The characters from the show and historical figures are well caricatured and Collins proves an effective visual storyteller. This story may well justify the four issues being devoted towards telling it.Īrtist Mike Collins shows the same skill here he did in the recent Fourth Doctor chapter of Doctor Who: Prisoners Of Time.

Amazingly, there are hints of even further complications in a story that already has three good stories running through it at present time. More, he manages some truly touching character moments, such as Wilde and Clara bonding over booze as Clara tries desperately to avoid pitching story ideas to a Wilde who is years away from writing his most famous works of fiction. Lee balances all of these stories and subplots like a plate-spinner. Rumors that the legendary Wild Bill Hickok has risen from the dead to seek revenge as a mysterious masked gunfighter, who kills with a gesture instead of a gun. And, yet again at the same time, there are found himself in Deadwood, South Dakota at the same time as The central conceit of this issue is that a young Oscar Wilde - who did travel the length and depth of America in 1882 Even when history itself is apocryphal and filled with more tall tales than any sci-fi dime novel, it just isn't done!Īnd yet, with Doctor Who #13, Tony Lee has done it and done it well. 'Cities made of song and people made of smoke' are all well and good but you can't just go mucking about with 'what might have been' in history. While Doctor Who is frequently described as a series where anything is possible, rarely is this idea pushed in a historical context.

Doctor Who Volume 3 by Tony Lee