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|name= The Lodger
|range = DWM comic stories{{!}}DWM Comics
|number in range = 128
|image= LodgerComicTitle.jpg
|image= LodgerComicTitle.jpg
|series=[[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]
|series=[[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]
|number=  
|number=  
|doctor= Tenth Doctor
|main character= [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]]
|companions=[[Rose Tyler|Rose]]
|featuring= Tenth Doctor
|featuring=[[Mickey Smith|Mickey]], [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]]
|featuring2= Rose Tyler
|featuring3=Jackie Tyler
|enemy= [[Bandrigan]]s
|enemy= [[Bandrigan]]s
|setting= [[London]], [[2007]]
|setting= [[London]], [[2007]]
|writer= [[Gareth Roberts]]
|writer= Gareth Roberts
|editor= [[Clayton Hickman]], [[Scott Gray]]
|editor= [[Clayton Hickman]], [[Scott Gray]]
|adapted into=The Lodger (TV story)
|adapted into = The Lodger (TV story)
|penciller= [[Mike Collins]]
|penciller= [[Mike Collins]]
|inker=[[David A. Roach]]
|inker = [[David A. Roach]]
|colourist=[[James Offredi]]
|colourist=[[James Offredi]]
|letterer=[[Roger Langridge]]
|letterer = [[Roger Langridge]]
|publication= [[DWM 368]]
|publication= [[DWM 368]]
|reprint=''[[The Betrothal of Sontar (graphic novel)|The Betrothal of Sontar]]''
|reprint=The Betrothal of Sontar (graphic novel)
|release date= 26 April [[2006]]
|release date= 30 March 2006
|cover date= 26 April 2006
|publisher= Panini Comics
|publisher= Panini Comics
|format= Comic - 1 part  
|format= Comic - 1 part  
|prev= The Betrothal of Sontar (comic story)
|prev= The Betrothal of Sontar (comic story)
|next= F.A.Q. (comic story)
|next= F.A.Q. (comic story)
}}
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a one-part comic story in the pages of [[DWM 368]]. It featured the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Mickey Smith]] and [[#Comparison with televised version|served as the basis]] for [[writer]] [[Gareth Roberts]]' later [[Eleventh Doctor]] [[The Lodger (TV story)|television story of the same name]].
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a one-part comic story in the pages of [[DWM 368]]. It featured the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Mickey Smith]], with [[Rose Tyler]] in a reduced role. It served as the basis for [[Gareth Roberts]]' [[Eleventh Doctor]] [[The Lodger (TV story)|television story of the same name]].


It was further notable for giving readers a glimpse into Mickey's post-''[[The Christmas Invasion|Christmas Invasion]]'' life. This was useful for contemporaneous readers. Since [[DWM 368]] came out at the start of the broadcast of [[series 2 (Doctor Who)|series 2]], rumours abounded about Mickey actually joining [[the TARDIS]] crew. This story served as a reminder of Mickey's past with the Doctor and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] and foreshadowed some of the tensions between the Doctor and Mickey that played out over the course of the second series.
''The Lodger'' was notable for giving readers a glimpse into Mickey's life outside of his relationship with Rose and the Doctor, which proved useful for contemporaneous readers, as it premiered at the start of the broadcast of [[Series 2 (Doctor Who 2005)|Series 2]], with rumours abounded about Mickey joining [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] crew, allowing a new audience to be reminded and informed of Mickey's past with the Doctor and Rose, as well as foreshadow some of the tensions between the Doctor and Mickey that played out over the course of the second series.


