Jody Houser

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Another very successful installment in the series of Thirteenth Doctor comics by Houser and an all-woman team of artists. Here, the Tardis team meet up with none other than the Corsair, subject of a throwaway line about Time Lords changing gender in The Doctor's Wife, here a swaggering part-time criminal who does it for fun rather than out of malevolence. The Corsair is a great creation, a different take on the Doctor's irreverence for authority and show more tradition, and Houser has the two developing a lovely sparking relationship, convincingly giving the sense of two people who know each other well but maybe not always as well as they think. The core narrative is that the Doctor is accused of stealing a valuable object which in fact was stolen by the Corsair, and this lands them in all sorts of trouble. The rest of the Tardis crew don't get a lot of page time, but this is the Corsair's story, and it's a good one. show less

Faith takes part in a mega-crossover time-travel event to stop the robotic love child of Ultron-1, Amazo and a Dalek from exterminating humanity. Faith makes everything better just by being in it, even if I cannot recognize one in five of the other Valiant heroes with whom she is interacting. But one of those unknowns, Neela Sethi, actually seems capable of rising to Faith's level. Based on the strength of her appearance here, I'm currently reading Sethi's initial outing in [b:Ivar, show more Timewalker: Deluxe Edition, Book 1|28159931|Ivar, Timewalker Deluxe Edition, Book 1|Fred Van Lente|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1459221661s/28159931.jpg|48172714] right now.

Anyhow, this was a fun story with lots of great Faith moments, repeated several times thanks to, you know, time travel. And I loved the ending, which ditches most of the crossover garbage and becomes a fairly straightforward Faith story. Nice. show less

I really enjoyed this. I had been hearing about this title for a while, and how it was smart and funny, and showed a superhero of a different body-type without calling it out (really, not making a big deal about something is better in my head than the opposite, because it normalizes it).

What I hadn't expected was to fall head over heels in love with this story. The main character, Faith/Summer/Zephyr is refreshingly normal. She gets take-out like the rest of us, worries about bills, has a show more job that isn't what she wants to really do, and she gets lonely and misses her ex just like that rest of us. She is also unabashedly geeky, but again, this isn't called out but is just there. So fantastic.

I loved the plot, and how it twisted while introducing readers to Faith and the background characters, both mundane and not. Also, the identity reveal early on was amazing! It totally was nice to see that rather than years of running around trying to lead a double life with really stupid excuses a la Clark Kent. show less

There's a good idea at the heart of this volume: the Doctor runs into the Corsair, an old Time Lord friend she learned died back in "The Doctor's Wife." How do you handle a situation like this? Unfortunately, I felt that that aspect of the story was barely present; I only really got what the story was going for in its last issue. If the Doctor had talked about this with her companions, it could have been highlighted more, but much like on screen, Houser's version of the fam are show more interchangeable recipients of exposition. There's just nothing very characterful here. What do they all make of meeting another Time Lord at last, so different from the one they know so well? Who knows. Probably this is how Chris Chibnall would handle it on screen, as in, just as dully. Not terrible, but it's a disappointment for our first real glimpse of the Corsair.

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