Justin Partridge’s Reviews > Doctor Who: Last of the Gaderene > Status Update

“I haven’t flown a Spitfire since 2154!”

Gatiss captures Pertwee’s cadence and charm SO well, it’s crazy.

This thing RULES RULES RULES. I think it’s my favorite of these 50th Anniversary reprints so far. It’s really gnarly and isn’t afraid to get truly gross. Man, I’m way into it. I hope all of Mark Gatiss’ Past Doctor Adventures are this good.

I may have said this before but this is basically Salem’s Lot in Rural England. Plus Gatiss is such a big horror person he REALLy knows how to play with major known beats. It makes me REALLT excited for his other DW novels.

Gatiss just dropped a SUPER unsettling detail about the book’s heavies and he did in it barely 3 lines. They have like NO lights on anywhere in their complex. In the interiors or exteriors and they can still work. He’s also starting to work in a body horror element (the second of which in these 50th Anniversary reprints). This is really, really getting good. He writes an awesome Pertwee Era story.

Gatiss writes one hell of a Third Doctor.

Gatiss just threw a whole ass mini adventure for the Doctor for his introduction into the novel’s story. Bliss.

I love that, no matter what he is writing, you can absolutely always tell Gatiss is a horror person.

Started this proper. Gatiss’ new intro was quite lovely.