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|image       = Ripper's Curse (comic story).jpg
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|series       = [[Doctor Who (2011)|''Doctor Who'' (2011)]]
|series= [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]: [[Doctor Who (2011)|''Doctor Who'' (2011)]]
|number       = 2
|number= 2
|doctor       = Eleventh Doctor
|doctor= [[Eleventh Doctor]]
|companions   = [[Amy Pond|Amy]], [[Rory Williams|Rory]]  
|companions= [[Amy Pond]]<br>[[Rory Williams]]  
|enemy       = [[Mac'atyde]]
|enemy= [[Jack the Ripper]]
|setting      = {{il|[[Whitechapel]] & [[Scotland Yard]], [[London]], [[30 September]] [[1888]]|[[Whitechapel]], [[8 November|8]]-[[9 November]] [[1888]]|[[Whitechapel]], [[2011]]}}
|year= [[Whitechapel]], [[London]], [[1888]]
|writer       = Tony Lee
|writer= [[Tony Lee]]
|editor       = [[Denton J. Tipton]]
|editor= [[Denton J. Tipton]]
|artist       = [[Richard Piers Rayner]], [[Horacio Domingues]], [[Tim Hamilton]]
|artist= ''Part one''<hr>[[Richard Piers Rayner]]<br>[[Horacio Domingues]]<br>[[Tim Hamilton]]<br>''Part two''<hr>Tim Hamilton<hr>''Part three''<hr>''to be added''
|colourist   = [[Phil Elliott]]
|colourist= [[Phil Elliot]]
|letterer    = [[Shawn Lee]]
|lettering=[[Shawn Lee]]
|publication = [[DW11 2]] - [[DW11 4|4]]
|publication title= [[Doctor Who (2011)|''Doctor Who'' (2011)]] #2-4
|reprint      = {{il|''[[The Ripper (graphic novel)|The Ripper]]''|''[[The Eleventh Doctor Archives: Volume 1]]''}}
|publication dates= [[February]] to [[April]] [[2011]]
|release date = 16 March - 27 April 2011
|publisher= [[IDW Publishing]]
|publisher   = IDW Publishing
|format= [[wikipedia:American comic book|American comic book]] - three issues
|format       = Comic
|previous story= [[Untitled (Doctor Who 2011)|''Untitled]]
|epcount      = 3
|next story=as-yet-unnamed story about [[Saxon]]s and [[Viking]]s in issue #5
|prev        = Spam Filtered (comic story)
|next         = They Think It's All Over (comic story)
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'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' was the second story published in [[Doctor Who (2011)|''Doctor Who'' (2011)]]. Like its predecessor, it featured the newly-married [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] in an adventure with the [[Eleventh Doctor]].  
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story published in [[Doctor Who (2011)|''Doctor Who'' (2011)]]. Like the first, it featured the newly-married [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] in an adventure with the [[Eleventh Doctor]].


==Publisher's summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
'''Solicitation summary for part one:'''
=== Part one ===
:This is it! No alternate worlds, no dreams or virtual cities-it's the first time ever that the Doctor goes up against JACK THE RIPPER! When the Doctor, Rory, and Amy find themselves in Whitechapel in 1888, they become part of a murder hunt for Jack himself-or should that be Jack ITself?  
This is it! No alternate worlds, no dreams or virtual cities-it's the first time ever that [[the Doctor]] goes up against [[Jack the Ripper|JACK THE RIPPER]]! When the Doctor, [[Rory Williams|Rory]], and [[Amy Pond|Amy]] find themselves in [[Whitechapel]] in [[1888]], they become part of a murder hunt for Jack himself-or should that be Jack ITself?


'''Solicitation summary for part two:'''
=== Part two ===
: Jack The Ripper has been caught! And even the Doctor has trouble talking his way out of this one! But why is the true Ripper following Amy? What is her connection to Mary Kelly? And how has Rory become the chief of police?
Jack The Ripper has been caught! And even the Doctor has trouble talking his way out of this one! But why is the true Ripper following Amy? What is her connection to [[Mary Kelly]]? And how has Rory become the chief of police?


'''Solicitation summary for part three:'''
=== Part three ===
:Mary Kelly's dead, but was she supposed to die? In a changing future, the Doctor discovers his actions have led to a larger number of "canonical" Ripper victims—and that Amy is remembered as the next to be murdered… Can they find her before the future becomes real?  
Mary Kelly's dead, but was she supposed to die? In a changing future, the Doctor discovers his actions have led to a larger number of "canonical" Ripper victims—and that Amy is remembered as the next to be murdered... Can they find her before the future becomes real?


==Plot==
== Plot ==
==Part 1==
=== The Ripper's Curse (1) ===
The group travel back to Jack the Ripper's murders.


==Part 2==
=== The Ripper's Gift (2) ===
Amy is kidnapped and wakes up bound and gagged with a green alien lizard looming on her.


==Part 3==
=== The Canonical Twelve (3) ===
The Doctor and Rory hear in the Present Amy became one of the Ripper's victims. They go back to save her, the Doctor saying eventually the Universe will accept the changed list. In the past Amy is bound and gagged and encounters a green monstrosity, that claims it will take the Doctor's Time Craft. She finds Mary Kelly, who was also drugged. The Doctor and Rory meet a similar creature who claims the murderer is Mac'atyde, a criminal he is tracking. They battle and are sent through a portal into space.


