Timeslip (comic story)

Timeslip
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fourth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	K9 Mark II
Main enemy:	Unknown
Main setting:	The TARDIS
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Marvel Comics]]
Editor:	Dez Skinn
Writer:	Dez Skinn Paul Neary
Artist:	Paul Neary
Release details
Release number:	3
Format:	Comic - 2 parts (8 pages)

Summary

The Doctor and K-9 drift into contact with an entity hanging in space that feeds on time. As time begins to move backwards, K-9 reverts to the components in which he was made and the Doctor moves back through his regenerations to the point where he first throws the switch to bring life to the TARDIS. As the power reversal switches the power off, the entity weakens and time moves forward enough to throw the switch on, then back off, then on and so on. Each time the switch is changed the entity experiences indigestion and eventually weaken. As time rolls forward once again all that is left of the entity is a puddle on the TARDIS floor.

Characters

• Unknown Entity (It exists.)

Like a giant jellyfish drifting in space and feeding on time energy, the entity (one of many) is a basic and primitive life form that feeds at the Galactic Rim on the Great Rifts of Time.

Original Print Details (Publication with page count and closing captions)

1. DWM Issue 17 (4 pages) Next Week: Bid Time Return
2. DWM Issue 18 (4 pages) Next Week: The Star Beast

Reprints

1. Doctor Who Classic Comics Issue 27 reprinted in colour in this last issue of the title.
2. The Tides of Time (Graphic Novel) a series of graphic novels (published in 2004), reprinting cleaned up comic strips covering strips from Doctor Who Magazine. Reprinted as original, in black and white, with closing captions.

Notes

• Announced in the previous issue of Doctor Who Weekly as Time Trap
• This is the first comic strip story to feature another depiction of the Doctor other than the current Fourth incarnation, and the first appearance in the comic strip of K-9.
• The full page regression of the Doctor through his earlier selves was used as the basis of a colouring competition in DWM Issue 24.
• The illustrations of early Doctors may seem familiar having been inspired by stock photos from the BBC.

References

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Continuity

• Reference is made to the Randomiser being operative and this story is set after Romana has left the Doctor’s travels.

External Links

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