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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' is a [[Doctor Who Adventures]] comic strip published in [[2012]].
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' is a [[Doctor Who Adventures]] comic strip published in [[2012]].


==Summary==
== Summary ==
[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] arrives during the closing countdown to the launch of Clean-up Day – when an army of automated [[Garbage-bot]]s are turned over live to remove all rubbish for a cleaner future. But given the freedom to decide what is rubbish the Gar-bots include the humans (which they detect to be covered in germs), and begin a clear-up. The Doctor disguising himself as rubbish, gets collected and taken to the sorting centre where he discovers the Gar-bots central processor and re-programmes their definition of rubbish. As a result of the Doctor’s tinkering the Gar-bots turn on Earth other. People are freed from the rubbish collected (including a guy called ‘Ray’ and the Doctor reflects that a world without friends would be ‘rubbish!’
[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] arrives during the closing countdown to the launch of Clean-up Day – when an army of automated [[Garbage-bot]]s are turned over live to remove all rubbish for a cleaner future. But given the freedom to decide what is rubbish the Gar-bots include the humans (which they detect to be covered in germs), and begin a clear-up. The Doctor disguising himself as rubbish, gets collected and taken to the sorting centre where he discovers the Gar-bots central processor and re-programmes their definition of rubbish. As a result of the Doctor’s tinkering the Gar-bots turn on Earth other. People are freed from the rubbish collected (including a guy called ‘Ray’ and the Doctor reflects that a world without friends would be ‘rubbish!’


==Named characters==
== Named characters ==
* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
* Ray
* Ray


==References==
== References ==
* This is not the first time the Doctor has encountered humans trying to dispose of their rubbish.
* This is not the first time the Doctor has encountered humans trying to dispose of their rubbish.
* The Doctor reflects on friends (and travelling alone).
* The Doctor reflects on friends (and travelling alone).


==Notes==
== Notes ==
* Unusually one of the people, a guard, taken by the Gar-bots, was given a name and called ‘Ray’ .Ray is rescued and re-united with his ‘pal’.
* Unusually one of the people, a guard, taken by the Gar-bots, was given a name and called ‘Ray’ .Ray is rescued and re-united with his ‘pal’.


===Original print details===
=== Original print details ===
* Publication with page count and closing captions
* Publication with page count and closing captions
# [[DWA 291]] (4 pages) DON’T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!
# [[DWA 291]] (4 pages) DON’T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!
* No reprints to date.
* No reprints to date.


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor mentions he likes fan's and even considered to be a fan himself of the writer Charles Dickens (''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'')
* The Doctor mentions he likes fan's and even considered to be a fan himself of the writer Charles Dickens (''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'')


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Revision as of 07:17, 5 January 2013

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Garbage Day! is a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2012.

Summary

The Doctor arrives during the closing countdown to the launch of Clean-up Day – when an army of automated Garbage-bots are turned over live to remove all rubbish for a cleaner future. But given the freedom to decide what is rubbish the Gar-bots include the humans (which they detect to be covered in germs), and begin a clear-up. The Doctor disguising himself as rubbish, gets collected and taken to the sorting centre where he discovers the Gar-bots central processor and re-programmes their definition of rubbish. As a result of the Doctor’s tinkering the Gar-bots turn on Earth other. People are freed from the rubbish collected (including a guy called ‘Ray’ and the Doctor reflects that a world without friends would be ‘rubbish!’

Named characters

References

  • This is not the first time the Doctor has encountered humans trying to dispose of their rubbish.
  • The Doctor reflects on friends (and travelling alone).

Notes

  • Unusually one of the people, a guard, taken by the Gar-bots, was given a name and called ‘Ray’ .Ray is rescued and re-united with his ‘pal’.

Original print details

  • Publication with page count and closing captions
  1. DWA 291 (4 pages) DON’T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!
  • No reprints to date.

Continuity

  • The Doctor mentions he likes fan's and even considered to be a fan himself of the writer Charles Dickens (The Unquiet Dead)