The Comfort of the Good (comic story)

The Comfort of the Good
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Alice, Jones, ARC
Main enemy:	Talent Scout
Main setting:	London, 2015
Key crew
Publisher:	Titan Comics
Editor:	Andrew James
Writer:	Al Ewing Rob Williams
Cover by:	Boo Cook (regular, part 1), Simon Fraser / Boo Cook / AJ (regular, part 2), Marc Ellerby (cover c, part 2)
Designer:	Rob Farmer
Artist:	Simon Fraser
Colourist:	Gary Caldwell
Letterer:	Richard Starkings Jimmy Betancourt
Release details
Printed in:	Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #14-15
Release date:	8 July - 12 August 2015
Cover date:	August - September 2015
Format:	Comic - 2 parts
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The Comfort of the Good was the eleventh story of the Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor comic strip series published in 2015, and the two-part finale to the first year of the series. It saw the departures of John Jones and ARC, and wound up the SERVEYOUinc storyline.

Summary

• Series co-writers Al Ewing and Rob Williams team up for an unmissable mini-epic, as a year's worth of stories come to a head!
• Can the Doctor save his new friends from their time-twisting fates?
• Will Alice find peace – or be marooned far from Earth?!
• Will ARC finally discover the truth about itself – or be reduced to atoms?!
• Will Jones fulfill his cosmic rock god destiny – or die among the stars?!
• And who will be left to join the Doctor as we head into Year Two?!

Plot

Part one

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Part two

to be added

Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Alice Obiefune
• John Jones
• ARC
• Talent Scout
• Ada Obiefune

References

• Several references are made to The Snowman. Jones is shown looking through his memory attic, referencing David Bowie's video introduction to the film. Jones is also depicted flying in the sky in his pyjamas with a cloud mass resembling the titular flying snowman.
• Talent Scout takes on the appearance of The Doctor's mother.

Notes

• This was the second Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor two-parter released under the same title.
• This was the last story of Year One.

Original print details

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor remembers being thrown out of the TARDIS after it was hit by a paradox, and reveals that the TARDIS intentionally threw him out as a warning shot. (COMIC: Four Dimensions)
• Jones references going to Ancient Rome and Mississippi and inventing Xavi Moonburst. (COMIC: Conversion, What He Wants, The Other Doctor)
• The mysterious Time Lord stalking the Doctor is revealed to now be in charge of the Doctor's TARDIS, and the Doctor believes her to be his mother. (COMIC: After Life) It turned out to be the Talent Scout, masquerading as the Doctor's mother.
• The Doctor remembers Alice has a link to the TARDIS psychic circuits from when the Talent Scout last tried to stow away on the TARDIS. (COMIC: Four Dimensions)
• The Doctor, Alice, and Jones return to the Dog & Duck so Jones can resume his music career and Alice can see her mother as a young woman. (COMIC: What He Wants...)