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|image = Miss Chief.jpg | |||
|doctor = Twelfth Doctor | |doctor = Twelfth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] | |companions = [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] | ||
|featuring = | |featuring = | ||
|enemy = [[Miss Chief]] | |enemy = [[Miss Chief]] | ||
|year = | |year = [[Coal Hill School]], [[October]] [[2010s]]<br>[[England]], [[17th century]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Jacqueline Rayner | ||
|editor = [[Scott Gray]] and [[John Ainsworth]] | |editor = [[Scott Gray]] and [[John Ainsworth]] | ||
|penciller = [[Martin Geraghty]] | |penciller = [[Martin Geraghty]] | ||
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|reprint colourist = | |reprint colourist = | ||
|letterer = [[Roger Langridge]] | |letterer = [[Roger Langridge]] | ||
|publication = [[DWM 497]]-[[DWM 499]] | |publication = [[DWM 497]] - [[DWM 499|499]] | ||
|anthology = | |anthology = | ||
|reprint = | |reprint = | ||
|traded = | |traded = | ||
|release date = | |release date = March - 28 April 2016 | ||
|cover date = | |cover date = April - June 2016 | ||
|publisher = Panini Comics | |publisher = Panini Comics | ||
|format = Comic | |format = Comic, 3 parts (36 pages) | ||
|series = [[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]] | |series = [[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]] | ||
|prev = Theatre of the Mind (comic story) | |prev = Theatre of the Mind (comic story) | ||
|next = | |next = The Stockbridge Showdown (comic story) | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a comic story published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. It was the final regular DWM comic story to feature [[Clara Oswald]] as the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s companion. | |||
}}'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a comic story published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. | |||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
''to be added'' | |||
== Plot == | |||
=== Part one === | |||
A young girl is running with tears streaming down her face, surrounded by monsters. She runs into a witch, who is revealed to be Clara Oswald, and it turns out they are at the Coal Hill Halloween fair. Clara asks what the matter is, and the girl, who is called Susie, tells Clara her cat has gone missing and 'the lady' said she'd never see him again. Clara tells Susie everything will be fine and they go to find the cat, unaware someone is watching them, holding a jester head on a stick. | |||
Clara is on the phone, recalling what just happened, as the duo went to the fortune tellers tent, where Clara mistakenly believes the fortune teller upset Susie. Susie then informs Clara it was a little fat lady. Still on the phone, Clara says she wrote it off as a mystery, until Archie Jones told her one of the teachers had been attacked. She rushed to see what had happened and had found Mr Perkins, dressed as a Devil, sitting there dazed and very confused. She says how the fair was supposed to be a fundraising event for a new ICT suite, but hardly anyone turned up. She asked around for a description of the attacker, and thought he sounded like a seventeenth century puritan, as exactly that bursts into the room. | |||
On the other end of the phone, the Twelfth Doctor dismisses it as someone stirring up trouble, as his entry for the great martian bake-off is ready. He then realises no-one is replying on the other end, and he rushes to the fair, to find all the children under attack from a huge bear. Elsewhere, in a forest, Clara wakes up dazed to find the puritan demanding to know where she sent him. Clara tries to explain it's all a mistake and she's not a witch, as the puritan's guards grab her. The puritan remarks he has evidence to the contrary, looking at Clara's drink, jokingly labelled Witch's brew. | |||
The Doctor and the children are hiding from the bear and one of the boys says he stepped on a crack in the pavement and made it appear. He goes on to explain how superstitions are coming true, but the Doctor dismisses it as nonsense. He then asks for someone to drop a penny on the floor, and tells the boys to run. The Doctor goes up to the bear, and remarks he has a lucky horseshoe, and picked up a penny off the ground. He also says how technically his regenerations mean he is lucky number seven doubled and calls himself the king of good luck. The bear then falls through a hole in the ground, and the Doctor is informed he needs to complete the witch hunt to find Clara. | |||
Clara is tied up and being interrogated by the puritan. The puritan tells of how he was conjured to a land of demons, and saw the devil himself, who was actually just Mr Perkins dressed up, and how he followed the witch hunt and found Clara. Clara asks what he's going to do to her, and the Puritan asks if she can swim. | |||
The Doctor completes the witch hunt, and enters the needlework room and finds a little fat lady in a jesters costume and in possession of the jester stick sitting on the table. She introduces herself as Miss Chief, and tells the Doctor she can travel faster than the speed of time. She says she brought in a real witchfinder for the witch hunt, and remarks she then sent them both back in time, but Clara let herself be captured. The Doctor realises Clara is stranded in the past, but Miss Chief dismisses it, absent mindedly. The Doctor asks which witchfinder it was, and learns it was Matthew Hopkins. He asks Miss Chief if she knows how many innocents he killed, but Miss Chief says it was fine and he was just offering to take Clara for a swim. The Doctor proclaims that was one of his methods, to swim a witch and that if they were guilty they floated and were burnt, and if they were innocent they sank and drowned, just as Clara, in the past, is tied up and thrown into a lake. | |||
