Gangland (comic story)

Gangland
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Clara
Featuring:	Judoon
Main enemy:	Cybock Imperium
Main setting:	Janizzar 1963; Las Vegas, 1964
Key crew
Publisher:	Titan Comics
Editor:	Andrew James
Writer:	Robbie Morrison
Designer:	Rob Farmer
Artist:	Brian Williamson, Mariano Laclaustra
Colourist:	Hi-Fi
Letterer:	Richard Starkings, Jimmy Betancourt
Release details
Printed in:	12D 9-10
Release date:	1 July - 29 July 2015
Cover date:	July - August 2015
Reprinted in:	DWCT 2.2, DWCT 2.3
Traded in:	Fractures
Format:	Comic
Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor
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Gangland was the fourth story of the Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic story series published in 2015.

Summary

A brand new story begins, as the Doctor and Clara are forced to ally with gangsters on the Vegas strip to combat an even more terrifying foe!

Will the Doctor's morals prove as alien as the unearthly invaders — or can he triumph without compromise... in Gangland?

Plot

Part one

to be added

Part two

to be added

Characters

• Twelfth Doctor
• Clara Oswald
• Rassilon
• Sonny Lawson
• Johnny Dragotta
• Mikey Nero
• Frank Seneca
• Dino Martinelli
• Solly Dancer
• Kronos

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor is an excellent gambler, being able to pick the most likely outcome out of random chance.

Clara Oswald

• Clara says her dad is a big fan of boxing, especially Sonny Lawson.

Rassilon

• Rassilon's Alliance of Races includes Zygons, Judoon, Hath, Vigil, Sontarans, Silurians and Ice Warriors.
• The Time-Gun of Rassilon is contained on Janizzar.
• Rassilon's roulette is not as commonly known as Russian roulette.
• The Doctor says the incident between Rassilon and Count D'if with the Time-Gun was the first time the Time Lords feared Rassilon, but not the last.

Sonny Lawson

• The Doctor thinks Sonny could make a major difference to the civil rights movement.

References to the real world

• One of the agents remembers seeing giant ants in the film Them! as a kid.
• Sonny mentions Frank Sinatra.

Notes

• The Wolf Pack act as an analogy to the real-world Rat Pack.

Original print details

to be added

Continuity

• Rassilon formed the Alliance of Races following the Hyperion War. (COMIC: Terrorformer)
• Clara describes the 60s as the era of flower power, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and love and peace. The Eleventh Doctor described it in a similar way. (AUDIO: Hunters of Earth)
• The Doctor refers to the gamblers as "pudding-heads". (TV: Deep Breath et al.)
• Clara recalls that the Doctor has encountered the Daleks, Cybermen, the Fractures and Hyperions before. (TV: Into the Dalek, Nightmare in Silver, COMIC: The Fractures, Terrorformer) She also remembers meeting the Ice Warriors. (TV: Cold War)
• Clara says the Doctor has gambled with her life many times. (TV: Face the Raven)
• Sonny suspects the Doctor is Scottish. (TV: Deep Breath et al.)
• Clara uses the psychic paper. (TV: The End of the World et al.)
• One of the agents talks about the Roswell crash, and suspects the government locked up aliens. (TV: Dreamland)