Target Selected (comic story)

Target Selected
Main character(s):	Doom
Featuring:	River
Main enemy:	Death
Main setting:	Stormcage Containment Facility
Key crew
Publisher:	Panini Comics
Editor:	Jason Quinn and Marcus Hearn
Writer:	Jacqueline Rayner
Artist:	Russ Leach
Colourist:	Mike Summers
Letterer:	Roger Langridge
Release details
Printed in:	Four Hours of Doom's Day
Release date:	22 June 2023
Format:	Comic
Doom's Day release order
← Previous	Hour One
Next →	The Plastic Population
Doom's Day chronological order
← Previous	The universe's greatest assassin has just 24 hours to escape Death and find the Doctor - where will Doom's Day take her next?
Next →	The Plastic Population

Target Selected was the first story in the Four Hours of Doom's Day comic anthology publication released with issue 592 of Doctor Who Magazine, and the second overall story in the Doom's Day multimedia series.

Publisher’s summary

Doom’s last day in the Universe kicks off at a maximum security prison … where she runs into someone who may just know the whereabouts of the Doctor.

Plot

Doom is sitting in a dark cell room in Stormcage Containment Facility, chatting with River Song about how to best track down the Doctor and their shared life-styles as assassins.

River suggests Doom take the mission at New Calamino, in which there is a Waxworks Museum, as the Doctor is one of the exhibits there.

Doom thanks River, and as Death slowly approaches, the vortex manipulator goes off, and she hops off to the next location.

Characters

• Doom
• River Song
• Death

References

to be added

Notes

• This story takes place across the hour 0200.
• This is the first DWM strip of any kind to feature River Song, and the second overall to feature an incarnation of Melody Pond, with Mels Zucker having previously appeared in Imaginary Enemies.

Continuity

• River says that Doom is a cold-blooded killer "too", alluding to her past crime of killing the Doctor. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut, The Wedding of River Song)