The Wolves of Winter (comic story)

The Wolves of Winter
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Bill
Main enemy:	The Flood, Haemovore, Fenric
Main setting:	North Atlantic Ocean, 9th century
Key crew
Editor:	Andrew James
Writer:	Richard Dinnick
Cover by:	Claudia Ianniciello
Designer:	Andrew Leung
Artist:	Brian Williamson
Colourist:	Hi-Fi
Letterer:	Richard Starkings and Jimmy Betancourt
Release details
Printed in:	12DY3 5-7
Release date:	5 July - 27 September 2017
Traded in:	Time Trials: The Wolves of Winter
Format:	Comic - 3 parts
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The Wolves of Winter was the sixteenth story of the Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic series, published in 2017. The story featured Bill Potts' first appearance in the ongoing Twelfth Doctor comic series, even though it was published only a few days after she left the Doctor in The Doctor Falls. It featured the return of two Martian species from Doctor Who - the Ice Warriors and the Flood.

Summary

In Bill's first comic adventure, the TARDIS crashes into the heart of a Viking camp! But this is no interactive history lesson, and it seems that a terrifying alien force has taken hold over the icy kingdom. As the snow melts, the Doctor realises that he is about to face an unwelcome face from the past...

Plot

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Characters

Main story

• Twelfth Doctor
• Bill Potts
• Sundvik
• Ingiga
• Grimvald
• Halfdan
• Ingigeror Ragnavald
• Torkal
• Asmund
• Sskoll
• Haathi
• Ancient One

Flashback

• Seventh Doctor
• Ace

References

• The Doctor says Henry III kept a polar bear at the tower. The Doctor caused a stir when he let it out for a swim in the Thames.
• Odin's ravens are called Hugin and Munin.

Notes

• This story is a rare example of using the dating system of CE (Common Era) over AD (anno domini or "In the year of our Lord")
• Bill remarks how the Vikings do not have horns. This is an in-joke reference to criticism levelled at The Girl Who Died, which featured stereotypical (and historically inaccurate) horn-wearing Vikings. The Vikings seen in this story are depicted closer to how they appear in the popular TV series Vikings.
• Bill and the Doctor previously encountered the Ice Warriors in the TV episode, Empress of Mars, which was clearly the former's first encounter with them. Her recognition of them in the second issue places this story some point after that episode.
• This story acts as a prequel to both The Curse of Fenric and The Waters of Mars though both occur in the Doctor's personal past.

Continuity

• The Doctor tells Bill that he once fought a werewolf with the Koh-i-Noor. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
• The Doctor laments "Vikings. Again!" He also finds himself mistaken for Odin again. (TV: The Girl Who Died)
• The Ice Warriors carry the Flood. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
• Bill recognises the Ice Warriors. She had described them as being like The Vikings. (TV: Empress of Mars)
• The Doctor tells Sskoll that he is a friend of Grand Marshal Skaldak. (TV: Cold War)
• The Doctor tells the Vikings that Ragnarok was "a long time ago" and that "they made [him] play the spoons". (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
• Putting on a spacesuit with the Doctor again, Bill is pleased that she does not have to pay for oxygen. (TV: Oxygen)
• The Doctor recognises the names of the "Asmund, Grimvald, Torkal, Halfdan. Brave Viking warriors." as he comes into contact with a messenger of Fenric. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
• The Doctor encounters the Ancient One again. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)

External links

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