My Total Disappointment in Doctor Who #1

Doctor Who #1 was a complete fail. While the photo cover (cvr B) was interesting and entertaining, everything between the covers was a complete waste of space. It's taken me a month to post this because I don't want to be the one to say it. I may be the only one saying it, because I may be the only one reading it. I know many new fans of the show who had no idea there was comic based on the Doctor. And I am not starting them out on 11's first adventure.

Now that I've ripped the Band-Aid off, let me cover the key points. IDW launched the new series with a trite, trivial story! WTF IDW! FAIL!

So getting over this colossal disappointment has been difficult-- continues to be difficult. 

The art was disappointing, the characters all seemed off and the scenes were static and the 'villain' looked oddly like Danny Trejo which struck me as more than a little bit tasteless. I felt like I was working my way through a storyboard, not a comic book. The art lacked motion and emotion. When the only image a 6 year old finds interesting is a space ship you have a problem.

Perhaps the artist was bored to tears with the story, because this one lacked any hint of inspiration. The idea behind could have been 'cute,' heck it could have been powerful, instead it was trite, trivial, and worst of all boring!

Really, IDW? You launched the new series with spam? Who made this decision? Were there drugs involved, because absolutely zero brain cells were. Unless your point was to tank the title.

A colorful cover may sell the title, but the complete beige-ness of the contents will not retain fans.

I've always had a nagging concern with all the recent Doctor Who titles and couldn't quite define what it was that kept them from reaching stellar-ness. But reading this comic, I'm pretty sure I've know what it is now. The creative people behind the title need to understand this is a story, not a storyboard. It's a comic, not a TV show.