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{{Infobox Comic
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|comic name= Tesseract
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|series= [[Doctor Who (IDW)]] -<br>[[Doctor Who Ongoing]]
{{Infobox Story SMW
|number= 3
|image        = Tesseract.jpg
|doctor= [[Tenth Doctor]]
|series       = [[Doctor Who (2009)|''Doctor Who'' (2009)]]
|companions= [[Matthew Finnegan]]<br>[[Emily Winter]]<br>[[Martha Jones]] (cameo; returns)
|doctor       = Tenth Doctor
|enemy= [[Acari]], [[Tef'Aree]], the Advocate
|companions   = [[Matthew Finnegan|Matthew]], [[Emily Winter|Emily]]
|year= [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], unnamed [[Acari]] vessel, Fifth Dimensional Space
|featuring    = [[Martha Jones|Martha]]
|writer= [[Tony Lee]]
|enemy       = [[Acari]], [[Tef'Aree]], [[the Advocate]]
|editor=
|setting      = [[The Doctor's TARDIS]], [[Acari]] vessel, Fifth Dimensional Space
|artist= [[Al Davison]]
|writer       = Tony Lee
|colourist= [[Lovern Kindzierski]]
|artist       = [[Al Davison]]
|lettering=  
|colourist   = [[Lovern Kindzierski]]
|publication title= [[Doctor Who Ongoing]] 7-8
|publication = [[DW09 7]] - [[DW09 8|8]]
|publication dates= [[January]] to [[February]] [[2010]]
|release date = 13 January - 3 February 2010
|publisher= [[IDW Publishing]]
|publisher   = IDW Publishing
|format= Comic book - two issues
|format       = [[American comic book]] - two issues
|previous story= [[Fugitive]]
|prev        = Fugitive (comic story)
|next story= [[Don't Step on the Grass]]
|next         = Don't Step on the Grass (comic story)
}}'''''Tesseract''''' is the third part of the story arc begun in ''[[Doctor Who Ongoing]]'' #1. It is divided into two chapters: "Time Smash" and "Implosion".
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'''''Tesseract''''' was the third part of the story arc begun in [[Doctor Who (2009)|''Doctor Who'' (2009)]] #1. It was divided into two chapters: "Time Smash" and "Implosion".


==Summary==
== Summary ==
While the [[Tenth Doctor]] gives his new companions, [[Emily Winter]] and [[Matthew Finnegan]], a tour of [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], the vessel is invaded by a number of dimension-hopping aliens. [[The Advocate]] places doubt into [[Matthew Finnegan]]'s mind about the Doctor's morality, while the [[Tef'Aree]] have much the same effect upon [[Emily Winter]]. Meanwhile, the proximate cause of the invasion — the breech of the TARDIS by the [[Acari]] spaceship —forces the TARDIS interior to rearrange itself. Because the Doctor is psychically linked to the TARDIS, this trauma causes the Doctor to undergo temporary mental instability and his past selves begin to bleed through. Only by disengaging from the Acari ship and quickly restoring the proper console room will the Doctor's [[Tenth Doctor|tenth persona]] fully reassert itself.


While the [[Tenth Doctor|Doctor]] gives his new companions, [[Emily Winter]] and [[Matthew Finnegan]], a tour of the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]], the vessel is invaded by a number of dimension-hopping aliens. [[The Advocate]] places doubt into [[Matthew Finnegan]]'s mind about the Doctor's morality, while the  [[Tef'Aree]] have much the same effect upon [[Emily Winter]].  Meanwhile, the proximate cause of the invasion — the breech of the TARDIS by the [[Acari]] spaceship — forces the TARDIS interior to rearrange itself.  Because the Doctor is psychically linked to the TARDIS, this trauma causes the Doctor to undergo temporary mental instability and his past selves begin to bleed through.  Only by disengaging from the Acari ship and quickly restoring the proper console room will the Doctor's [[Tenth Doctor|tenth persona]] fully reassert itself.
When Emily finds the right console, order is restored. But the Doctor's [[superphone]] rings before they can enjoy their victory. [[Martha Jones]] calls with an urgent appeal for the Doctor to return to [[Earth]] and help [[UNIT]] solve a mysterious new problem . . .


