I haven't read anything about the fugitive doctor before so it was nice to see her in doctor who comics. I enjoyed this comic book series but they were a bit short for the story. Everything happened a lot faster. Although the story was very interesting. The story was interesting. I think this is going to be a series because we haven't seen the first doctor yet. I can't wait to read how the first doctor and the fugitive doctor will be going to meet. It is definitely going to be very interesting. Overall it was a fun addition to doctor who universe. I recommend it to any doctor who fans and can't wait for the next installment.

A book that will feel very minor if you haven't caught up with recent years of Doctor Who, and so know nothing of why a Weeping Angel is allowed into the TARDIS, or why there's a female coloured Doctor that the others had forgot. It's not looking like the character we know and love at all, either, when she is tasked with demolishing a cult outpost, on behalf of her employers. But the real Doctor will out, and here we see what happens when she begins to question orders. Touching on Holocaust/Nazi themes of duty and expectation, this feels a bit too much like a missed opportunity, and the end shows it to be pretty much a stop-gap between one mythology beat and another, getting everyone from one point n to a second one. Still, if you do know what's going on – and the inclusion of the First Doctor certainly needs a lot more justification than it gets here – this will still be a very readable and most welcome volume.

This Story From The Fugitive Doctor is Quite Baffling But I would Want to Read it Again & Again.
(Thanks to Net Galley for this Book).

. Definitely different what I expected from a doctor who comic but I loved the focus on the doctor we never really got to see in the TV series! It made the story enjoyable, I loved the different time lords that were involved.

This comic has the problem I feel most Doctor Who comics has, and that’s trouble with the pacing. The comics move much faster than the episodes, which could be a good thing, if used better. There is also far too much in the story that is left unexplained, and not in the way that I’m like “Yes! I’m sure they’ll expand on that in further volumes!” I did enjoy that the story is almost solely about the Doctor helping people, but I wish there had been more focus on WHO the Fugitive Doctor is. The art is blurry often, which is odd because the text is fully readable. Overall, this is enjoyable, I just wished for more.

A promising addition to the new Who universe.

Whatever your thoughts on the Chibnall-era Doctor, there's no doubt that the Timeless Child saga opened up a whole new set of possibilities, given we now know the Doctor had numerous lives before their Hartnell incarnation. So far, on screen we've only seen the Fugitive Doctor, but we know there have been many others, each one with a set of adventures ready to be told be enterprising scriptwriters and authors.

So it seems fair that the first graphic novel to appear features said Fugitive Doctor, while she is an operative of The Division. When her Time Lord masters instruct her (and a young companion) to visit a world of troublemakers and eliminate them she immediately does what the Doctor does and sets her own agenda.

What develops is a nice story, true to the Doctor character. We've got them questioning everything, going off at tangents, coming up with bizarre solutions to problems, and generally acting Doctor-y. This incarnation still seems to be learning about herself, but beginning to question her role. There's a lot of plot elements that I could see reaching into future novels.

Writer Jody Houser and artist Roberta Ingranata make a good team and both story and art work well. The Doctor's voice, sharp and witty, echoes the on-screen version, and when we catch a glimpse of Hartnell-Doctor, he too resonates. We also see a bit of how the Doctor will grow to loathe the Time Lords. The aliens are nicely represented, and the TARDIS interiors are familiar to fans. The layout is slightly off-key but nevertheless vibrant and attention-grabbing.

I'm certain Who fans will enjoy this latest caper, and I for one will look out for further episodes. Definitely recommended.

This was very Doctor-Who Doctor Who and I loved it. I am so excited about the expansion of the role to onclude more people and more stories. From concept to art, this comic delivered on my expectations.

Love it or hate it, the Timeless Child is official. It's settled. It happened. So what now?

What comes now is a cornucopia of untold plot ripe for the plucking. Now that we know the Doctor has lived many more lives than we thought, the BBC's media divisions will be busy for the rest of the century filling in the gap to sate fans' newly sparked thirst for answers.

The first entry in this promising new continuity is Doctor Who Origins, a comic story starring Jo Martin's incarnation of the Fugitive Doctor, covering a period of her service in the secretive Time Lord agency known simply as Division. When she's assigned a job of questionable morality, she decides to dig a little further. What she discovers will be the first crack in her relationship with Time Lord society and the first roll of the snowball toward her eventual escape from Gallifrey with a stolen TARDIS.

