Rough Waters (comic story)

Rough Waters
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Amy
Main enemy:	Time Roaches
Main setting:	21 October 1805 Earth
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
Editor:	Moray Laing
Writer:	Trevor Baxendale
Artist:	John Ross
Colourist:	Alan Craddock
Release details
Release number:	196
Printed in:	DWA 196
Release date:	9 December 2010
Format:	Comic - 1 parts (4 pages)
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Rough Waters is a Doctor Who Adventures comic story featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond.

Summary

Onboard a sailing ship in the middle of the Battle of Trafalgar, the sailing crew explain to the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond that they are on the run from a sea monster that came out of the fog, a giant metal beast (believed by the crew to be the Kraken).

However, the Doctor and Amy recognise it as a modern-day aircraft carrier. The Doctor abandons Amy while he nips off in the TARDIS to the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. A quick examination of the controls reveals an infestation of Time Roaches – creatures that, attracted by radiation leaks into the Space-Time continuum, have got into the engines and caused trouble by dropping the carrier two hundred years back in the past.

Tracking the infestation to the engine room, the Doctor reverses the neutron flow and the Time Roaches are sent back into the Vortex. The Doctor leaves the carrier with little time to spare before it goes back to its own time. He returns to collect Amy, who has made friends with some of the sailors aboard the ship.

Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Amy Pond

References

• The Doctor remarks that he doesn’t believe the metal monster is a Kraken having “sent the Kraken back to its home planet years ago”

Notes

• The DWA comic strip adventures were aimed at a younger audience and the artwork and colours were bold and bright, reflecting the tone of the magazine.
• Self contained, one part stories were the norm.
• The sailor who has befriended Amy in the final frame is dressed in a stripy jumper not consistent with other sailor’s costumes seen onboard the ship.

Original print details

• Publication with page count and closing captions

1. DWA 196 (4 pages) NEXT WEEK – It’s a red Christmas for the Doctor and Amy

• No reprints to date.

Continuity

to be added