==Characters==
== Characters ==
* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
* [[Rory Williams]]
* [[Rory Williams]]
* [[Jack the Ripper]]
* [[Mac'atyde|Jack the Ripper]]
* [[Mary Kelly]]
* [[Mary Kelly]]
==References==
* [[Elizabeth Stride]]
''to be added''
* [[Ju'wes|Charles Warren]]
* [[Inspector]] [[Frederick Abberline]]
* [[Catherine Eddowes]]
* [[Mary Warner]]
* [[Tom Bullen]]
* [[Josie (Ripper's Curse)|Josie]]
* [[Lewis (Ripper's Curse)|Lewis]]
* [[Chief Inspector Smith]]
* [[Bert (Ripper's Curse)|Bert]]
* 2011 Ripper tour guide


==Notes==
== Worldbuilding ==
*Despite the publisher's claim for part one, above, the Doctor has indeed investigated at least the crimes of Jack the Ripper before — and in comic strip form, no less. [[DWM]]'s ''[[The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack]]'' puts the [[Eighth Doctor]] in similar circumstances.
* Amy Pond and Rory Williams use the aliases Miss [[Marple]] and Inspector [[Clouseau]].
* [[Mac'atyde]] hears the Doctor's [[Binary vascular system|two hearts]].
* [[Alternate timeline]]s have a period of time before "the universe accepts them".
* Mac'atyde's portal is mistaken for a freak [[time eddy]].
* Rory claims he liked Inspector Frederick Abberline better when he looked like [[Johnny Depp]].


==Continuity==
== Story notes ==
''to be added''
* Despite the publisher's claim for part one, above, the Doctor has indeed investigated the crimes of Jack the Ripper before, in the BBC novel ''[[Matrix (novel)|Matrix]]''.
* In ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', which aired not long after this comic story concluded, [[Madame Vastra]] claims to have caught and eaten Jack the Ripper. This contradicts the events of ''Ripper's Curse''.


==Cover gallery==
== Continuity ==
<gallery>
* The Doctor says that [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] is "still playing up since all that [[Hard-light hologram|holographic]] [[Spam (email)|spam]] left her". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Spam Filtered (comic story)|Spam Filtered]]'')
DW2011-02-cvra.jpg|Issue 2 (Cover A)
* The Doctor considers starting to carry a [[lasso]] with him, stating that lassos "are cool". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', et al.)
DW2011-02-cvrb.jpg|Issue 2 (Cover B)
* Mac'atyde uses a [[shimmer|shimmer suit]] to disguise himself as human. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
DW2011-02-cvrc.jpg|Issue 2 (Cover C)
* In order to track Mac'atyde down, the Doctor uses a device similar to [[Species matcher|the one]] he used in [[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)|Vincent and the Doctor]]''.
</gallery>
* The Doctor mentions that [[William Shakespeare]] also wasn't fooled by the psychic paper. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')


==Timeline==
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*''{{PAGENAME}}'' occurs after [[IDW]]: [[Untitled (Doctor Who 2011)|Untitled]]
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*''{{PAGENAME}}'' occurs before ''to be announced''


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Latest revision as of 10:44, 18 March 2024

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Ripper's Curse was the second story published in Doctor Who (2011). Like the first, it featured the newly-married Amy Pond and Rory Williams in an adventure with the Eleventh Doctor.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]

This is it! No alternate worlds, no dreams or virtual cities-it's the first time ever that the Doctor goes up against JACK THE RIPPER! When the Doctor, Rory, and Amy find themselves in Whitechapel in 1888, they become part of a murder hunt for Jack himself-or should that be Jack ITself?

Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jack The Ripper has been caught! And even the Doctor has trouble talking his way out of this one! But why is the true Ripper following Amy? What is her connection to Mary Kelly? And how has Rory become the chief of police?

Part three[[edit] | [edit source]]

Mary Kelly's dead, but was she supposed to die? In a changing future, the Doctor discovers his actions have led to a larger number of "canonical" Ripper victims—and that Amy is remembered as the next to be murdered... Can they find her before the future becomes real?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Ripper's Curse (1)[[edit] | [edit source]]

The group travel back to Jack the Ripper's murders.

The Ripper's Gift (2)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Amy is kidnapped and wakes up bound and gagged with a green alien lizard looming on her.

The Canonical Twelve (3)[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor and Rory hear in the Present Amy became one of the Ripper's victims. They go back to save her, the Doctor saying eventually the Universe will accept the changed list. In the past Amy is bound and gagged and encounters a green monstrosity, that claims it will take the Doctor's Time Craft. She finds Mary Kelly, who was also drugged. The Doctor and Rory meet a similar creature who claims the murderer is Mac'atyde, a criminal he is tracking. They battle and are sent through a portal into space.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

  • Despite the publisher's claim for part one, above, the Doctor has indeed investigated the crimes of Jack the Ripper before, in the BBC novel Matrix.
  • In A Good Man Goes to War, which aired not long after this comic story concluded, Madame Vastra claims to have caught and eaten Jack the Ripper. This contradicts the events of Ripper's Curse.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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