Doctor Who Comic: Missy #02

Doctor Who Comic: Missy #02

Titan Comics 2021

Written by Jody Houser

Illustrated by Roberta Ingranata

Coloured by Enrica Eren Angiolini

Lettered by Comicraft’s Richard Starkings

Missy makes her daring escape from Stormcage with the help of a familiar face!

While I may not be currently watching Doctor Who I will say that this being my introduction to Missy, I am mad about her. She’s utterly delightful and has this crazy uniqueness to her that just excites me. There is something about this that just captures the readers creativity and imagination as it engages the readers mind the more we see Missy. This is totally enthralling and the fact that Missy seems to be able to hold her own with The Master just goes to show how dangerous this woman has the potential to be. The opening here is great as she’s with the 12th Doctor in his tardis and if I’m sure of anything she’s learning how it works. Her ingenuity and determination impresses the heck out of me and I have to say the way that Jody is writing her makes her one of those sensational character finds that you want to see more of.

I like the way that this is being told. The story & plot development that we see through how the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is presented exceptionally well. The character development is completely and utterly amazing! How we see the dialogue, character interaction as well as how the they act and react to the situations and circumstances they encounter is sensational stuff. I have never seen the kind of characterisation that are seeing with Missy anywhere else like we’re seeing it here. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing more and more of the story we’re pulled deeper and deeper into it.

I like how we see this being structured and how the layers within the story continue to grow and strengthen while new ones emerge. It is nice to see a familiar face who buys into what Missy is selling, even more so considering who it is we see. The way that we see everything working together to create the story’s ebb & flow as well as how it moves the story always forward is so well achieved.

The interiors here are delightful. The linework that we see is well laid down and how the varying weights are being utilised to bring out the detail work is nice to see. I do love seeing how backgrounds are being utilised and how they enhance the moments not to mention how they work within the composition of the panels to create the depth perception, sense of scale and the overall sense of size and scope to the story. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels who a remarkably talented eye for storytelling. The colour work is amazing here. How we see the various hues and tones within the colours being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work shows such a beautiful eye for colour and it’s understanding of how to master it.

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The Doctor Who universe is a very large and vast place to be and the myriad of era’s and characters make it such a fun playground to build your sandbox in. That these ladies, and gentleman, have brought a character to comics for the first time and are absolutely delighting readers in every sense of word is phenomenal. So smartly written and gorgeously illustrated I’m now going to look forward to seeing this creative team to doing a River story arc as well. Heck just create and introduce a villainess for an earlier doctor that most folks have forgotten about. The possibilities of what I want see these folks do is limitless and that’s thanks to the quality of work within these pages.