor Who Comics #2 https://comicsxf.com/2020/12/22/petes-world-petes-world-party-time-excellent-in-titans-doctor-who-comics-2/ Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=10199 Unexpected reunions dominate Doctor Who Comics #2. Written by Jody Houser, penciled by Roberta Ingranata, colored by Enrica Eren Angiolini and Shari Chankhamma, and lettered by Richard Starkings and Sarah Hedrick, the issue finds several familiar faces popping back up. Faces like the Skithra Queen, who joins forces with the Thirteenth Doctor and her fam,...

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]]> 10199 We Have a Sea Devil of a Time Reviewing Titan’s ‘Doctor Who Comics’ #1 https://comicsxf.com/2020/11/24/we-have-a-sea-devil-of-a-time-reviewing-titans-doctor-who-comics-1/ Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=9648 Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor and her Fam return in Doctor Who Comics #1. Handled by the returning creative team of Jody Houser, Roberta Ingranata, Enrica Eren Angiolini, Shari Chankhamma and letterers Richard Starkings & Sarah Hendrick, Doctor Who Comics #1 finds the Doctor contending with an Earth conquered by the Sea Devils. But when the human resistance, led by Rose Tyler, finds their OWN Doctor, namely David Tennant’s Tenth incarnation, the balance of power threatens to tip, bringing the humans and Sea Devils ever closer to conflict. Brave heart, dear readers, as we dive into Doctor Who Comics #1

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]]> 9648 ‘X of Swords,’ New Doctor Who, ‘Dark Interlude’ & More Staff Picks for Nov. 18 https://comicsxf.com/2020/11/16/x-of-swords-new-doctor-who-dark-interlude-more-staff-picks-for-nov-18/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=9509 Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. This Week in Swords X-Force #14, Hellions #6 and Cable #6: Last week we learned that “X of Swords” doesn’t really involve as much sword-fighting as we thought it would. What will that mean...

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]]> 9509 More Tenant, More Daleks & a Defense of Jodie Whittaker: We Review ‘Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious’ #2 https://comicsxf.com/2020/10/15/more-tenant-more-daleks-a-defense-of-jodie-whittaker-we-review-doctor-who-time-lord-victorious-2/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:00:06 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8926 The Tenth Doctor and the Daleks continue their uneasy alliance, standing together against an ancient enemy of Skaro in Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious #2. Bringing the title’s “Defender of the Daleks” two-part stop into Time Lord Victorious to a rousing and emotional conclusion, writer Jody Houser, penciler Roberta Ingranata, coloring team Enrica Eren Angiolini,...

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]]> 8926 We Journey Through Space and Time to Bring You Coverage of ‘Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious’ #1 https://comicsxf.com/2020/09/04/we-journey-through-space-and-time-to-bring-you-coverage-of-doctor-who-time-lord-victorious-1/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8090 The Doctor. The Last of the Time Lords. The Oncoming Storm. And now…Conqueror of DEATH ITSELF?!  At least that’s what Time Lord Victorious, a huge multiplatform crossover event, supposes. Now, the event, which brings together the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors (and maybe some surprises) comes to Titan Comics in the form of Doctor Who:...

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]]> 8090 Al Ewing Wrote a Fifth of This Week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2020/08/31/al-ewing-wrote-a-fifth-of-this-weeks-staff-picks/ Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=7966 Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #1: A spacefaring crew harvests the bodies of dead gods to sustain civilization, while its captain desperately seeks to find a live one, in a...

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