When Emily finds the right console, order is restored.  But the Doctor's [[superphone]] rings before they can enjoy their victory.  [[Martha Jones]] calls with an urgent appeal for the Doctor to return to [[Earth]] and help [[UNIT]] solve a mysterious new problem . . .
== Characters ==
 
* [[Tenth Doctor]]
==Characters==
* [[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]]
* [[Matthew Finnegan]]
* [[Matthew Finnegan]]
* [[Emily Winter]]
* [[Emily Winter]]
* [[Acari]] soldiers
* [[Acari]] soldiers
* The Advocate
* [[The Advocate]]
* [[Gizou]] posing as Acari soldier
* [[Gizou]]
* [[Tef'Aree]]
* [[Tef'Aree]]
* [[Martha Jones]] (cameo)
* [[Martha Jones]]


==References==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The [[Shadow Proclamation]] is mentioned.
* The [[Shadow Proclamation]] is mentioned.
* The Doctor is shown simultaneously wearing elements of the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]] and [[Fifth Doctor]]'s outfits, as well as the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s scarf (which is used to save his life later), the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s hat and the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s cravat.
* The Doctor is shown simultaneously wearing elements of the [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]] and [[Fifth Doctor]]'s outfits, as well as the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's scarf|scarf]], the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s hat and the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s cravat.
* The Doctor describes the TARDIS as "a box of cubes" with each cube shuffling around if the box is shaken.
* [[Adric]] is mentioned several times, including a reference to his death, which is recalled in detail. ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
* The notion of the TARDIS existing in a state of "[[temporal grace]]" is mentioned, and a sly aside is given to the fact that [[script editor]] [[Eric Saward]] sometimes forgot about the concept, introduced in [[DW]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear]]''.   
* [[Donna Noble]] is mentioned.
* [[Donna Noble]] is mentioned.
* The events of [[IDW]]: ''[[Silver Scream]]'' are referenced.
* The Doctor refuses to allow Emily to take possession of [[Jack Harkness]]' [[sonic blaster]] as he says it is reserved for "someone else" ([[River Song]]; [[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead]]'').
* The [[Cloister Bell]] sounds.
* The [[Cloister Bell]] sounds.
* One of the two watches the Doctor offers his companions is a [[wikipedia:Mickey Mouse|Mickey Mouse]] watch (Emily takes this one).
* The Doctor offers his companions a [[Mickey Mouse]] watch.
* Emily arms herself with the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s cricket bat in the cricket club seen in ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''.
* [[Vislor Turlough]] kept a diary in the TARDIS, which Matthew discovers.
* The Doctor's wind-up mouse ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'') is used and is mistaken for [[K-9]] by the Acari.
* [[Vislor Turlough]] is mentioned.  He apparently kept a diary in the TARDIS, which Matthew discovers, but whose contents he does not reveal to his fellow TARDIS travelers.  
* When the Doctor answers his [[superphone]] he initially wonders if [[Christina de Souza|Lady Christina]] might be phoning him.
* When the Doctor answers his [[superphone]] he initially wonders if [[Christina de Souza|Lady Christina]] might be phoning him.
* The Doctor says the TARDIS is "full of old console rooms", evoking ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]'', where the secondary console room was introduced.  It perhaps also implies that all the old console rooms seen throughout the years still exist within the TARDIS.  Indeed, at one point the Doctor goes to a part of the TARDIS that strongly resembles the [[JNT]]-era interior.  At another, he goes into the [[Cloister Room]], as seen in [[Doctor Who (1996)|the TV movie]].  [[Matthew Finnegan]] later discovers the [[First Doctor]]'s console room.
* The Doctor got Martha and her husband a wedding gift which reacted badly with champagne and sent [[Francine Jones|her mother]] to the ceiling. She is filling in as UNIT's scientific advisor while [[Malcolm Taylor|Malcolm]] is in [[Geneva]].
* An oblique reference to the [[Zero Room]] is made when the Doctor notes that the sudden rearrangement of the TARDIS interior is causing him "temporal disarray".
* At one point the Doctor spews quotes from various past televised episodes.  Whilst in the pool from ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'', he recalls precise lines from ''[[State of Decay]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'', and ''[[An Unearthly Child]]''.  At the same time, he is loitering in the TARDIS pool area seen in ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'', and remarks that he thought the area had been jettisoned.  The scene is strongly reminiscent of the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s first moments of consciousness in  ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', wherein snatches of his former selves bleed through.
* The [[tribophysical waveform macrokinetic extrapolator]] is used to disengage the TARDIS from the Acari ship, and the events of ''[[Boom Town]]'' are referenced.
* [[Malcolm Taylor (Planet of the Dead)|Malcolm Taylor]] and [[Erisa Magambo|Captain Magambo]] are namechecked by [[Martha Jones]].  Martha is described as being fresh from her wedding to [[Mickey Smith|an as-yet unspecified man]].  The Doctor got them a wedding gift which reacted badly with champagne, sending [[Francine Jones|her mother]] to the ceiling. Martha gains yet another [[UNIT]] appointment by the time of this story, filling in as UNIT's scientific advisor while Malcolm is in [[Geneva]].


==Notes==
== Notes ==
* The story takes place almost entirely within the bowels of the TARDIS. Only a handful of stories have explored the interior of the TARDIS, including [[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', and [[DWM]]: ''[[Changes]]''. ''Invasion of Time'' is referenced in Part 2 when the Doctor revisits the swimming pool area last seen in that story.
* The story takes place almost entirely within the TARDIS. Only a handful of stories have explored the interior of the TARDIS, including the television stories ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'', and ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'' as well as the comic story ''[[Changes (comic story)|Changes]]''.
* This story was reprinted in the IDW graphic novel ''[[Tesseract (graphic novel)|Tesseract]]''.
* The Advocate implies the TV stories ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'' and ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'' are only a week apart.


