The Cruel Sea (comic story)

The Cruel Sea
Doctor:	Ninth Doctor
Companion(s):	Rose
Main enemy:	The sea
Main setting:	Mars, the 22nd century
Key crew
Editor:	Clayton Hickman
Writer:	Robert Shearman
Penciller:	Mike Collins
Inker:	David A Roach
Colourist:	James Offredi
Letterer:	Roger Langridge
Release details
Printed in:	Doctor Who Magazine 359 - 362
Release date:	21 July - 13 October 2005
Cover date:	17 August - 9 November 2005
Traded in:	The Cruel Sea
Format:	Comic - 4 parts
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The Cruel Sea was a Doctor Who Magazine comic story featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler.

Summary

It's the 22nd century. Mars has been cleaned up, dusted off, and turned into a leisure planet. The rich sail the artificial seas and drink cocktails. But...the sea is hungry... The Doctor has once again landed himself and his companion in the middle of an intergalactic dispute... and a wedding with very disturbed guests.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Ninth Doctor
• Rose Tyler
• Ex-Wife 2
• Alvar Chambers
• Susannah Chambers
• Susannah Tyler
• Ex-Wife 7
• Vikki
• Latimer
• Godwin
• The sea

References

to be added

Notes

• Part 2 has a truncated adaptation of the end of the television story Rose, where Rose stays behind when the Doctor does not immediately return to her in a dream world. The presence of Mickey Smith in this adaptation is implied, but his facial features are not directly seen in the story.

Continuity

• When looking at himself in the red sea, the Doctor shouts, "Fantastic". (TV: Rose, Dalek)
• The Doctor previously referred to himself as a doctor of "practically everything" during his third (TV: Spearhead from Space) and fifth (TV: Four to Doomsday) incarnations. He would do so again during his tenth incarnation. (TV: Utopia)
• The Doctor would later return to Mars in his next incarnation and find another malicious water based entity, namely the Flood. (TV: The Waters of Mars)