Doctor Who classics series 2 #1

This issue collect 2 short stories featuring the 4th Doctor. As usual the coloring and re-printing quality is great. Kodus to IDW.

The Life Bringer - A dimensional warp brings the Doctor and K9 to a beach and a rock to which the Titan Prometheus has been chained as punishment for bringing the spark of Life to the galaxy. The Doctor and K9 free him and use the TARDIS to take him to the planet Olympus, where the gods are still angry at him for scattering Life across the galaxy before it had been perfected. Zeus has Prometheus locked up and sends the Doctor to Asclepius for dissection, but the Doctor manages to escape and frees Prometheus. Before departing, Prometheus once again steals Zeus’ precious life spores. The Doctor, K9 and Prometheus reach the TARDIS and flee just as the enraged Zeus attempts to smite them with a thunderbolt. The thunderbolt scrambles the TARDIS’ navigational systems, so that when Prometheus departs to spread the spark of random Life throughout Zeus’ sterile galaxy once again, the Doctor can’t be sure whether he’s just left Earth -- or is just approaching it.

The story is nice but it would have been nicer if the Olympians were described a bit deferent then in the Greek mythology. This is supposed to be sci-fi story. Sicne I believe that old the mythological gods were beings from advanced races, I don't see anything special about the Doctor encountering them and the way they treat humans.

War of the Words - The TARDIS lands on the library world Biblios, where a vicious battle is being fought in orbit between the Vromyx and Garynths. The two species are each attempting to prevent the other from gaining access to the planet’s data on super-weapons, although the robot librarians have repeatedly told them that there are no such records. The Doctor uses a map of the library to locate an empty storage facility, and then contacts the fleet leaders and informs them that he intends to ensure neither species will ever get its hands on the super-weapon data. He then destroys the empty building, and the fleets, assuming that there is no longer anything to fight over, depart empty-handed.

Beings from alien races behaving in a very typical human way.

All in all, this issue is a veyr nice and easy reading. Perfect for mid-summer :)