ACROSS THE WHONIVERSE

LAUNCHING WITH LYTTON before continuing with Omega and most recently Paradise Towers: Paradise Found, Cutaway Comics is providing some fascinating insights into different corners of the vast Doctor Who universe. Now the Manchester publisher – which is also responsible for Who comics fanzine Vworp Vworp! – is embarking upon its most ambitious project to date.

A 12-part superhero-style crossover which brings together such disparate characters as Omega, Sutekh, Iris Wildthyme, Drax and the Tharils, Gods And Monsters is set to hit Kickstarter later this month. It begins in January 2022 with Faustine, a special 48-page standalone story written by “Warriors’ Gate”/“Terminus” author Stephen Gallagher and illustrated by seasoned Who artist Martin Geraghty, before a quartet of one-shots featuring Omega, Sutekh and the others arrive in April. They in turn will lead into June’s Gods And Monsters, a six-issue blockbuster miniseries by Ian Winterton and Paradise Found artist Silvano Beltramo.

“As with came about through a happy confluence of accident and design,” says Cutaway’s Gareth Kavanagh. “I’ve often talked to the team about the brilliance of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, the way that one-shot movies work as satisfying, entertaining individual experiences and as gateways to bigger stories. It’s always been there as an aspiration, and turned out to be the result.”