https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/sins-of-the-father-by-nick-abadzis-giorgia-sposi...

More adventures of the Tenth Doctor with comics-only companions Gabby Gonzalez and Cindy Wu. The first of the three stories here features another sound monster taking advantage of the Jazz era in New Orleans; the second is the opening part of the conclusive adventure in this sequence of comics, bringing back the Osirans and Sutekh; and the third is a neat little multi-Doctor adventure with Ten, Eleven and Twelve. I am consistently impressed by the quality of this series, though it has now reached the stage where you’d need to have been reading it from the beginning. ( )

Het digitaal lezen van deze strip begint me toch wel op te breken nu er tussen de verschillende verhalen allemaal verbanden zijn die ik maar met moeite kan terugvinden omdat digitaal bladeren een crime is. Er zal mij dan ook heel wat ontgaan, wat ik wel jammer vind maar het is niet anders.

Er valt nog genoeg te beleven van wat ik nog wel kan volgen.
Zo voelt het eerste verhaal als een klassieker met jazzmuzikanten die door muziek in de greep van een kwade macht komen. Ook typisch Doctor Who dat niet iedereen waar je in de loop van het verhaal aan gaat hechten, de eindstreep haalt. Er blijft altijd iets pijnlijks op het einde ook al is het voor de meesten goed afgelopen.

In het tweede verhaal komt de rode draad van de eerdere delen weer naar voren. Omdat ik het niet helemaal paraat heb bij het lezen, weet ik niet zeker of ik het allemaal goed interpreteer. De tekeningen vind ik van dit verhaal foeilelijk dus dat helpt ook niet echt. Het even terugzien van wat oudere Doctors deed me dan wel weer glimlachen. Het is een truc die al vaak is uitgehaald. De ene keer valt dat goed, de andere keer pakt het niet best uit. Hier vind ik het wel zinnig ingezet.

Net zoals in het derde verhaal waarin de elfde en twaalfde Doctor verschijnen en je als lezer het leven van de drie generaties Doctors kunt meebeleven en hoe er avonturen zijn die zeer lang doorwerken. Leuk gedaan. ( )

This volume contains three things: a two-issue story about the Doctor, Gabby, and Cindy in New Orleans during the Jazz Age; the first two issues of a five-part story about the Osirians (the last three parts are in vol 7); and a short story about the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Doctors.

The jazz one seems like it has potential... but as I said when I read this title's earlier story about living sound, surely comics is the medium least suited to telling a story about music? I also don't really understand what the writing is trying to do with the Doctor's dynamics with his companions now that he has two of them; I feel like the three of them are always getting mad at each other for reasons I have not actually been told about, like writer Nick Abadzis has forgotten to put on the page what ideas he has in his head about how these characters relate to each other. On top of that, I found the climax to this one very confusing in terms of script and art. Giorgia Sposito is good at likenesses and her art is attractive, but her storytelling skills aren't always up to it.

As for the Osirian one... well, this title plummets into mediocrity every time that storyline comes up, and this installment is no exception. Dull dull dull planet Zog stuff. It has never been clear to me why I should care, and it still isn't. The twists and turns seem arbitrary and random. Ancient Gallifrey? Why not! I can only hope that when vol 7 brings it to a climax, that that will be the end of it all. At least we have some Elenora Carlini art, but I really wish she was getting to illustrate a more "domestic" story that plays to her strengths. We seem to have all but forgotten the set-up of Gabby's home life in New York City, something that Russell T Davies (who this series seeks to emulate) would never have done.

The short story about three Doctors and the word "con" is cute. For once, Titan remembers to credit the illustrators of a bonus short in the trade... but they still don't credit the writer!

Also the cover once again has pretty poor choices of models. If I can't tell which one is meant to be Gabby (a Hispanic woman) and which one is meant to be Cindy (a Chinese-Canadian woman), I feel like you've really screwed up!

Titan Doctor Who: « Previous in sequence | Next in sequence »