In the Can (comic story)

In the Can
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond
Main enemy:	Hebex and Eizcam
Main setting:	Earth 2010
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Magazines]]
Editor:	Moray Laing
Writer:	Eddie Robson
Artist:	John Ross
Colourist:	Alan Craddock
Release details
Release number:	186
Format:	Comic - 1 parts (4 pages)

Summary

Prime Soup is being advertised on Television across the country. Kids love it. Just as Katy and her Dad are about to open a tin fresh back from the shopping the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond burst in through a window, but they are too late to stop the can being opened. A huge soup creature erupts but the Doctor manages to stop it in its tracks by thickening it up with flour. A batch of the cans have been recalled from the company which the Doctor has been investigating because of its use of subliminal messages in the adverts. The Doctor and Amy leave - taking the soup can with him. Shortly afterwards back at the factory all 57 cans from the missing batch have been returned to the relief of the two aliens (Hebex and Eizcam) who are planning an invasion. When they open the cans to find out how their creatures have responded to high compression, they open a can booby-trapped by the Doctor. The aliens are knocked out long enough to be tied up and the incubation tank for their creatures (which should have been released at a later stage of their plan) is disabled. The aliens will be taken to the galactic authorities while Amy waits for the Doctor to make some “awful soup-related pun” – but he’s not sure he CAN!

Characters

• The Doctor
• Amy Pond
• Hebex and Eizcam

References

• The 57 cans released early in the plan to invade Earth with soup creatures is a reference to Heinz’s 57 varieties for which the company became associated with.
• The soup brand ‘Prime Soup’ is probably a reference to ‘primeval soup’ the biological mix from which life on Earth sprang.

Notes

• The DWAM comic strip adventures were very much aimed at a younger audience and the artwork and colours was bold and bright reflecting the tone of the magazine.
• Self contained one part stories were the norm.

Original print details

• Publication with page count and closing captions

1. DWA Issue 186 (4 pages) NEXT WEEK – The Doctor and Amy face danger in the snow!

• No reprints to date.

Continuity

to be added

External Links

• The official BBC Magazine site with cover gallery and news of the latest available issue.