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Revision as of 19:41, 8 November 2012
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)
