Script: Rob Davis Art: John Ross, James Offredi
The bus from Mars by Noe Geric 3/1/20
Bus Stop! begins with a lonely guy reading his newspaper in the bus... And this man only complains for the whole story. It could be annoying, but this man (we never learn his name) is exactly who I am when a really strange guy comes and sit next to me in the bus. He meets the Doctor in the bus; the Time Lord is one of these ''weirdos'' he hates because they're doing stupid things to look interesting. The sort of guy who thinks he's interesting when he borrows your phone and talks to his imaginary friend on Mars. That man also doesn't get any ''speaking'' line. Everything he says is in his thought.
The Doctor and Martha are on a mission between present and future, on Earth and Mars. The Doctor tries to fight Time's Assassins (not really an original name) and Martha is in the future trying to take him back in the present. Nothing really interesting happens: the assassins try to capture the Doctor and the president's ancestor, Martha and the president and his guard are trying to break into a laboratory... Nothing really incredible.
The president and the aliens aren't really deep characters, and the story began in the middle of the action... But that's not disturbing. The interesting bit is what the ''Bus Guy'' thinks of the Doctor and all his talking about alien invasions. As a one-episode comic strip, it's comical and not too deep. Just a simple filler between two bigger stories. The plot isn't complicated once the Doctor explains everything, but the drawings aren't really fabulous. They're too simple without details.
To conclude, Bus Stop! is a nice little strip and isn't going to change the Doctor Who mythology. It's acceptable, and the man from the bus gets nice lines. The Tenth Doctor/Martha team is well characterized, and once again we don't have all the mess about Martha loving the Doctor.
I give it 7/10. It's enjoyable but not better than The Woman Who Sold the World.