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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' is a [[Doctor Who Adventures]] comic strip published in [[2012]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' is a [[Doctor Who Adventures]] comic strip published in [[2012]]. | ||
==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 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!’ | ||
==Named characters== | == Named characters == | ||
* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] | * [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] | ||
* Ray | * Ray | ||
==References== | == References == | ||
* This is not the first time the Doctor has encountered humans trying to dispose of their rubbish. | * This is not the first time the Doctor has encountered humans trying to dispose of their rubbish. | ||
* The Doctor reflects on friends (and travelling alone). | * 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. | * No reprints to date. | ||
==Continuity== | == Continuity == | ||
* The Doctor mentions he likes fan's 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 fan's and even considered to be a fan himself of the writer Charles Dickens (''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') | ||
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{{ImageLinkComics}} | {{ImageLinkComics}} | ||
[[Category:DWA comic stories]] | [[Category:DWA comic stories]] | ||
Revision as of 07:17, 5 January 2013
Garbage Day! is a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2012.
Summary
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 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!’
Named characters
- The Doctor
- Ray
References
- This is not the first time the Doctor has encountered humans trying to dispose of their rubbish.
- The Doctor reflects on friends (and travelling alone).
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’.
Original print details
- Publication with page count and closing captions
- DWA 291 (4 pages) DON’T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!
- No reprints to date.
Continuity
- The Doctor mentions he likes fan's and even considered to be a fan himself of the writer Charles Dickens (The Unquiet Dead)
