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TweetIDW’s first volume of the collected DOCTOR WHO OMNIBUS is a compact but substantial little tome gathering two long story arcs (“Agent Provacateur” and “The Forgotten”) and six one-shots that appeared in single issue form featuring, for the most part, the adventures of the 10th Doctor. The production values on the collection are reasonably high, [...]
[...] The Beat – Doctor Who Omnibus, Volume 1 [...]
You’re being suspiciously circumspect about the miniseries ‘Agent Provocateur’ and ‘The Forgotten’, which comprise the bulk of this collection. I’m sure the new reader would find gems among the shorter items, but the fact remains that the first thing to confront them will be an incoherent made-up-as-it-goes-along epic by a writer whose only discernible talents seem to be a) getting well-connected enough in Doctor Who fandom that he’s always invited to write these gigs despite his entire fictional output being barely publishable and b) squeezing more expositional text into word balloons than you’d find in entire chapters of most technical manuals. ‘The Forgotten’ is marginally better but does rather resemble an elephant farting pointless Doctor Who references into a wind tunnel for 6 issues.
Though I don’t have quite as negative a view of the longer story arcs, I do find them less exciting.
I particularly like the range of diverse art styles that one shots bring in.