Pencil Pusher (comic story)

Pencil Pusher (comic story)

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Pencil Pusher
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond
Main enemy:	Graphon Narmolis
Main setting:	Earth 21st century
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Magazines]]
Editor:	Moray Laing
Writer:	Trevor Baxendale
Artist:	John Ross
Colourist:	Alan Craddock
Release details
Release number:	193
Format:	Comic - 1 parts (4 pages)

Pencil Pusher was a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip that featured the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond.

Summary

The night before school, Janie manages to complete her homework on the solar system - four hundred words, in record time, despite arguing with her brother over a cool pencil she has found. The following day at school her teacher is very impressed with the amount of detail in her homework, in spite of references to the planet Speldron and it being done in pencil. However class is interrupted by the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond, using psychic paper to pass themselves off as 'school inspectors'. When the Doctor takes Janie’s pencil, she goes wild but is pacified by the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. Using the pencil on the psychic paper, the sign of the Shape Thieves from the planet Speldron is revealed and the pencil identified as Graphon Narmolis, a shape shifter specialising in taking the form of inanimate objects to take control over other life forms with psychic powers. The Doctor's mind, however, is too powerful, and in the Doctor's hands Graphon Narmolis is powerless. With the influence over her broken, Janie returns to her normal self as if waking from a dream.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Amy Pond
• Janie

References

• The Doctor uses his psychic paper to pass himself and Amy off as school inspectors and to pick up the psychic energy identifying Graphon Narmolis.

Notes

• The DWA comic strip adventures were very much aimed at a younger audience and the artwork and colours were 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 192 (4 pages) NEXT WEEK – The Doctor and Amy meet the Cleverest King

• No reprints to date.

Continuity

• Graphon Narmolis is on the Shadow Proclamation's most wanted list.