Untitled (FCBD2024 comic story)

Untitled
Doctor:	Fifteenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Ruby Sunday
Main enemy:	Dick Turpin
Main setting:	York Castle, Yorkshire, 7 April 1739
Key crew
Publisher:	Titan Publishing
Editor:	Jake Devine
Writer:	Dan Watters
Artist:	Kelsey Ramsay
Colourist:	Valentina Bianconi
Letterer:	Richard Starkings
Release details
Printed in:	Free Comic Book Day 2024
Release date:	4 May 2024
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An untitled story was published in Free Comic Book Day 2024.

It served as issue 0 of Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor, serving as the Titan Comics debut of the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday.

Publisher’s summary

Join the Fifteenth Doctor in a new comic book adventure!

With his courageous companion, Ruby, the Doctor is back in the TARDIS for a whole new era of time-traveling tales. But fearsome foes await...

Landing ahead of the Fifteenth Doctor's debut comic series!

Plot

The Doctor and Ruby hear a sound whilst the TARDIS travels through the Time Vortex. The Doctor deduces it was must be terribly dangerous. Ruby correctly guesses that means they’re going to follow it.

At York Castle on 7 April 1739, Dick Turpin is being led to his execution, however he has been given a gift from a god who came down from the heavens.

The Doctor follows the trail of the noise, leading the TARDIS to Skaro, Metebelis III, Krop Tor, the Library and Trenzalore.

Dick escapes his captors by brandishing a metal glove which shoots energy, bragging that he has been “upgraded”.

The Doctor realises someone is trying to scare him by leading him to these places. The TARDIS lands and Ruby realises the sound has stopped, which the Doctor says is because they’ve arrived where it was leading them - Yorkshire. They exit into the midst of Dick’s escape. Recognising his weapon as a Cyberblaster, the Doctor takes the horse of an incapacitated guard to pursue him. Dick recognised him as he closes in, claiming his god told him the Doctor would come. The Doctor disarms his glove with the sonic screwdriver, leading to it backfiring and throwing Dick from his horse.

The Doctor retrieves the Cyber-technology from Dick, however finds Ruby has been mistaken from an accomplice of Dick and taken captive by guards. He uses the psychic paper to convince them she is royalty travelling undercover and they release her.

Dick is taken to be executed again and sees his god among the crowd, laughing at him. He screams at this betrayal and his scream is collected by the god in a bottle, remarking on it being a “unique vintage”.

The Doctor and Ruby return to the TARDIS, with the Doctor realising the scream was the sound they heard. He studies the glove and realises someone has programmed it with coordinates. Ruby suggests it’s a trap, which he agrees but resolves that the kind of person who makes a song and dance like this is never as scary as they want you to think.

Characters

• Fifteenth Doctor
• Ruby Sunday
• Dick Turpin
• Scream Sommelier

Worldbuilding

to be added

Notes

• Metebelis III is written as "Metebelis 3".
• The Beast is depicted without a broken horn.
• The Doctor mistakenly calls Dick Turpin a 17th century highwayman. 1739 is in the 18th century.

Continuity

• The Doctor is wearing his trenchcoat outfit and Ruby is wearing her Christmas Day outfit, both originating from TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"].
• The Doctor follows a sound through the Time Vortex to various places from the darkest moments in his life. The locations depicted include: Skaro, which appears as it did most recently in TV: The Magician's Apprentice ^[+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"] / The Witch's Familiar ^[+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"], the caption referring to the Fourth Doctor having witnessed the creation of the Daleks in TV: Genesis of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"]; Metebelis 3, where the Third Doctor stole a crystal in TV: The Green Death ^[+]Loading...["The Green Death (TV story)"] and later fought the Eight Legs in TV: Planet of the Spiders ^[+]Loading...["Planet of the Spiders (TV story)"]; Krop Tor, where the Tenth Doctor encountered "what he's very definitely sure wasn't the devil himself probably" in TV: The Impossible Planet ^[+]Loading...["The Impossible Planet (TV story)"] / The Satan Pit ^[+]Loading...["The Satan Pit (TV story)"]; The Library, where the Tenth Doctor met River Song before watching her die in TV: Silence in the Library ^[+]Loading...["Silence in the Library (TV story)"] / Forest of the Dead ^[+]Loading...["Forest of the Dead (TV story)"]; and Trenzalore, the planet where the Eleventh Doctor was confronted with his own tomb in TV: The Name of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"], only to avert his death on the same planet in TV: The Time of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"].
• The Doctor tells Ruby that he can't interfere with history, as first mentioned in TV: The Aztecs ^[+]Loading...["The Aztecs (TV story)"].

External links

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