Doctor Who Comics: The Eighth Doctor (Part 1)

The Wilderness Years of Doctor Who – sorry, I mean the First Wilderness Years of Doctor Who – were a game of two halves, with the TV movie marking half time. In the first half, the Seventh Doctor enjoyed a continued incumbency, even though Sylvester McCoy wasn’t getting much regular work out of that status; in the second half, it would be the Eighth Doctor who’d be the new hotness, and all the major strands of Wilderness Years expanded media would, sooner or later, get to offer their own take on him. For the Doctor Who Magazine comics, the Seventh Doctor years were a muddled period, but one of intense experimentation. Initially, when the show itself was ongoing, the comic didn’t entirely seem to know what to do with the Seventh Doctor, and ended up taking more of a lead from the more frivolous aspects of Season 24 than some might have wanted. Then, when the Wilderness Years kicked in, Doctor Who Magazine offered a welcome berth for none other than Andrew Cartmel, and between his own…