roryport's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence
Moderate: Blood
Minor: Fatphobia
tmdavis's review
3.0
Story line was really good but it seemed like each issue was drawn by a different person which made it hard to read because I kept having to stop and figure out who was who every time the issue changed. Some of the drawings were really good and some were so simplistic that they didn't look anything like the characters.
wyrmbergmalcolm's review
2.0
Although it was nice seeing the whole team alive and well, this was a big disappointment. The story wasn't so much as convoluted as a painful mess and the artwork changed drastically between issues but was uniformly bad. Gwen and Tosh, for example, could only be discerned by one wearing glasses and the other having a prominent gap in her teeth, whereas Ianto wore smarter clothes than Owen.
There were a lot of ideas thrown in here, but none really made any sense or had much of a point to them. The low point was the dual time loop at Stone Henge, which was just plain gibberish.
The high point, however, was the bonus story at the back of the book: Jetsam. A crashed alien ship is discovered on the coast and it's cargo has been strewn across the beach. Torchwood are able to secure the area, but not before a salvager has helped himself to a souped-up battle tank/motorbike. The story was much tighter, the artwork was so much better and I felt much more satisfied with this one.
As an extra note, this particular item has the last 30 page segment bound upside-down, which made for some interesting reading.
There were a lot of ideas thrown in here, but none really made any sense or had much of a point to them. The low point was the dual time loop at Stone Henge, which was just plain gibberish.
The high point, however, was the bonus story at the back of the book: Jetsam. A crashed alien ship is discovered on the coast and it's cargo has been strewn across the beach. Torchwood are able to secure the area, but not before a salvager has helped himself to a souped-up battle tank/motorbike. The story was much tighter, the artwork was so much better and I felt much more satisfied with this one.
As an extra note, this particular item has the last 30 page segment bound upside-down, which made for some interesting reading.
quizkidpatrick's review
3.0
I got this because I am beginning to go into Torchwood withdrawal waiting for the new season to start. It was adequate. I thought some of it was cool, but the story was predictable. Don't even get me started on the artwork; let's just say Captain Jack Harkness should be way more dashing than he was drawn. Also one of the artists seemed to draw Tosh and Gwen so similarly that I couldn't tell who was where during parts.
Good for a quick fix, but doesn't hold a candle to the magnificence of Children of Earth.
Good for a quick fix, but doesn't hold a candle to the magnificence of Children of Earth.
nwhyte's review
3.0
https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3010515.html
This pulls together the Rift War! comic story published originally in issues 4-13 of Torchwood Magazine in 2008, and adds at the end a single-episode story, Jetsam, published in issue 3 also in 2008.
I felt that the Rift War! epsiodes did not hang together very well - there was rather a feeling of three different writers (Simon Furman, Paul Grist and Ian Edgington) handing off the storyline between each other without much of a unifying concept. Also I was not attracted by Paul Grist's depictions of the regular characters in six of the ten episodes that he illustrated, though I liked his writing for four of them a bit more. (The artist above is SL Gallant, who I found more to my taste.)
On the other hand, Jetsam was a real gem, written and drawn by Brian Williamson (who has done a lot of Doctor Who art, but this appears to be the only Whoniverse story he has actually written). It's a fairly standard Season 2 alien artefact story, but done with a real sense of warmth and engagement. I hope Williamson can be tempted to do a bt more. Worth getting the book for.
This pulls together the Rift War! comic story published originally in issues 4-13 of Torchwood Magazine in 2008, and adds at the end a single-episode story, Jetsam, published in issue 3 also in 2008.
I felt that the Rift War! epsiodes did not hang together very well - there was rather a feeling of three different writers (Simon Furman, Paul Grist and Ian Edgington) handing off the storyline between each other without much of a unifying concept. Also I was not attracted by Paul Grist's depictions of the regular characters in six of the ten episodes that he illustrated, though I liked his writing for four of them a bit more. (The artist above is SL Gallant, who I found more to my taste.)
On the other hand, Jetsam was a real gem, written and drawn by Brian Williamson (who has done a lot of Doctor Who art, but this appears to be the only Whoniverse story he has actually written). It's a fairly standard Season 2 alien artefact story, but done with a real sense of warmth and engagement. I hope Williamson can be tempted to do a bt more. Worth getting the book for.
khakipantsofsex's review
3.0
Suffering from Torchwood withdrawal, I bought and read this. While it has sated me for the time being, it wasn't spectacular. The plot was adequate, but what really got to me we're some of the graphics. Some chapters had spectacular graphics, while others had terrible ones. At some stages, I could only tell Owen and Ianto apart because Ianto was wearing a suit.
kaffka_es_k's review
2.0
The story is good but also a bit confusing due to several phenomena happening within the main storyline.
The drawing is very bad: Jack doesn’t look like Jack (sometimes he has a huge chin or a face like an egg) and you can only distinguish between Ianto and Owen by who is wearing a suit...
The drawing is very bad: Jack doesn’t look like Jack (sometimes he has a huge chin or a face like an egg) and you can only distinguish between Ianto and Owen by who is wearing a suit...
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