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| Good lord, they're even more adorable than the Vardy. |
The Klepton Parasites is Doctor Who's original comic... and a damn fine one at that!
WRITTEN BY
Fascinatingly enough, nobody seems to know.
PLOT
After meeting his grandfather Dr. Who for the first time, John accidentally sends the TARDIS several hundred years into the future to an alien planet under invasion from the mad Kleptons. It's up to him, his sister Gillian and Who to put an end to this fantastic mess!
ANALYSIS
Take The Dominators and the 1977 James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me, and you basically get this. Thanks to the freedom of storytelling, the Hartnell era is given the Michael Bay treatment and we get to see an awesome villain lair, explosions, gunfights...
It was also surprisingly coherent. Given how wild these comics can go, I was expecting something daft, but instead, the story is both creative and actually makes sense. Although a little cliched, the Kleptons' motivations are well thought out, the pacing is great(you're invested throughout) and it honestly has the feel of a big budget movie version of a 60s story without going all Cushing. Kudos for a bang-on start.
William Hartnell's character is very well captured. He's slightly cantankerous early on, but as soon as he gets into trouble, his mind starts working and he's determined to end each and every wrongdoing right this instant!
John and Gillian are a bit eh... it's sweet to have kids as companions I guess, but it also feels incredibly irresponsible. And their backstory is very vague. Oh well.
NOTES
*How dumb are the Kleptons that they ask their own prisoners whether they've seen escaped prisoners?
*So how did the Kleptons build this extravagant underwater city on the Thains' homeplanet without them noticing?
*These killer tree roots that are destroying the Thain city are controlled by... wheels. I love the 60s.
*I can't be the only one who immediately thought of Thals, right?
*Another classic 60s trope is that the Kleptons are nameless. Their leader is "Klepton One". Guess it makes sense(I would imagine ants working like that).
*Who says that the TARDIS is travelling to the 29th century, but the comic recaps all claim it takes place in the 30th. I'll just assume he fluffed it as per usual.
*I love that Who calls the Kleptons "bug-eyed monsters". I imagine this was a common sci-fi phrase in 60s Britain.
BEST QUOTE
"The guards are routed! The prisoners have the whip hand!" - Proof that language is in constant flux and teachers really ought to just let it go.
CONCLUSION
Great start to what will hopefully continue to be a fun and entertaining comic series!
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