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] lands the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] in present-day [[London]], but before [[Rose Tyler]] can emerge, the TARDIS dematerialises because the Doctor forgot to lock the time settings. The TARDIS jumps a [[time track]] and moves ahead several days. Left stranded in London while he waits for Rose to catch up — only a few seconds will have passed for her — the Doctor needs somewhere to stay. After an aborted attempt at visiting [[Jackie Tyler]] (who is occupied with one of her suitors), the Doctor decides to crash at [[Mickey Smith]]'s flat, where he proceeds to be a less-than-welcome houseguest. Meanwhile, a [[Bandrigan]] fleet approaches Earth with plans to destroy it.
The [[Tenth Doctor]] lands [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in present-day [[London]], but before [[Rose Tyler]] can emerge, the TARDIS dematerialises because the Doctor forgot to lock the time settings. The TARDIS jumps a [[time track]] and moves ahead several days. Left stranded in London while he waits for Rose to catch up — only a few seconds will have passed for her — the Doctor needs somewhere to stay. After an aborted attempt at visiting [[Jackie Tyler]], who is occupied with one of her suitors, the Doctor decides to crash at [[Mickey Smith's flat]], where he proceeds to be a less-than-welcome houseguest for [[Mickey Smith]]. Meanwhile, a [[Bandrigan]] fleet approaches Earth with plans to destroy it.
 
== Plot ==
''to be added''


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Tenth Doctor]]
* [[Tenth Doctor]]
* [[Mickey Smith]]
* [[Mickey Smith]]
* [[Gina (The Lodger)|Gina]]
* [[Chris (The Lodger)|Chris]]
* [[Big Robbo]]
* [[Little Robbo]]
* [[Rose Tyler]]
* [[Rose Tyler]]
* [[Jackie Tyler]]
* [[Jackie Tyler]]
* [[Gina (The Lodger)|Gina]]
* [[Chris (The Lodger)|Chris]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* Gina expresses a desire to follow in the footsteps of singer {{w|KT Tunstall}}.
* Mickey lies to his workmates by telling them Rose moved away to [[Northampton]].
* The Doctor drinks a {{w|Pepsi}} at Mickey's flat.
* Mickey attempts to get the Doctor to use the alias "John from [[Southampton]]".
* Mickey is shown sticking the [[sonic screwdriver]] into his mouth. Sticking a sonic screwdriver into one's mouth results in [[tooth]] extraction, but the screwdriver is capable of putting them back in.
* Gina expresses a desire to follow in the footsteps of singer [[KT Tunstall]].
* The Bandrigan threat is only minor, and only their vessels are seen (on Mickey's [[television]]) before the Doctor masks the Earth from their sensors, tricking them into leaving.
* The Doctor drinks a [[Pepsi]] at Mickey's flat.
* Mickey is shown sticking [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver]] into his mouth. Sticking a sonic screwdriver into one's mouth results in [[tooth]] extraction, but the screwdriver is capable of putting them back in.
* The Bandrigan threat is only minor, and only their vessels are seen on Mickey's [[television]] before the Doctor masks the Earth from their sensors, tricking them into leaving.
* The Doctor is a skilled [[football]] player.
* The Doctor is a skilled [[football]] player.
* The Doctor is savvy enough with video games to find a way to win a shoot-em-up without resorting to digital violence. He also adjusts Mickey's TV so that it picks up TV programmes from a decade in the future, as well as images of an [[alien]] fleet in space.
* The Doctor is savvy enough with video games to find a way to win a shoot-em-up without resorting to digital violence. He also adjusts Mickey's TV so that it picks up TV programmes from a decade in the future, as well as images of an [[alien]] fleet in space.
* While four days pass for the Doctor and Mickey, only a few seconds pass for Rose.
* The Doctor tells Rose to watch ''[[EastEnders]]''.


== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
* Mickey attempts to get the Doctor to use the alias John "from Southampton". This is the second DWM story in a row in which a single-name alias is suggested for the Doctor (although he rejects this one). Coincidentally, the Doctor's most common alias is [[Aliases of the Doctor|John Smith]].
''to be added''
* This story takes place immediately after an unchronicled encounter with "some angry [[Lombards]]".
* The story takes place over the course of four days, for the Doctor and Mickey; for Rose, only a few seconds pass.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* This story appears to take place not long after [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' and well before [[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion]]''. Mickey makes reference to the Doctor's recent regeneration and is still seething with the jealousy he displayed in his early appearances (but has dropped by the time of ''School Reunion'', when he becomes an official companion). Despite the conflict between them, Mickey ends the story reunited with Rose (if temporarily) and impressed by the Doctor.
* Mickey loses his teeth when he mistakenly uses [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver]] as a [[toothbrush]], something the Ninth Doctor once warned Rose not to do in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Love Invasion (comic story)|The Love Invasion]]''.
* Mickey mentions the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', in particular his abduction by the [[Nestene Consciousness]].
* The Doctor offers to take Rose to [[Oxyveguramosa]], a [[planet]] previously mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (novelisation)|The Ultimate Foe]]''.
* The TARDIS appears to land in the exact same location as in [[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]''.
* The Doctor once again plays video games with Mickey, and shows off his remarkable skills with them., something that had previously occured in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Winner Takes All (novel)|Winner Takes All]]''.
* The Doctor offers to take Rose to [[Oxyveguramosa]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (novelisation)|The Ultimate Foe]]'')
* Mickey makes reference to the Doctor's recent [[regeneration]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'' and how he was abducted by the [[Nestene Consciousness]] when Rose was "stole[n]" from him by the [[Ninth Doctor]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''.
 
== Comparison with televised version ==
The televised version of ''The Lodger'' obviously features a different roommate, [[Craig Owens]]; a different girlfriend, [[Sophie (The Lodger)|Sophie]]; and a markedly different threat. Yet a number of the beats in the eight-page comic make their way into the televised story.
 
* In both stories, [[the TARDIS]] jumps a [[time track]] and the Doctor is forced to wait several days for it to arrive, precipitating his need for lodging. In the comic's case, it's because the [[Tenth Doctor]] has been careless. In the television story, the TARDIS-like thing on the top of the [[Aickman Road]] house is actively preventing its landing. In both cases, the [[companion]] is sidelined from the narrative because she is trapped inside the travelling TARDIS.
* Though they take up about the same percentage of the story — which is to say ''not much'' — [[Amy Pond|Amy]] and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] have totally different parts to play. Rose shows up only at the very end of the story and is oblivious to the fact that there's been a problem with the TARDIS at all. Amy is seen in brief interludes throughout the television story and her life is actively imperilled by the out-of-control TARDIS.
* Like Craig, Mickey is uncertain about what to do about his romantic life. Mickey's main motivation throughout the story is to try to get some sort of functional relationship with a woman — though he seems far more capable at getting a date with Gina than Craig was with Sophie.
* Like the [[Eleventh Doctor]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] tries to prove his normalcy by cooking an [[omelette]] for his new roomie.
* The Doctor's [[sonic screwdriver]] goes into the [[toothbrush]] holder in both bathrooms. Mickey picks it up and accidentally sonics out his teeth, while the Eleventh Doctor accidentally picks up Craig's toothbrush and tries to sonic the door atop the stairs with it.
* While the [[Eleventh Doctor]] is busy building a weird device in the privacy of his bedroom, the [[Tenth Doctor]] spends his days trying to improve the tech in Mickey's flat. He makes it so that Mickey is receiving TV programmes from the future and otherwise maximises Mickey's kit.
* Both Doctors play some local [[football]]; both totally dominate the competition; both leave their roommates feeling glum about their own footie skills.
* The two Doctors have different attitudes towards their respective football matches. Craig asks a bewildered Eleventh Doctor to play, whereas the Tenth Doctor actively volunteers for Mickey's squad. Indeed, the Tenth Doctor is far more confident in his knowledge of the game and his abilities. This obviously fits into ''DWM'' continuity, as the [[Eighth Doctor]] was shown to be a football enthusiast in another Gareth Roberts story, ''[[Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game]]''. It also jibes with ''[[Aliens of London]]'', where the [[Ninth Doctor]] tells Mickey that [[the TARDIS]] can pick up football matches on its scanner. In contrast, the Eleventh Doctor suggests to Amy and Craig that he has no idea what football is.
* Like Craig, Mickey tries to convince the Doctor not to introduce himself to the football team as "the Doctor". Like the [[Eleventh Doctor]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] does so anyway and the players have no problem with the name.
* Mickey's football side is considerably more relaxed than Craig's. Whereas the Eleventh Doctor is given a proper uniform with a big number "11" on it, the Tenth Doctor is, like the rest of the team, dressed in nothing special.
* The Tenth Doctor is far more socially adept than the Eleventh. He spends time at a pub after the match, where he helps his team beat a trivia machine. In one frame, he's also seen smiling and having a pint. This contrasts with the Eleventh Doctor's awkwardness — which later episodes suggest may have been an act — and his apparent disdain for wine.
* Whereas the Eleventh Doctor tries to encourage Craig and Sophie to get together, he actively breaks up Mickey and [[Gina (The Lodger)|Gina]], saying that Mickey "would never have gone through with it". Otherwise, the scene of Mickey's date with Gina is very similar to that of Craig's with Sophie. In both, the roommate is surprised to find the Doctor home and sternly tells the Doctor to stay in his room. Then the Doctor comes into the living room just looking for "some wire". He's invited to stay by both dates, who offer him a drink. He enchants both dates, urging them to do something extraordinary with their lives. Both Gina and Sophie seem prepared to apply for careers that will take them far away from Mickey and Craig.
* Both stories are resolved by an affirmation of love. The televised story has Craig declaring his love for Sophie as the reason he doesn't want to leave — thus ending the threat of what we later come to know as the [[Silent]]s' TARDIS. The comic story ends with the Doctor playing cupid between Rose and Mickey. Realising that he's cramped Mickey's style of late, he invents a problem on the finally-arrived TARDIS so Mickey and Rose can have some alone time together.