=== Part Two === | |||
''to be added'' | ''to be added'' | ||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[ | * [[Twelfth Doctor]] | ||
* [[Clara Oswald]] | * [[Clara Oswald]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Miss Chief]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Mini Mischief]] | ||
* [[Matthew Hopkins]] | * [[Matthew Hopkins]] | ||
* [[Agnes Leech]] | * [[Agnes Leech]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Susie White]] | ||
* [[Smudge]] | * [[Smudge]] | ||
* [[Archie Jones]] | |||
* [[Temple (Witch Hunt)|Mrs Temple]] | |||
* [[Perkins (Witch Hunt)|Mr Perkins]] | |||
* [[Purnima Parry]] | * [[Purnima Parry]] | ||
* [[Danny Pink]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
*The Doctor and Miss Chief play a game of [[Time-Space Scavenger Hunt]]. The objects gathered are | * The Doctor is preparing to partake in ''[[The Great Martian Bake-Off]]'' with [[Mercurian macaron]]s. | ||
* The Doctor says he doubles the [[lucky number]] [[7 (number)|7]] when counting his previous thirteen [[regeneration]]s. | |||
* The Doctor and Miss Chief play a game of [[Time-Space Scavenger Hunt]]. The objects gathered are an [[anteater]] from [[Argentina]], a [[banana]] from [[Brazil]], a [[cougar]] from [[Canada]], a [[denarius]] from [[Dacia]], an [[Sarcophagus|effigy]] from [[Egypt]], a [[flag]] from [[France]], a [[god]] from [[Greece]], a [[helmet]] from [[Hungary]], and [[Ivory]] from [[Indonesia]] still attached to the [[elephant]]. However, because Miss Chief decided to pick a [[Sumatran Elephant]], she had to take it from when Indonesia was known as the Dutch East Indies and loses the game. | |||
* When Clara confesses to being a witch, she lists [[Katy Perry]], [[Nicki Minaj]] and [[Taylor Swift]] among her accomplices. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* Miss Chief claims that [[cougar]]s are extinct. In reality, cougars are not extinct. She is most likely referring to the | * Miss Chief claims that [[cougar]]s are extinct. In reality, cougars are not extinct. She is most likely referring to the {{w|Eastern Cougar}}, a sub-species of cougar, which is extinct. The artwork reflects this, as Miss Chief's cougar bears a resemblance to the Eastern Cougar. | ||
=== Original print details === | |||
:(Publication with page count and closing captions) | |||
* [[DWM 497]] (12 pages) Next: Sink or Swim? | |||
* [[DWM 498]] (12 pages) Next: Cat and Mouse! | |||
* [[DWM 499]] (12 pages) The End. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The Doctor still has | {{section cleanup|Needs to be written from an out of universe perspective.}} | ||
* The Doctor finds a copy of the book ''[[The French Revolution]]'' in Coal Hill School. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') | |||
* The Doctor still has [[Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]]. He had previously abandoned using it when he gave one to the boy [[Davros]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') but retrieved a copy of it from Clara last [[September]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Clara Oswald and the School of Death (comic story)|Clara Oswald and the School of Death]]'') | |||
'' | * Clara hallucinates seeing [[Danny Pink]] after two days of isolation, and he says her brain has conjured up a deceased loved one to prepare her for her possible death. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') | ||
* Clara mentions how Danny gave up his chance at life to save [[Boy (Dark Water)|someone else]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') | |||
* The Doctor says he won't forget Clara, an ironic statement, as that is exactly what happens later on in his travels. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:47, 19 March 2024
Witch Hunt was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine. It was the final regular DWM comic story to feature Clara Oswald as the Twelfth Doctor's companion.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]
A young girl is running with tears streaming down her face, surrounded by monsters. She runs into a witch, who is revealed to be Clara Oswald, and it turns out they are at the Coal Hill Halloween fair. Clara asks what the matter is, and the girl, who is called Susie, tells Clara her cat has gone missing and 'the lady' said she'd never see him again. Clara tells Susie everything will be fine and they go to find the cat, unaware someone is watching them, holding a jester head on a stick.
Clara is on the phone, recalling what just happened, as the duo went to the fortune tellers tent, where Clara mistakenly believes the fortune teller upset Susie. Susie then informs Clara it was a little fat lady. Still on the phone, Clara says she wrote it off as a mystery, until Archie Jones told her one of the teachers had been attacked. She rushed to see what had happened and had found Mr Perkins, dressed as a Devil, sitting there dazed and very confused. She says how the fair was supposed to be a fundraising event for a new ICT suite, but hardly anyone turned up. She asked around for a description of the attacker, and thought he sounded like a seventeenth century puritan, as exactly that bursts into the room.
