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{{Infobox Story
|name              = The Comfort of the Good
|name              = The Comfort of the Good
|image            =  
|image            = The Comfort of the Good.jpg
|doctor            = Eleventh Doctor
|doctor            = Eleventh Doctor
|companions        = [[Alice Obiefune|Alice]], [[John Jones|Jones]], [[ARC]]
|companions        = [[Alice Obiefune|Alice]], [[John Jones|Jones]], [[ARC]]
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|colourist        = [[Gary Caldwell]]
|colourist        = [[Gary Caldwell]]
|letterer          = [[Richard Starkings]]<br>[[Jimmy Betancourt]]
|letterer          = [[Richard Starkings]]<br>[[Jimmy Betancourt]]
|cover            = [[Boo Cook]] (regular, part 1), [[Simon Fraser]] / Boo Cook / [[AJ]] (regular, part 2), [[Marc Ellerby]] (cover c, part 2)
|publication      = [[11D 14]]-[[11D 15|15]]
|publication      = [[11D 14]]-[[11D 15|15]]
|reprint          = ''[[Doctor Who Comic]]'' #[[DWCT 2.5|2.5]]-[[DWCT 2.6|2.6]]
|traded            = ''[[Conversion (graphic novel)|Conversion]]''
|release date      = [[8 July (releases)|8 July]] - [[12 August (releases)|12 August]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]
|release date      = [[8 July (releases)|8 July]] - [[12 August (releases)|12 August]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]
|cover date        = [[August (releases)|August]] - [[September (releases)|September]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]
|cover date        = [[August (releases)|August]] - [[September (releases)|September]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]

Revision as of 00:45, 14 February 2016

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The Comfort of the Good was the eleventh story of the Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor comic strip series published in 2015, and the two-part finale to the first year of the series. It saw the departures of John Jones and ARC, and wound up the SERVEYOUinc storyline.

Summary

  • Series co-writers Al Ewing and Rob Williams team up for an unmissable mini-epic, as a year's worth of stories come to a head!
  • Can the Doctor save his new friends from their time-twisting fates?
  • Will Alice find peace – or be marooned far from Earth?!
  • Will ARC finally discover the truth about itself – or be reduced to atoms?!
  • Will Jones fulfill his cosmic rock god destiny – or die among the stars?!
  • And who will be left to join the Doctor as we head into Year Two?!

Plot

Part one

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Part two

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Characters

References

  • Several references are made to The Snowman. Jones is shown looking through his memory attic, referencing David Bowie's video introduction to the film. Jones is also depicted flying in the sky in his pyjamas with a cloud mass resembling the titular flying snowman.
  • Talent Scout takes on the appearance of The Doctor's mother.

Notes

  • This was the second Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor two-parter released under the same title.
  • This was the last story of Year One.

Original print details

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Continuity

  • The Doctor remembers being thrown out of the TARDIS after it was hit by a paradox, and reveals that the TARDIS intentionally threw him out as a warning shot. (COMIC: Four Dimensions)
  • Jones references going to Ancient Rome and Mississippi and inventing Xavi Moonburst. (COMIC: Conversion, What He Wants, The Other Doctor)
  • The mysterious Time Lord stalking the Doctor is revealed to now be in charge of the Doctor's TARDIS, and the Doctor believes her to be his mother. (COMIC: After Life) It turned out to be the Talent Scout, masquerading as the Doctor's mother.
  • The Doctor remembers Alice has a link to the TARDIS psychic circuits from when the Talent Scout last tried to stow away on the TARDIS. (COMIC: Four Dimensions)
  • The Doctor, Alice, and Jones return to the Dog & Duck so Jones can resume his music career and Alice can see her mother as a young woman. (COMIC: What He Wants...)