2018-19 (collected 2021) / Ebook / 432 pages / Canada/Italy
****
The sombre sibling to Kris Straub's Broodhollow, its bare-faced Twin Peaks tribute act and generic sci-fi/horror mythology are excused by exceptional art.
Robbie Morrison, George Mann, Brian Williamson and Dave Taylor, Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor – The Complete Year One
***
Not the substitute for the long-postponed Capaldi-era rewatch I'd foolish hoped, and some distance didn't even help to paper over the inevitable cracks that show when writing for work-in-progress versions of characters. They were adequate as generic Doctor Who stories with no specific nostalgia.
1989 (collected 1990) / Ebook / 96 pages / UK
****
As when confronted with other atrocities of the recent past or present that haven't personally affected me, I was disgusted and depressed to be reminded. But not to worry, I'll immediately forget about it again so I can be freshly appalled next time.
1999-2000 (collected 2002) / Ebook / 64 pages / UK
***
Juvenile gore porn? Self-aware satire? Slap on some death metal and take what you want. It briefly became deliriously funny with the introduction of the Gimp and the turn-of-the-millennium CG art was specialised nostalgia.
Alan Moore and artists, Alan Moore's Shocking Futures
***
A non-comprehensive curation of fun primordial shorts, advance self-parodies and more dubious works. I sometimes think I missed out on 2000 AD as a kid, but I was content with anthropomorphic cartoon heroes.
Faves: 'They Sweep the Spaceways,' 'The Hyper-Historic Headbang'
