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|name              = Garbage Day!
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|image            = DWA CS 291 GARBAGE DAY!.jpg
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|doctor            = Eleventh Doctor
|doctor            = Eleventh Doctor
|enemy            =  
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|setting          = [[Earth]] [[2423]]
|setting          = [[Earth]] [[2423]]
|writer            = [[Glenn Dakin]]
|writer            = Glenn Dakin
|editor            = [[Natalie Barnes]]
|editor            = [[Natalie Barnes]]
|artist            = [[John Ross]]
|artist            = [[John Ross]]
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|publication      = [[DWA 291]]
|publication      = [[DWA 291]]
|release date      = [[18 October (releases)|18 October]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]] 
|release date      = 18 October 2012
|publisher        = Immediate Media Company London Limited
|publisher        = Immediate Media Company London Limited
|format            = Comic - 1 parts (4 pages)
|format            = Comic
|epcount = 1
|series            = [[DWA comic stories]]
|series            = [[DWA comic stories]]
|prev              = Bite of the Morphuse! (comic story)
|prev              = Bite of the Morphuse! (comic story)
|next              = The Greedy Gulper (comic story)
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' is a [[Doctor Who Adventures]] comic strip published in [[2012]].
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' comic story featuring the [[Eleventh Doctor]].


== 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 clean-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 each other, and free the humans they had trapped inside.


== Named characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
* Ray
* [[Ray (Garbage Day!)|Ray]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* This is not the first time the Doctor has encountered humans trying to dispose of their rubbish.
''to be added''
* 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.
 
== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor mentions he likes fans 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 fans and even considered to be a fan himself of the writer [[Charles Dickens]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'')


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[[Category:DWA comic stories]]
[[Category:Eleventh Doctor DWA comic stories]]
[[Category:Eleventh Doctor DWA comic stories]]
[[Category:2012 comic stories]]
[[Category:Stories set in 2423]]
[[Category:One part comics]]

Latest revision as of 20:16, 23 March 2024

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Garbage Day! was a Doctor Who Adventures comic story featuring the Eleventh Doctor.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

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 clean-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 each other, and free the humans they had trapped inside.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • 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[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Publication with page count and closing captions
  1. DWA 291 (4 pages) DON'T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]