The Fractures (comic story)

The Fractures
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Clara
Featuring:	Kate
Main enemy:	Fractures
Main setting:	London, 2014
Key crew
Publisher:	Titan Comics
Editor:	Andrew James
Writer:	Robbie Morrison
Cover by:	Blair Shedd (regular)
Designer:	Rob Farmer
Artist:	Brian Williamson
Colourist:	Hi-Fi
Letterer:	Richard Starkings Jimmy Betancourt
Release details
Printed in:	12D 6-8
Release date:	18 March - 3 June 2015
Cover date:	April 2015 - June 2015
Reprinted in:	DWCT 6, DWCT 7, DWCT 8
Traded in:	Fractures
Format:	Comic
Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor
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The Fractures was the third story of the Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic story series published in 2015.

Summary

Molly's father was killed in a terrible accident. UNIT scientist John Foster suffered the same fate. But are they really gone? Both play a part in the universe-hopping new arc! The Doctor and Clara race against time to both stop a dreaded new peril – the Fractures – in a bid to stop reality unravelling around them.

Plot

Part one

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Part two

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Part three

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Characters

• Twelfth Doctor
• Clara Oswald
• Kate Stewart
• Paul Foster
• Hannah Foster
• Lisa Foster
• Molly Foster

References

• Captain van Volk calls the Doctor the Oncoming Storm.
• The Doctor says he's old enough to be Kate's great-great-great-great-great grandfather, times ten. Kate retorts that it's nothing compared to the size of his ego.
• Clara defends the size of her flat by saying she lives on second-year teacher's wages.
• Osgood and some of her colleagues intend to see Interstellar.
• Clara used to drive a Mini.
• Rassilon cubes were devised by Rassilon as a form of incarceration. The Doctor was once locked in one and it took him six months to break free. Kate calls it a Rubik's cube.
• Amongst the Doctor's items in the TARDIS is the Ghostbusters-esque device from TV: The Caretaker.
• The Doctor has spare sonic screwdrivers and gives one to Clara.
• The Doctor calls Kate "Brigadier", alluding to her late father.

Notes

• The Doctor oddly doesn't mention the Battle of Canary Wharf or the Reality Bomb to the Fractures. Unlike Paul Foster, these were genuine threats to reality.
• Hinchcliffe Avenue in Schoreditch is likely a reference to Doctor Who producer Philip Hinchcliffe.
• The Doctor has a toy of Mrs. Tinkle from AAAGH! comic strips.

Original print details

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Continuity

• The Doctor refers to humanity as "pudding brains". (TV: Deep Breath et al)
• Lisa references the Doctor serving as Coal Hill School's caretaker. (TV: The Caretaker)
• The Doctor wears 3D glasses. (TV: Army of Ghosts)
• Clara jokes that none of her pupils are giving her requests for extra homework. (TV: The Caretaker)
• Potter remarks that Osgood is away and that she'd be devastated at missing the Doctor, especially since she replaced her scarf with a bow tie. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, Death in Heaven)
• The Doctor uses a strand of Clara's hair for a scientific test. (TV: Deep Breath)
• Paul Foster is able to travel from his universe into this one because he reverse-engineered the gate destroyed during the Battle of London in 2007. (TV: Army of Ghosts, Doomsday)
• Clara is surprised Hannah knows about her relationship with Danny Pink. She learnt it in playground gossip from Lisa. (TV: The Caretaker, In the Forest of the Night)
• The Doctor saves Clara and the Fosters from a crashing bus by flying the TARDIS alongside the doors and having them jump in. The Tenth Doctor pulled off a similar feat to save Donna Noble. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
• The Doctor gives Kate a Shreeker sonic cannon, which he says he got from Brooklyn. (COMIC: Echo)
• The Doctor continues to be apprehensive about hugging. (TV: Deep Breath, Listen)