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The Lodger was a one-part comic story in the pages of DWM 368. It featured the Tenth Doctor and Mickey Smith, with Rose Tyler in a reduced role. It served as the basis for Gareth Roberts' Eleventh Doctor television story of the same name.

The Lodger was notable for giving readers a glimpse into Mickey's life outside of his relationship with Rose and the Doctor, which proved useful for contemporaneous readers, as it premiered at the start of the broadcast of Series 2, with rumours abounded about Mickey joining the TARDIS crew, allowing a new audience to be reminded and informed of Mickey's past with the Doctor and Rose, as well as foreshadow some of the tensions between the Doctor and Mickey that played out over the course of the second series.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Tenth Doctor lands his TARDIS in present-day London, but before Rose Tyler can emerge, the TARDIS dematerialises because the Doctor forgot to lock the time settings. The TARDIS jumps a time track and moves ahead several days. Left stranded in London while he waits for Rose to catch up — only a few seconds will have passed for her — the Doctor needs somewhere to stay. After an aborted attempt at visiting Jackie Tyler, who is occupied with one of her suitors, the Doctor decides to crash at Mickey Smith's flat, where he proceeds to be a less-than-welcome houseguest for Mickey Smith. Meanwhile, a Bandrigan fleet approaches Earth with plans to destroy it.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Mickey lies to his workmates by telling them Rose moved away to Northampton.
  • Mickey attempts to get the Doctor to use the alias "John from Southampton".
  • Gina expresses a desire to follow in the footsteps of singer KT Tunstall.
  • The Doctor drinks a Pepsi at Mickey's flat.
  • Mickey is shown sticking the Doctor's sonic screwdriver into his mouth. Sticking a sonic screwdriver into one's mouth results in tooth extraction, but the screwdriver is capable of putting them back in.
  • The Bandrigan threat is only minor, and only their vessels are seen on Mickey's television before the Doctor masks the Earth from their sensors, tricking them into leaving.
  • The Doctor is a skilled football player.
  • The Doctor is savvy enough with video games to find a way to win a shoot-em-up without resorting to digital violence. He also adjusts Mickey's TV so that it picks up TV programmes from a decade in the future, as well as images of an alien fleet in space.
  • While four days pass for the Doctor and Mickey, only a few seconds pass for Rose.
  • The Doctor tells Rose to watch EastEnders.

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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