Doctor Who: The Comic Strip Adaptations – out now!
By James Aggas
Fans of both Doctor Who comics and audios should be very excited about the brand new release of The Comic Strip Adaptations: Volume One!
We’re less than a week away from the Blu-ray release of Tom Baker’s final season of Doctor Who. We’re massively keen to check it out, and will be sure to look at it in depth. (Followed by the season nineteen Blu-ray. Yes, it’s been out for a few months, but it’s definitely better to watch eighteen before nineteen. We’ll get to why at a later point.)
But for those of you who are already craving Eighties stories featuring the Fourth Doctor, then you’re in luck. Big Finish just released their latest box set: The Comic Strip Adaptations: Volume One!
The box set adapts two much loved comic stories for Baker’s Doctor. There’s The Iron Legion, which was the first ever comic story in Doctor Who Magazine (back then known as Doctor Who Weekly). It basically features a Roman Empire with robot soldiers, and it’s exactly as awesome as it sounds.
The second story, The Star Beast, not only introduced Sharon, the first original companion from Doctor Who Weekly. It also gave us Beep the Meep, who’s an absolutely brilliant character.
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Future adaptations?
Both of these stories have always been a lot of fun to read, so it’s great that they’re being brought to a new audience through the audio medium. And with Tom Baker still playing the Doctor so brilliantly, it’ll be great to hear his voice on two iconic stories.
There’s one other exciting thing to see with this release: the words “Volume One”. Will we be seeing more comics adapted to audio at a later point? I hope so, especially if they explore other eras and other Doctors. I’d love to see the Fifth Doctor’s darker adventures in Stockbridge explored, or hear more of the Sixth Doctor’s journeys with his shape-shifting penguin friend Frobisher. So here’s hoping this box set does well enough to justify future adaptations.
Expect reviews for both for The Iron Legion and The Star Beast soon. In the meantime, check out our reviews for last week’s box set The Eighth of March, including Emancipation, The Big Blue Book and Inside Every Warrior.
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Are you a fan of the Fourth Doctor’s comic strip adventures? Which comic stories do you think should be adapted into audio? Which Doctor do you think had the strongest run in the medium? Let us know in the comments below.