An art blog I guess

The official synopsis:

Warned about a troop of aliens who seek to catalog all species and extinguish those who don't fit into the taxonomy, the Eight Doctor lands on the planet Ipperin IV to try and find his friend and protect her from this great evil. He, however, arrives a little too early.

Doshenta shows a teenage Skip, six years prior to meeting the doctor, in the midst of an identity crisis and general insecurity about her body and herself. The doctor sticks around Skip and tries to hide the looming threat to her existence from her, while fighting the.. (*sighs in exhaustion*) the Glorbies (late referred in the comic as the Blorbies ? for some reason?). These are the aliens obsessed with taxonomy, lovers of a neat and tidy spreadsheet of alien species, haters of every individual who doesn't fit into the neat and tidy spreadsheet. A little heavy handed right?

Doshenta shows the prospect of diving really deep into Skip's insecurities about her hybridism, gender and sexuality, as well as social and political aspects of the human's and doshenta's coexisting on Ipperin IV, themes that are already hinted in her early audios. I'd say for the first half of the comic, it does a very good job of exploring those themes. The art is beautiful, the dialogue is good, the plot is compelling.

And then in the second half..... I don't know what the fuck happened there. Progressively it seemed like everyone on the team lost its passion for the project, the illustrations start to become lazy and unflattering, the story gets increasingly more confusing, and DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE FUCKING GLORBIES. A classic Doctor Who tradition of ruining perfectly alright aliens or villains.

But ignoring the Glorbies and the general ending for a bit, Doshenta is a really good start if you like Skip Haverty and want to know more about her context and backstory, her familial issues and relationship with the people of her world. In the audios we basically only see her interacting with humans, so it's really interesting to see her with (and compared to) the doshenta people.

The doshenta species also gets a very different design on this comic story, as you might have noticed on the cover. Noticeably, they are big and resemble more a mermaid than a person per se. I'd guess it's the same issue the Doctor Who team had with choosing about Skip's design, so they just went for a bunch of different stuff.

The official synopsis:

Warned about a troop of aliens who seek to catalog all species and extinguish those who don't fit into the taxonomy, the Eight Doctor lands on the planet Ipperin IV to try and find his friend and protect her from this great evil. He, however, arrives a little too early.

Doshenta shows a teenage Skip, six years prior to meeting the doctor, in the midst of an identity crisis and general insecurity about her body and herself. The doctor sticks around Skip and tries to hide the looming threat to her existence from her, while fighting the.. (*sighs in exhaustion*) the Glorbies (late referred in the comic as the Blorbies ? for some reason?). These are the aliens obsessed with taxonomy, lovers of a neat and tidy spreadsheet of alien species, haters of every individual who doesn't fit into the neat and tidy spreadsheet. A little heavy handed right?

Doshenta shows the prospect of diving really deep into Skip's insecurities about her hybridism, gender and sexuality, as well as social and political aspects of the human's and doshenta's coexisting on Ipperin IV, themes that are already hinted in her early audios. I'd say for the first half of the comic, it does a very good job of exploring those themes. The art is beautiful, the dialogue is good, the plot is compelling.

And then in the second half..... I don't know what the fuck happened there. Progressively it seemed like everyone on the team lost its passion for the project, the illustrations start to become lazy and unflattering, the story gets increasingly more confusing, and DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE FUCKING GLORBIES. A classic Doctor Who tradition of ruining perfectly alright aliens or villains.

But ignoring the Glorbies and the general ending for a bit, Doshenta is a really good start if you like Skip Haverty and want to know more about her context and backstory, her familial issues and relationship with the people of her world. In the audios we basically only see her interacting with humans, so it's really interesting to see her with (and compared to) the doshenta people.

The doshenta species also gets a very different design on this comic story, as you might have noticed on the cover. Noticeably, they are big and resemble more a mermaid than a person per se. I'd guess it's the same issue the Doctor Who team had with choosing about Skip's design, so they just went for a bunch of different stuff.