==Cover Gallery==
== Continuity ==
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* The Doctor visits many of the TARDIS's old [[console room]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') as well as [[TARDIS art gallery|the art gallery]] and [[TARDIS swimming pool|swimming pool]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') he assumes there were two pools, since he deleted the other one. ([[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]'')
File:Drwho07-cvra.jpg|[[Doctor Who Ongoing]]<br>Issue 7 (Cover A)
* The Doctor's wind-up mouse is used and is mistaken for [[K9]] by the Acari. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]'')
File:Drwho07-cvrb.jpg|[[Doctor Who Ongoing]]<br>Issue 7 (Cover B)
* At one point, the Doctor spews quotes from various previous adventures. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|THe Ultimate Foe]]'', ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'')
File:Drwho08-cvra.jpg|[[Doctor Who Ongoing]]<br>Issue 8 (Cover A)
* The [[tribophysical waveform macrokinetic extrapolator]] is used to disengage the TARDIS from the Acari ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'')
File:Drwho08-cvrb.jpg|[[Doctor Who Ongoing]]<br>Issue 8 (Cover B)
* The Doctor refuses to allow Emily to take possession of [[Jack Harkness]]' [[sonic blaster]] as he says it is reserved for "[[River Song|someone else]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'')
* [[Adric]] is mentioned several times, including a reference to his death, which is recalled in detail. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
* [[Malcolm Taylor]] and [[Erisa Magambo|Captain Magambo]] are namechecked by [[Martha Jones]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'')
* Emily arms herself with the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s cricket bat. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
* The notion of the TARDIS existing in a state of [[temporal grace]] is mentioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]'')
* The TARDIS architecture has previously been tampered with by outside forces. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Mark of Mandragora (comic story)|The Mark of Mandragora]]'')
 
== Cover gallery ==
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File:Drwho07-cvra.jpg|[[Doctor Who (2009)|''Doctor Who'' (2009)]]<br />Issue 7 (Cover A)
File:Drwho07-cvrb.jpg|''Doctor Who'' (2009)<br />Issue 7 (Cover B)
File:Drwho08-cvra.jpg|''Doctor Who'' (2009)<br />Issue 8 (Cover A)
File:Drwho08-cvrb.jpg|''Doctor Who'' (2009)<br />Issue 8 (Cover B)
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==Timeline==
[[Category:DW09 comic stories]]
* ''Tesseract'' occurs soon after: [[IDW]]: ''[[Fugitive]]'' (possibly immediately after as Emily changes out of her 1920s dress in part 1), and at some point after the events of [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' as the Doctor references Lady Christina.
[[Category:Stories set entirely in the TARDIS]]
* The reference to Jack's sonic blaster and the veiled reference to River Song indicates that the Doctor hasn't yet met her (at the time this story was published it was unknown when the Doctor first met River (from River's perspective).
[[Category:UNIT comic stories]]
 
[[Category:2010 comic stories]]
==External Links==
[[Category:Two part comics]]
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Latest revision as of 02:37, 2 December 2023

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Tesseract was the third part of the story arc begun in Doctor Who (2009) #1. It was divided into two chapters: "Time Smash" and "Implosion".

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

While the Tenth Doctor gives his new companions, Emily Winter and Matthew Finnegan, a tour of the TARDIS, the vessel is invaded by a number of dimension-hopping aliens. The Advocate places doubt into Matthew Finnegan's mind about the Doctor's morality, while the Tef'Aree have much the same effect upon Emily Winter. Meanwhile, the proximate cause of the invasion — the breech of the TARDIS by the Acari spaceship —forces the TARDIS interior to rearrange itself. Because the Doctor is psychically linked to the TARDIS, this trauma causes the Doctor to undergo temporary mental instability and his past selves begin to bleed through. Only by disengaging from the Acari ship and quickly restoring the proper console room will the Doctor's tenth persona fully reassert itself.

When Emily finds the right console, order is restored. But the Doctor's superphone rings before they can enjoy their victory. Martha Jones calls with an urgent appeal for the Doctor to return to Earth and help UNIT solve a mysterious new problem . . .

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Doctor Who (2009) Issue 7 (Cover A)

    Doctor Who (2009)
    Issue 7 (Cover A)

  • Doctor Who (2009) Issue 7 (Cover B)

    Doctor Who (2009)
    Issue 7 (Cover B)

  • Doctor Who (2009) Issue 8 (Cover A)

    Doctor Who (2009)
    Issue 8 (Cover A)

  • Doctor Who (2009) Issue 8 (Cover B)

    Doctor Who (2009)
    Issue 8 (Cover B)

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