The Soul Garden (comic story)

The Soul Garden
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Bill Potts
Main setting:	The Garden, Xanadu, Titan
Release details
Printed in:	DWM 512-
Release date:	4 May 2017-
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The Soul Garden was a comic published in Doctor Who Magazine in 2017. It was notably the first story in the magazine to feature Bill Potts as a travelling companion to the Twelfth Doctor. It was, furthermore, the first mutli-part story to feature Potts.

Summary

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Characters

• Twelfth Doctor
• Bill Potts
• First Mate Sandi Costello
• Rudy Zoom
• Captain Bernard O'Neill
• Lady Takashi
• The Keeper

References

• Saturn is Bill's favorite planet.
• Titan is a moon of Saturn, and is usually surrounded by methane clouds. Every few thousand years, if one is situated in the right spot, Saturn can barely be seen from the moon.
• Titan's atmosphere is 50% denser than Earth's, but its gravity is only 14% as strong. This allows people present on the planet to swim through the air.
• The Doctor and Bill's "swim" is disrupted by the passing of a ship known as The Beagle, and they are brought on-board. The ship is two weeks out of Shackleton Spaceport. The ship has been mapping the continent of Xanadu after Lady Takashi had a premonition in a dream of a friendly alien consciousness calling from the moon.
• The Beagle executes a Buoyancy Conversion, turning the land cruiser into a water vehicle. The rivers of Titan are filled not with water, but with pure liquid methane.
• Sandi Costello continuously curses in the name of Ra.
• Rudy designates the landmass which they discover the Zoomdome.
• The Doctor and Bill take off their Atmospheric density jackets, as The Garden is too warm for them. Rudy suggests that they should have invested in a Zoomsuit, which can keep them "warmer than Mercury or cooler than Miles Davis.
• Upon investigating the Garden, the Doctor discovers that the only thing dead inside the dome two trees directly in its centre.

Notes

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Continuity

• Bill and the Doctor wear atmospheric density jackets, as the Doctor insists that they are more efficient and comfortable than any space suit. The First Doctor and Ian Chesterton had previously worn them on Vortis. (TV: The Web Planet)
• The Doctor claims that the jackets are built out of an atmospheric converter (TV: The Poison Sky) and a comfy suit.
• While gliding on the low-gravity Titan, Bill gleefully notes that travelling with the Doctor isn't always "sea monsters in the Thames and killer Emoji robots." (TV: Thin Ice, Smile)
• The Doctor calls the passing humans, whose ship has disrupted Titan's atmosphere, "pudding-brains". (TV: Deep Breath, Robot of Sherwood, Face the Raven, GAME: The Saviour of Time)
• Under her atmospheric density jacket, Bill wears the same shirt that she had previously on Gliese 581 D. (TV: Smile)