The book opens with a brief scene that establishes what kind of person the Fugitive Doctor is. She stops by Earth to capture some minor band of intergalactic criminals, but during the mission she has her first encounter with humanity, and something in her resonates with what she sees. The book references the First Doctor's choice to settle in Earth with his granddaughter Susan, the implication being that this earlier incarnation's now-forgotten experiences left him with a lingering yearning for our world.

Here the Fugitive Doctor is written with a sharp tongue and a quick wit, as every Doctor should be, but her particular brand of unfazeable and knowing snark brings to mind the out-of-continuity Shalka Doctor more than any other incarnation. This is a type of heroine who can react fast enough to flee from a lethal giant spider while recognizing the ridiculousness of the situation, and just a day later teach a novice Division colleage to not impulsively obey every order.

What the Fugitive Doctor learns in this adventure foreshadows many of the traits that will define this character years later, when she stops being a tool of enforcement and becomes an irreverent hero. Her newly assigned partner is written to stand for the archetypal TARDIS companion, and her disagreements with her superiors are the first taste of the Gallifreyan political entanglements the Doctor will frequently provoke many centuries later.

This is a tricky writing assignment, to re-establish a character that has existed for half a century while showing a side of them that feels new and interesting, to give us a character who is already fully-formed but still doesn't know how much more she'll become. The Doctor Who franchise has usually been cautious in not closing too much of the open questions in the character's backstory (one of the main reasons why the Timeless Child plot was so heavily criticized), and this prequel-to-all-prequels succeeds at presenting a Doctor before the Doctor, before Susan, before Earth, before it was a commonplace occurrence to run for their life to save the universe.

Doctor Who Origins also shows another facet to the unbelievably corruptible government of Gallifrey, and throws yet another well-placed punch in their self-image of righteous guardians of secret knowledge. Here we find another difficulty, inherent to a multi-decade franchise involving hundreds of writers, that the book skillfully flies past: to shed enough light on what really pushed the First Doctor to abandon his people, while not revealing so much that readers lose interest and future writers can't make their own contributions.

Unfortunately, the need to leave enough questions unanswered hurts the pacing of the last pages. The Fugitive Doctor has had her first glimpse of what's not to like about the Time Lords, and... that's it. The cliffhanger is so abrupt you're tempted to read back and make sure you didn't miss some beat of the story. This is a satisfying read insofar as you want to get to know the Fugitive Doctor and close the book feeling hyped to learn more, but the sensation it leaves is that this must have been intended as just a prologue and not its own story. The character is undeniably compelling, and the arc is promising, but this first entry delivers a bit too little.


The Math

Baseline Assessment: 7/10.

Bonuses: +1 for the difficult feat of making new lore integrate naturally into decades-old established canon.

Penalties: −1 because the comic's ending is so sudden it doesn't actually end; it just stops.

Nerd Coefficient: 7/10.

This was a really fun Doctor Who adventure! I haven't watched the show since the Eleventh Doctor left, but it's great that you don't need to be fully caught up to enjoy this graphic novel.

We come in to the Fugitive Doctor. Basically she's a super spy for a shady organization called The Division. But she is still very much the Doctor we all know and love. She puts people first, and isn't actually very keen on following orders in the mission she's given in this story. And she is so right to follow her instincts!

The art was detailed and easy to understand, but sometimes it felt very stiff. Other than the occasional awkward stiffness that may or may not just be how I was interpreting it, I loved it!

My thanks to both NetGalley and the publisher Titan Books for an advanced copy of this graphic novel that tells the adventures of the Fugitive Doctor.

As a fan of memoirs and biographies I am always amazed at the amount of recall people have for events both large and small. The people who were there, words used, feelings felt the entirety of the occurrence told in words. I, on the other hand can't remember what I had for lunch, no matter how delicious or as I tend to stick with things how usual the meal might be. Nor can I remember what I talked about last week to work companions, family, or neighbors. Now imagine being a Time Lord, with 14 other lives, with a War Doctor or two tossed in, maybe movie Doctor and imagine asking them about saving a colony once. They might need more than that. They can't even remember where their love of jelly babies came from. So of course there might be other lives that have been forgotten. Or erased. Doctor Who; Origins, written by Jody Houser and illustrated by Roberta Ingranata tells of a lost Doctor, the Fugitive Doctor, one that might have been before the story began, or even why the began in the first place.

