The Crossroads of Time [COMIC/1988.3.10]

★★★☆☆

  I've always been fascinated by the story of Death's Head, the central comic character that links several franchises together in his series (Doctor Who, Transformers, Marvel). Isn't it marvelous how crazy Doctor Who's comic mythos can be sometimes? I've been very excited to kick things off with the Death's Head canon, and it's a delight to say that The Crossroads of Time didn't let me down with its crazy premise.

  The Seventh Doctor we get here is very much an expanded-universe iteration, meaning that he seemingly possesses little of the brooding chessmaster we so often see in Seasons 25 and 26 as well as the Virgin New Adventures. He's the sort of chap to offer jelly babies for his life and use the Master's TCE (Tissue Compression Eliminator) with reckless abandon... in other words, he's precisely the sort of chap I'm delighted to see in a Doctor Who/Marvel/Transformers/whatever else crossover. Make a show of oneself and rattle on elsewhere in his rackety old box, that's the Doctor. His interactions with the deadly mercenary are as comedic as you'd imagine, and I had great fun reading this short comic strip.

*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ  

  The fact that the Seventh Doctor, the most manipulative and meticulous of all the Doctors, is the one that sends Death's Head onto this 12-part epic (which will be covered in a separate review), therefore making him responsible for all the death and destruction to ensue... really shouldn't make me chuckle but does.