The Many Lives of Doctor Who
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The Many Lives of Doctor Who was solicited as "Issue 0"[1][2][3][4] or "Volume 0"[1][5][6][7][8][9] of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor, published on September 26 2018.[3][10][9][11][nb 1]
Publisher's summary
"That's the trouble with regeneration... You never quite know what you're going to get!" - The Doctor.
The ultimate celebration of Doctor Who, for fans old and new!
As the Doctor regenerates into their Thirteenth incarnation, they flash back across their many lives and many adventures - revealing brand-new stories from every era and face of the Doctor to date!
Written by Richard Dinnick (The Twelfth Doctor) and illustrated by a fantastic selection of mind-blowing artists, this is the perfect introduction to Doctor Who for new readers, and the ultimate celebration of the series for long-term fans!
Not just an ideal starting point for the era of the Thirteenth Doctor, as played by Jodie Whittaker, this collection is also an amazing doorway into a whole universe of Doctor Who comic book adventures!
Doctor Who: Thirteenth Doctor #0 is 100% all-new comic strip material!
Stories
Notes
- This bumper issue of stories served as "Issue 0" of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor. It can also be considered a graphic novel volume of the series given it is a collection of stories relating to the run and its additional branding as "Volume 0". Regardless of whether it is an issue or volume, it is included under The Thirteenth Doctor section in Titan Comics' Reader's Guide.
- The quote in the publisher's summary is from the Fifth Doctor, during part one of Castrovalva.
- This comic was exclusively announced by Entertainment Weekly, with first look images, on 28 June 2018.[12]
- Titan Comics' Doctor Who editor Andrew James stated to Richard Dinnick that though Titan was releasing The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor, there was "a gap before Jody [Houser] start[ed] the main line of 13th Doctor ongoing" and that "What we’d like to do is a multi-Doctor big event thing to bring everyone into the range".[13]
- The comic "started life" as The 13 Doctors, according to Dinnick, before "we realised there were 14 if not 15 in there; we’ve not got Cushing but we have got War. We haven’t done two Tennant stories – even though apparently he’s two Doctors!"[13]
- It was Jessica Burton who came up with the preamble of The Many Lives of... with the Doctor Who logo serving to finish the rest of the title, according to Richard Dinnick.[13] In Titan Comics' Reader's Guide, this comic is simply titled as The Many Lives Of.
- Richard Dinnick was instructed not to make a multi-Doctor story as per Supremacy of the Cybermen or The Four Doctors, but instead, as he said, "standalone stories to show the Doctors in their era, in their comfort zone with their companions doing a story that was reflective of their era". The other requirement "was not to have too much baggage" in terms of continuity references. He "liked [that] because [he]’d done two quite continuity-heavy stories for [the] 12th Doctor and a standalone that wasn’t". Though he "did put some Easter eggs in for fans".[13]
- Richard Dinnick considers The Many Lives of Doctor Who "in [his] mind at least" to be the 55th anniversary special, as "Every Doctor is in it". However, he does concede "we don’t see Daleks or Cybermen or Sontarans etc", but does point out Harvest of the Daleks is of course about the Daleks.[13]
- Dinnick "want[ed] to put an element of 13 in each story – for example there’s a story about some aliens that are based on the 13th element of the periodic table", referencing Virtually Indestructible.[13]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The credits page within The Many Lives of Doctor Who states itself to be 'DOCTOR WHO: THE THIRTEENTH DOCTOR Volume 0/#0", and also "VOLUME 0".
- ↑ The Many Lives of Doctor Who is referred to as "Doctor Who: Thirteenth Doctor #0" in its product description on the back of the physical release and last page of the eBook.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #0 page at titan-comics.com.
- ↑ Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #0: The Many Lives of Doctor Who (Kindle & comiXology) page at Amazon.com.
- ↑ The design of the comic's physical release is consistent with the other Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor graphic novels, and is labelled at the top of the spine as "0".
- ↑ https://x.com/ComicsTitan/status/1047527951473041409
- ↑ Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Vol. 0: The Many Lives of Doctor Who at penguinrandomhouse.com.
- ↑ Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Vol. 0: The Many Lives of Doctor Who (Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor) (Paperback) page at Amazon.com.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Vol. 0: The Many Lives of Doctor Who at goodreads.com
- ↑ Publication date of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #0: The Many Lives of Doctor Who (Kindle & comiXology) page at Amazon.com.
- ↑ REVIEW: Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #0 – The Many Lives of Doctor Who from Blogtor Who.
- ↑ Doctor Who comic first look: Jodie Whittaker's time traveler to relive previously unseen adventures from Entertainment Weekly.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 Interview: Author Richard Dinnick (The Many Lives of Doctor Who) from Sci-Fi Bulletin.
- ↑ Some sites list the release date as being 9 October 2018, such as Penguin Random House, Amazon, on the Paperback listing page, and Hudson Booksellers. Indeed, the credits page of The Many Lives of Doctor Who dates its first printing to October 2018. However, these are not consistent with the Entertainment Weekly article stating it was due for release in September, which the other sites footnoted correlate.
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