We meet the Fugitive Doctor coming to Earth and invading a local hideaway for children to stop a monstrous threat to the planet, which the Doctor solves. This might be the first time on Earth as the Doctor seems impressed by the locals friendliness, the children offering the Doctor membership, and why the Doctor always seemed drawn to this planet. From there the Doctor we learn a little more about this Doctor and their ties to a secret Time Lord group known as the Division, who give the Doctor a mission and a new companion Taslo. Make contact with a group of colonies and analyse their threat to the planet Gallifrey. The more the Doctor investigates the more they are not happy with the what they find. And an unhappy Doctor is a very bad person to go up against.

A different kind of Doctor Who story, more a Doctor finding out what they are, their place in the universe and what the Time Lords might be. There is a bit of darkness and violence, but the story is interesting, and explains the difference in the Fugitive Doctor, and what might have changed to make the Doctor the Doctor. The ending is a little timey-wimey, but it fits and does make sense. What it does do is open up a lot of future story ideas for both the Fugitive Doctor, their companion, and what is going on with the Time Lords, who seem normal for some of the Doctors, than not as normal for others. The art is quite good. I liked the aliens, and the characters were not only consistent, and carried the story along quite a bit without having to fill the panels with words. Also the backgrounds were a nice mix of clunky teck, smooth future tech, and the TARDIS was given its own look and feel. A very good collection.
A great read for new or classic fans of the good Doctor. A lot of story lines can be created from here, a lot of little bits from the Doctor's many pasts can be tied up nicely, and it really was a good story. Something to look forward to when all those holiday gift cards are burning holes in pockets. I look forward to more adventures with this good Fugitive Doctor.

This was a bit disjointed at the start with the 2 different Doctors and mixed up timelines. Once it got started it was gripping and I really enjoyed it but I have no idea what the start was all about. Perhaps it will be explained in future books.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for letting me review this book. It was great to see the Fugitive Doctor again and how she is working for Division. It was interesting to see the Time Lords in different forms than what we all think of.

Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for a copy of the graphic novel/ comic.

The art style and cover work of this book was stunning however in my copy there were no accompanying words, I noticed another reviewer stating the same issue, is this a problem with the kindle edition?

Lots of classic doctor who villains in the first few pages. The warm dusty art style feels very Firefly, great detail in the artwork.

In issue #02 of Origins, we follow along with the Doctor we know as the Fugitive Doctor. It's been fun to jump in and see who the Doctor was before they were the Doctor we know now. With a great pacing, and amazing illustrations the story is carefully shaped and has a big twist. This one is perfect for any fans of Doctor Who be it the TV shows or comics and releases on January 10th, 2023.

4.5 stars.

This fantastic comic lays out the otherwise unknown and previously mysterious origins of the Fugitive Doctor. I love her Doctor so much and this origin story was a joy to read - incredible single edition of a comic series! The pacing of the story is natural, each character shows distinct depth of character, and the comic's end had me in feels.

The illustrations were in a lovely style, though I am someone who enjoys more clear boundaries and focus. This is the only reason that I am not giving this comic a full 5 stars. The cover itself is exceptional , though.

So much gratitude to the publisher, Titan Comics, and NetGalley, for an advanced digital copy of this comic, in exchange for my honest review. (Honestly, I REALLY hope that I can snag the remainder of the series this way, as well! So GOOD!!)

I enjoyed the Fugitive Doctor storyline, and I’m glad the graphic novels are returning to it now that the show is likely to drop it. This issue really shows the Fugitive Doctor’s personality and her development into the Doctor we know. It feels like a true prequel to the show. It’s an excellent continuation of the setup in Jodie Whittaker’s season. I only wish the story was less quick and disconnected. I’d love to see a full novel developing this backstory.

Lovely art style and can get a sense of the story from the pictures alone which is vital to such a visual media. However, there was no dialogue or text on the story - could have been an issue with my copy. Therefore as I don’t know what the plot actually was I can only rate based on thr artwork.

This feels like a very solid two part episode of Doctor Who, which is likely the tone they were going for. It is fun, fast, hinges on a moral dilemma, and resolved via kindness and smarts. It wasn't particularly mind blowing, but it is solid and enjoyable. Hopefully, the usage of the first Doctor will have a pay off in later volumes. It just felt forced in here.

The Fugitive Doctor has been a favorite since her first appearance on the television series so I was excited to see a graphic novel dedicated to her. The story was okay. It showed a bit of her backstory, how she worked with Division and ultimately left.
Okay story, nice artwork.