If anyone ever asked me who my favourite Doctor was I would always think back to the old days of my childhood and name Patrick Troughton. His companions Jamie and Zoe were also favourites of mine. Of course there is to most people only one Master that as played by the late Roger Delgado. However times change and not only has the Doctor changed but so has the master.
Whilst Pa\trick Troughton remains my favourite classic Doctor I'm rather an fan of the much under-rated Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi who seems more in the old tradition than most of the new incarnations. However I have come to be a big fan of Missy as the female incarnation of the Master as played by the wonderful Michelle Gomez.
Wacky, fun and dangerous she has the menace and mystery of the Doctors nemesis to a tee. I've certainly loved her appearances on the TV show and am now on the third collection of Missy's audio adventures which I'll review in due course but for now Missy has a comic and that I've just read.
Originally published as a four issue mini series by British publisher Titan Comics it's now available as a collected edition which is now my favoured way of reading comics. This tells the tale of Missy impersonating the Doctor to free her former incarnation from you guessed it the time zone of the third Doctor who makes a couple of cameos.
Missy is on a mission. To save people and needs to find a piece of the Key To Time which older fans will recall from the mega-story line during the Tom Baker era. Will her mission succeed? And why would a psychopath want to save people? She certainly shows mercy early on.
Imprisoned in space is the original Master, well as far as we know given all the canonical revisions of late. Missy needs his help to open a door. Can her earlier incarnation really be fooled into thinking this is the Doctor? And what does the twelfth Doctor have to with all this?
A fun read which makes as much sense as Missy's humour at times but is a wonderful distraction from all the current goings on around us. Worth reading.
Rating: 5 Stars
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