10 Ways That Doctor Who Was Better In The 1990s
5. The Doctor Who Magazine Comic Strip
Remember the Doctor's question mark underwear? His Cyberman companion? That time he used alien technology to accidentally render a historic warrior immortal? Of course you do, these were all elements from Steven Moffat's era as showrunner. Except they're also prominent plot points from the Eight Doctor comic strips from Doctor Who Magazine. Even the underwear!
Until Paul McGann reprised his role as the Doctor for Big Finish in the early 2000s, the Eighth Doctor's adventures took place in comic strip and novel form. There was a short-lived comic strip in the UK TV listings magazine Radio Times, and a long-running strip in Doctor Who Magazine. It paired the Doctor with Izzy Sinclair, a sci-fi fan and the perfect modern, post-modern Doctor Who companion.
Their adventures saw the next terrifying stage of Dalek mutation, the Doctor becoming a vampire, a reunion with Grace Holloway, and the Doctor's battle with the Master for control of the Omniverse. The fact that the show wasn't on TV gave writers Alan Barnes and Scott Gray real creative freedom to explore what they could achieve within the comic book medium. For the lost generation of Wilderness Years fans, this was their new Doctor Who, and it was absolutely thrilling.