{"id":5440,"date":"2014-06-02T01:20:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T05:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calverosdepot.com\/blog\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2017-03-17T00:39:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T04:39:23","slug":"doctor-whos-silent-scream-comic-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calverosdepot.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/02\/doctor-whos-silent-scream-comic-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who meets Charlie Chaplin. Sort of. – Comic book review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silent Scream, parts 1 & 2<\/strong>
\nWritten by Tony Lee
\n<\/strong>Illustrated\u00a0by Al Davidson<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"A few days ago, Humble Bundle<\/a> was having a major sale of dozens of digital Doctor Who comic books<\/a>.with part of the sales going to charity (Sorry, so sorry, it’s over now \ud83d\ude41 ). \u00a0The max payment tier was just $15 for over 80 digital issues. \u00a0I have been interested in getting the digital comic books, particularly interested in the Silver Scream issue since it first came out in 2009 (I have enjoyed the few paper DW comics\u00a0that I have) but never (though close) got around to buying it. \u00a0And in the spirit of Chaplin’s 125th birthday, 100th anniversary of his films, and the excellent price, I snagged it!<\/p>\n

At the end of series 4 episode, “Journey’s End” of Doctor Who, Donna makes a request to meet Chaplin, just as she is having a mental breakdown due to her mind melding with the Doctor’s. (And I’m just re-watching on Netflix. Oh, the feels!). \u00a0And in this issue, the Doctor “helps to finish her last wish”.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong> (no spoilers!)
\nThe Doctor arrives in 1926 at a Hollywood party hosted by Archie. Two things brought him here: last request by his now departed companion, Donna, and a mysterious static point in space and time. \u00a0A bunch of bad things are happening. So the Doctor can’t help but investigate it.<\/p>\n

A Sample Page<\/strong>
\nWhich is also the beginning of the story,\u00a0can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So why isn’t it actually Chaplin?<\/strong>
\nSo, as you can see by the cover art, it’s not exactly Chaplin. It turned out that near the end of working on the issue, IDW (comic book publisher) was not able to work our an agreement with the Chaplin estate. So they had to make some changes to the name, Archibald Maplin, and his mustache, hat, and cane.<\/p>\n

While the artwork was pretty good in the beginning, it had some room for improvement towards the end. But there were a number of things that impressed me about the story. When I first heard about this, I was just expecting the Doctor to pop-up and share some sort of adventure. I was not expecting Mr Lee to be familiar (or well researched?) with Chaplin’s life, specifically 1926.<\/p>\n

So how many names changed?<\/strong>
\nSo due to there being no agreement between the Chaplin estate and IDW (Boo on the CE…. ((don’t hurt me!)) but they missed a great opportunity of properly introducing him to Whovians and comic book fans), a number of things had to be renamed. \u00a0Here’s all the ones I noticed, in order of appearance<\/p>\n