On the other end of the phone, the Twelfth Doctor dismisses it as someone stirring up trouble, as his entry for the great martian bake-off is ready. He then realises no-one is replying on the other end, and he rushes to the fair, to find all the children under attack from a huge bear. Elsewhere, in a forest, Clara wakes up dazed to find the puritan demanding to know where she sent him. Clara tries to explain it's all a mistake and she's not a witch, as the puritan's guards grab her. The puritan remarks he has evidence to the contrary, looking at Clara's drink, jokingly labelled Witch's brew.
The Doctor and the children are hiding from the bear and one of the boys says he stepped on a crack in the pavement and made it appear. He goes on to explain how superstitions are coming true, but the Doctor dismisses it as nonsense. He then asks for someone to drop a penny on the floor, and tells the boys to run. The Doctor goes up to the bear, and remarks he has a lucky horseshoe, and picked up a penny off the ground. He also says how technically his regenerations mean he is lucky number seven doubled and calls himself the king of good luck. The bear then falls through a hole in the ground, and the Doctor is informed he needs to complete the witch hunt to find Clara.
Clara is tied up and being interrogated by the puritan. The puritan tells of how he was conjured to a land of demons, and saw the devil himself, who was actually just Mr Perkins dressed up, and how he followed the witch hunt and found Clara. Clara asks what he's going to do to her, and the Puritan asks if she can swim.
The Doctor completes the witch hunt, and enters the needlework room and finds a little fat lady in a jesters costume and in possession of the jester stick sitting on the table. She introduces herself as Miss Chief, and tells the Doctor she can travel faster than the speed of time. She says she brought in a real witchfinder for the witch hunt, and remarks she then sent them both back in time, but Clara let herself be captured. The Doctor realises Clara is stranded in the past, but Miss Chief dismisses it, absent mindedly. The Doctor asks which witchfinder it was, and learns it was Matthew Hopkins. He asks Miss Chief if she knows how many innocents he killed, but Miss Chief says it was fine and he was just offering to take Clara for a swim. The Doctor proclaims that was one of his methods, to swim a witch and that if they were guilty they floated and were burnt, and if they were innocent they sank and drowned, just as Clara, in the past, is tied up and thrown into a lake.
Part Two[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Twelfth Doctor
- Clara Oswald
- Miss Chief
- Mini Mischief
- Matthew Hopkins
- Agnes Leech
- Susie White
- Smudge
- Archie Jones
- Mrs Temple
- Mr Perkins
- Purnima Parry
- Danny Pink
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor is preparing to partake in The Great Martian Bake-Off with Mercurian macarons.
- The Doctor says he doubles the lucky number 7 when counting his previous thirteen regenerations.
- The Doctor and Miss Chief play a game of Time-Space Scavenger Hunt. The objects gathered are an anteater from Argentina, a banana from Brazil, a cougar from Canada, a denarius from Dacia, an effigy from Egypt, a flag from France, a god from Greece, a helmet from Hungary, and Ivory from Indonesia still attached to the elephant. However, because Miss Chief decided to pick a Sumatran Elephant, she had to take it from when Indonesia was known as the Dutch East Indies and loses the game.
- When Clara confesses to being a witch, she lists Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift among her accomplices.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Miss Chief claims that cougars are extinct. In reality, cougars are not extinct. She is most likely referring to the Eastern Cougar, a sub-species of cougar, which is extinct. The artwork reflects this, as Miss Chief's cougar bears a resemblance to the Eastern Cougar.
Original print details[[edit] | [edit source]]
- (Publication with page count and closing captions)
- DWM 497 (12 pages) Next: Sink or Swim?
- DWM 498 (12 pages) Next: Cat and Mouse!
- DWM 499 (12 pages) The End.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
Needs to be written from an out of universe perspective.
- The Doctor finds a copy of the book The French Revolution in Coal Hill School. (TV: An Unearthly Child, Remembrance of the Daleks)
- The Doctor still has his sonic screwdriver. He had previously abandoned using it when he gave one to the boy Davros, (TV: The Magician's Apprentice) but retrieved a copy of it from Clara last September. (COMIC: Clara Oswald and the School of Death)
- Clara hallucinates seeing Danny Pink after two days of isolation, and he says her brain has conjured up a deceased loved one to prepare her for her possible death. (TV: Dark Water)
- Clara mentions how Danny gave up his chance at life to save someone else. (TV: Death in Heaven)
- The Doctor says he won't forget Clara, an ironic statement, as that is exactly what happens later on in his travels. (TV: Hell Bent)
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