Gareth's Reviews > Doctor Who: Verdigris

Paul Magrs returns (with Iris Wildthyme in tow) for a Third Doctor story set during his exile on Earth.

It’s a typically Magrs adventure, funny, silly, self-aware and interested in storytelling as a concept. Iris is essentially the protagonist which adds a different flavour; her longing for acceptance from the Doctor is both funny and poignant.

I found it easier to digest than The Blue Angel, but the constant starburst of ideas left quite a few things feeling unexplored or not convincingly connected. It’s an excitable page-turner but it didn’t leave a huge impression on me. Anyone more receptive to Magrs’s style (which by all accounts is most readers) should have a blast.