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"Loads of fun. The jokes are funny, the cartoons are excellent...and the story is entertaining. Excellent work!"

Aphelion Webzine Reviews

"-the more you read the more you're going to get ...bring on more of the good doctor's adventures!"

iComics

"-the intelligent humor and subtle innuendo will make readers laugh out loud!
Imagine Dexter’s Laboratory meets The Far Side and you’ll get an idea of what to expect with Dr. Tim!"

The Comic Fanatic

"-quirky, funny all-ages adventures...engaging and extremely friendly."

PopImage

"Step aside Peanuts, Garfield and Dilbert, Dr. Tim is the new cult cartoon character!"

Sci-Fi Online

"-a perfect book to give to non-comics readers as well as fans...there's lots to enjoy about this book."

Silver Bullet Comics' In The Line Of Fire Reviews

"Sometimes all you want from a graphic novel is a sense of fun and a few laughs, and for those times, I'd definitely recommend Dr. Tim: Book One. Christopher Varian brings to the page a wit that somehow hits the border between dry humor and wacky, with a few sci-fi genre inside jokes and plenty of accessible gags that require nothing more than a sense of humor on the reader's part. This graphic novel is done in one-page cartoons, some of them linked into short over-arching stories but most enjoyable on their own as one-panel gag strips. Varian follows the life of Dr. Tim, scientist, as his vast intellect finds him excluded from a jealous scientific community and on the run from a variety of dangerous foes who wish to misuse his intellect. This chase takes him all over the world, and then beyond it, as the last half of the book finds him teamed up with a sexy female bodyguard and then a hapless alien sidekick. It sounds like a crazy, meandering story, and in fact, it is, but the self-contained nature of the one-page cartoons and the likable energy that Varian brings to the page means that the reader never feels lost or bored.

Dr. Tim opens and closes with longer form stories, as the beginning is all about his origins and a deadpan mockery of the "glamorous" world of science and the end is all about Dr. Tim's adventures in space and the origins of his enemy Dr. Chid. All of these stories are enjoyable, and I especially got a kick out of the transformation that Dr. Tim undergoes in the latter half of the book, playing physically feeble straight man to more capable bodyguard Kat or absent-minded professor to alien sidekick Ushmoo, but the book is at its best in the middle, when Varian is just giving one-page glimpses of Dr. Tim's adventurous life. Varian presents Dr. Tim in encounters with various well-known monsters and scientific curiosities, as well as some hilarious panels where he endures the stereotypical challenges of an action movie (the shark gag is one of my favorites), telling full stories with one panel and a well-chosen caption.

There are samples of Dr. Tim Book One on Varian's web page, and I would encourage readers to check them out, as they give a better sense of the tone and style of the book than I can in this review. At any rate, Dr. Tim Book One is a whole lot of fun, an imaginative use of the one-panel cartoon for extended storytelling that provides plenty of laughs and likable characters."

The 4th Rail's Snap Judgments

Dr. Tim also appeared on Locus Online's List of Notable New Books