Attack of the GateBots! (comic story)

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Attack of the GateBots! was a Doctor Who Adventures comic story featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond.

Summary

The Eleventh Doctor is drawn to a shop selling gadgets at a spaceport departure lounge. Amy is thinking of where the Doctor can take her as a reward for saving the Ekthelios from becoming part of the Croidun Expansion (it was her idea to use nail varnish!). She is apprehended by the GateBots, robot ticket inspectors. After Amy is scanned and found not to be on any flight lists, an Execution Pod is activated and she is held in a soundproof holding pod and expected to answer a Customer Questionaire requiring a 100% correct answer rate to avoid execution.

The Doctor intervenes but is unable to secure her release even by invoking ancient Ekthelios Identity laws – because he is unable to verify his own identity. The GateBots are also immune to the influence of the Doctor's psychic paper, his library card is still out of date and his membership card for the Thaarg Appreciation Society is not recognised in this quadrant.

Chased around the departure area, the Doctor sees copies of the Daily Eon newspaper proclaiming Amy and himself national heroes and being apprehended at the gadget show. He surrenders after modifying some equipment which the GateBot is persuaded to view. This transmits proof of their heroic identities around the spaceport.

Amy is saved and a pardon with an apology from the Central Governors of Ekthelios is offered, as well as a special freedom of the planet ceremony. Offering to make their own way the Doctor and Amy return to the TARDIS and make a quick escape. The Doctor says that he is not really one for fuss!

Characters

Worldbuilding

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Notes

  • The DWA comic strip adventures were 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.
  • The reference to the Thaarg Appreciation Society is a nod to the long established UK comic title "2000AD" delivered to Earth by the Mighty Thaarg.
  • The TARDIS in flight uses the long-established "VWORP VWORP" sound lettering.

Original print details

Publication with page count and closing captions
  1. DWA 175 (4 pages) NEXT WEEK – Trouble on the planet Thelka

Continuity

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DWA Eleventh Doctor comic stories
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First Foot First • Random History • The Salt Solution • Rory's Story • Sub-species • Quite Interesting • Earworm • If You Go Down to the Woods Today • Ghost World • Power of the Mykuootni • Mine, All Mine! • Golden Slumbers • Sound Bytes • Chasing Rainbows • Pier Head From Space • The Evergreen Death • The Rage • The Peace Strike • Extinction Event • Hot Stuff! • The Very Cool Bow Tie! • Reality Cheque • Road Rage • The King and the Tripeberry • Danger Flight • Dinosaurs in New York! • Screamers! • Grow Your Own • The Golesterkol Collection • Missing in Action • Peril on the Sea • Rock Quasar and the Mudslugs of Gurrn • Dino World • The Upper Deck • The Moon of Lost Hope • Vacuum Packed • Funny Phone Call! • The Deadly Mutant • The Mutant Turnip • The Secret Star Trail • Agent 99 • Dimension Warp • The Kchrusivour Gambit • Trapped in the Pages of History • Dawn of the Living Bread • Air Force Gone • The Frankenstein Particle • Dog of War! • Harvest of Doom • The Atomon Invasion • Wait Until Morning • Humans Aren't Just for Christmas • Vengeance of the Atomon • Picture Imperfect • The Star Serpent • The Home Store • Cold Comfort • Faster Than Light • The Fairest of Them All • New and Improved • Malthill Way • The Demons of Repton Abbey • The Punch & Judy Trap • Buy, Buy, Baby! • Ghosts of the Never-were • The Parasites • Doomland • Buying Time • Island of the Cyclopes • Trouble on the Orion Express • Dummy Run • Finders Keepers • The Mirror War • Ghost Train • I Scream • Le Tour de Death • The Sky is Falling! • The Time Gallery • The Cliff Face • Bumble of Destruction • The Light Catcher • Dungeon of the Lost • The Intergalactic Trials • 24-Hour News Invasion • The Panic Room • Terror from the Swamp • The Planet That Slept • Planet of the Rorys • Dawn of Time! • TV Hell! • Pondnium!
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