Art Attack (comic story)

Art Attack
Doctor:	Ninth Doctor
Companion(s):	Rose
Main enemy:	Cazkelf
Main setting:	Oriel, 37th century
Key crew
Editor:	Clayton Hickman
Writer:	Mike Collins
Penciller:	Mike Collins
Inker:	Kris Justice
Colourist:	Dylan Teague
Letterer:	Roger Langridge
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Printed in:	Doctor Who Magazine 358
Release date:	23 June 2005
Cover date:	20 July 2005
Traded in:	The Cruel Sea
Format:	Comic - 1 part
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Art Attack was a Doctor Who Magazine comic story featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler.

Summary

The Oriel, the greatest art gallery in the world, has everything: Dogs at tables playing cards... the Mona Lisa... special tour guides... and a strange metal statue. When the Ninth Doctor and Rose find strange goings on with the free headsets, it's time for the Doctor to save the day, but is it too late to save Rose? Is it an invasion or could it be worse?

Plot

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Characters

• Ninth Doctor
• Rose Tyler
• Cazkelf
• Guard
• Meep
• Alpha Centauran

Worldbuilding

• An Alpha Centauran and a Meep appear within the art gallery.
• The Mona Lisa was among the artworks that survived World War V.
• The Doctor mentions Damien Hirst, Jackson Pollock and King Francis. He also quotes Elvis Presley.
• Rose mentions Parc Asterix, Sister Wendy and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

Notes

Art Attack title card.

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Continuity

• Rose mentions her friend Shareen, (TV: The End of the World, The Unquiet Dead, Aliens of London) and their school trip to France. (PROSE: Meet Rose)
• The Doctor says that he saw Leonardo da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa. He refers to the woman as not being able to sit still and points out that she didn't have eyebrows. (TV: City of Death)