Second frame of third part of first story:
Two more Twelfth Doctor comics, both by George Mann, featuring one-off (well, twice-off) companion Hattie, who is recruited during the first story and then gets to do the second story before going home in time for the next band rehearsal.
George Mann is not my favourite writer, and I found the title story here typically under par – an interesting concept, of a society based on a huge twisted metal structure in space, but let down by an implausibly hidden secret at the heart of it, and also a sudden yet inevitable betrayal at the end. Of course it’s nice to see the Capaldi Doctor doing music, but that was the best thing about it.
The second story, “Playing House”, was a bit better – the Doctor and Hattie encounter a family who are unwittingly storing a disintegrating TARDIS which is dangerously warping their reality. There were still some bits that didn’t really add up, but it hangs together as well as most Who.
The art by Mariano Laclaustra and Rachael Stott is very good.
Next up: firmer ground with Sonic Boom, by Robbie Morrison et al.
