This book collects the five issue Eighth Doctor mini-series for Titan Comics. I'm sure I won't be the only Whovian hoping for more comics featuring the Eighth Doctor. It's not exactly a twist ending, nor surprising, but it adds a layer to what is otherwise a collection of 5 loosely related short adventures. I was enjoying it for the first 3-4 issues (it would have gotten a 3 star rating) then there's a kind of perspective shift that makes you reevaluate the issues you've already read. But these's a bit of a twist which weaves something deeper into the texture of the narrative. Rather typical of the Doctor Who comics from Titan. But I was also worried that it wouldn't live up to my expectations. So I was very pleased when it was announced he would get his own mini-series. Partly because there's only the movie (aside from all the wonderful audio-dramas from Big Finish), partly beacuse of the actor and partly beacuse that was the first time I watched Doctor Who when it aired. The Time Lord High Council refer to their having a weapon called 'The Moment', which appeared in the television episode ' The Day of the Doctor' (2013).I've always had a soft spot for th Eighth Doctor.The Daleks refer to the Doctor as 'the Predator', first heard in ' Asylum of the Daleks' (2012).The Skaro Degradations, referred to by the Tenth Doctor in ' The End of Time' (2009/2010), feature in the story.

The Doctor recalls that he had the chance to prevent the creation of the Daleks, referencing the television serial Genesis of the Daleks (1975).

Vowing to stop both the Time Lords and the Daleks, the Doctor must avoid being killed by a Time Lord assassin and confront the Eternity Circle as he seeks to bring the war to an end and prevent his people from becoming as evil as the Daleks themselves. Travelling to Gallifrey to warn the Time Lords, he finds them preparing to counter-attack using a weapon that will cause the death of billions, Dalek and non-Dalek alike. The Doctor learns that the Eternity Circle, a group of Daleks created by the Dalek Emperor, have produced temporal weapons which they plan to use against the Time Lords, removing them from History. The fleet is destroyed and the TARDIS crashes to the planet below, where the Doctor meets human resistance fighter Cinder, a young woman whose family were killed by the Daleks when she was a child. Synopsis ĭuring the Great Time War, the War Doctor and a Time Lord battle fleet attack Dalek Saucers above the planet Moldox. Engines of War is a BBC Books original novel written by George Mann and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Doctor Who by George Mann