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* [[DWM 604]]: (6 pages): Next Issue: ''A Grim Fairy Tale'' | * [[DWM 604]]: (6 pages): Next Issue: ''A Grim Fairy Tale'' | ||
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Revision as of 18:03, 20 June 2024
The Hans of Fear was the two hundred and ninth comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine by Panini Magazines and was written by Alan Barnes. It starred the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday.
Plot
Part One: The Hans of Fear
In 19th-century Copenhagen, a young boy named Erik spots what appear to be floating snowflakes in midair that he nicknames "frost bees" while walking with his mother, but she tells him off for seeing things as it is a midsummer's day. However, a passerby notices a whirlwind approaching from the north that freezes everything it touches, including the sea itself. A nearby sailor spots something else in the blizzard too - a blue box.
On cue, the Doctor's TARDIS skids across the ice and smashes into the side of the sailor's boat. The Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday exit, ready for a wild night of partying with Scandinavia's biggest stars, but are forced to change their plans when they notice the time period. Realising that the townsfolk are whispering "Snedronningen" at them, the Doctor and Ruby climb off the ice and onto the land to find a man and his bodyguards pushing through the crowd to see them. The Doctor is delighted to see him too, as he is the famous fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen. However, he has no time to get acquainted as Hans' bodyguards Thomas and Kwame restrain him and Ruby, allowing Hans to check if Ruby is Snedronningen or not. He looks into her eyes and confirms that she is nothing to be afraid of. Hans apologises and explains that Snedronningen is a magical being capable of summoning an ice storm in June, as the Doctor examines the frost bees, nicknaming them "Shimmerglisten", and states that the polar cyclone came through the same fissure in the Time Vortex that the TARDIS was pulled through.
As the cyclone approaches land, however, the Doctor notices a figure at the eye of the storm: Snedronningen herself, a floating, pale blue-costumed ice queen, holding a sceptre and a book. She proclaims to have come for Hans, and when Thomas and Kwame protect him, she easily freezes them to death with her frost bees and shatters their bodies. As the Doctor leaps into action, Erik explains that Snedronningen is taken directly from Hans' fairy tales, which she describes as "a betrayal". As compensation, she has come to kill his child, wrongly believing it to be Erik. Ruby jumps in front to protect him, but Snedronningen attacks her with her beam of ice anyway, as the Doctor cries out to her.
Part Two: A Grim Fairy Tale
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Characters
Worldbuilding
- The Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday were attempting to visit the Scandi Superclub, which includes Avicii, Loreen and Måns Zelmerlöw in the Arctic Circle.
- Hans Christian Andersen's works include Thumbelina, The Red Shoes and The Ugly Duckling, although the Doctor gave him the idea for The Emperor's New Clothes.
- Hans states that Snedronningen hails from the "Stellatundra".
Notes
- This story's title is a reference to TV: The Hand of Fear [+]Loading...["The Hand of Fear (TV story)"].
- Like with COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"] and Mancopolis [+]Loading...["Mancopolis (comic story)"] before it, this story was not named in DWM 604 to spoil the surprise of its historical figure. It was referred to as "A brand-new comic strip" on the issue's spine and simply "Comic Strip" in the contents, with the title only being revealed when Hans Christian Andersen first appears on page 3.
Original print details
(Publication with page count and closing captions)
- DWM 604: (6 pages): Next Issue: A Grim Fairy Tale
- DWM 605: (6 pages): Next Issue: Soldiers of Misfortune
Continuity
- The Fifteenth Doctor refers to the Advance on Reykjavik, which was mentioned in TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"] and depicted in AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane [+]Loading...["The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)"] and PROSE: Under Reykjavik [+]Loading...["Under Reykjavik (short story)"].
- The Doctor claims to have given Hans Christian Andersen the idea for the story, The Emperor's New Clothes, as the First Doctor previously claimed in TV: "Conspiracy".
- The Doctor notes that the frost bees are not the same type of snow that he and Ruby Sunday had encountered on previous occasions, starting in TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"].
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