DIFFICULT SECOND ALBUM?
Can John Dorney's latest Doctor Who audio - Echoes of Grey, featuring the Second Doctor and Zoe - live up to the success of his first PLAAAAY? Steve Mollmann finds out...

QUOTH THE RAVEN
So, the Doctor's new companion is Tamsin Drew! Since she was pretending to be someone else for the entirety of her first story, we'll get to know her in Alan Barnes's Nevermore, right? Wrong. Steve Mollmann tells us just how annoying that is...

MOCK THE GEEK
Science-fiction fans don't get the most balanced portrayal in Mr. Monk in Outer Space. In response, we've abandoned our busy schedule of cosplay and online arguments about canon to ask Jens Deffner for a review...

FEAST OF STEPHEN
On a happier note, Rachel Steffan's listened to Stephen Cole's Fifth Doctor audio play The Whispering Forest, and Linnea Dodson's checked out his Eleventh Doctor audiobook The Ring of Steel, both of which are rather good...

SHOULD'VE STAYED BURIED
Buried Deep, the first (and only) Bones novel, is an exhilarating mix of predictable plotting, over-described clothing, and inconsistent characterisations bearing little resemblance to the TV series. Jens Deffner lets rip...

MORE REVIEWS: The King's Dragon, Guardian of the Solar System, The Unholy Cause, The Game, Dreamtime, Situation Vacant, Kingdom of the Dead, Cobwebs, Blood Will Tell


MAGIC NUMBERS
Steve Mollmann casts an analytical eye over the sales figures for IDW's ever-expanding range of Star Trek comic books. It's a bit like Information is Beautiful, but with less topicality and more drawings of Nana Visitor. Read >

MORE FEATURES: Joe Schreiber interview, S.D. Perry and Britta Burdett Dennison interview, Michael A. Martin interview


LATEST 20 UPDATES

September 03: Review: Doctor Who: Echoes of Grey
August 29: Review: Bones: Buried Deep
August 29: Review: Monk: Mr. Monk in Outer Space
August 29: Review: Doctor Who: Nevermore
August 18: Review: Doctor Who: The Ring of Steel
August 18: Review: Doctor Who: The Whispering Forest
August 04: Review: Dark Shadows: Kingdom of the Dead
August 04: Review: Doctor Who: Dreamtime
August 04: Review: Doctor Who: The Game
July 23: Review: Doctor Who: Situation Vacant
July 23: Review: Doctor Who: Cobwebs
July 18: Review: Doctor Who: The Guardian of the Solar System
July 17: Review: Doctor Who: The King's Dragon
July 17: Review: Doctor Who: The Juggernauts
July 05: Review: 2000 AD: Blood Will Tell
June 28: Review: Supernatural: The Unholy Cause
June 28: Feature: The Alternative Factor - IDW's Star Trek comics by the numbers
June 28: Review: Doctor Who: Medicinal Purposes
June 28: Review: Doctor Who: The Roof of the World
June 27: Review: 2000 AD: Stranger Than Truth


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