Old Friends (comic story)

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Old Friends was the third story of the regular run of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor comic story series, published in 2019.

	Thirteenth Doctor
	Graham, Ryan, Yaz
	The Corsair
	Titan Comics
	Jonathan Stevenson
	Jody Houser
	Andrew Leung
	Roberta Ingranata
	Enrica Eren Angiolini & Viviana Spinelli
	Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Sarah Jacobs & John Roshell
	13D 9 -
	16 June 2019 -
	Comic
Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor
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The story is notable for containing the first physical appearance of the Corsair, a fellow Time Lord first mentioned by the Eleventh Doctor in The Doctor's Wife.

Summary

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Characters

• Thirteenth Doctor
• Graham O'Brien
• Ryan Sinclair
• The Corsair

Flashback:

• Missy
• Eleventh Doctor

References

Planets

• The Doctor and her companions watch a parade on Devivian.
  • Military parades are the Doctor's least favourite kind of parade, except for the one she saw on Vlee Prime, which she found "fascinating".
• Vlee Prime's military forces were strict pacifists.

Artefacts

• The Doctor is accused of stealing the gem of Niag.

Technology

• The Doctor stores a Hypercube.
• The Corsair's TARDIS's chameleon circuit is programmed to resemble a pirate ship.

Weapons

• The Corsair wields a sword.
• The Corsair destroys a green aliens killgun.

Miscellaneous

• The last time the Doctor and the Corsair had a drink together, it led to the Doctor waking up inside a bank vault.
• Graham says the Corsair looks like she's dressed as a pirate at a dinner theatre.

Notes

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Continuity

• The Doctor initially believes the thief to be Missy, who she glumly cited was doing "so much better" the last time she saw her. (TV: World Enough and Time, The Doctor Falls)
  • She also states that "Missy" was at least the name she was going by when they last met. Indeed, Missy was the name that the Master started going by after regenerating into a female body. (TV: Dark Water)
• The Corsair is female, which the Eleventh Doctor said she had been "a couple of times". (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
• The Doctor still has the Corsair's hypercube with her Ouroboros tattoo. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
• The Doctor recalls events on House where the Eleventh Doctor found a cupboard full of hypercubes and discovered Auntie had the Corsair's arm. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
• Team TARDIS free a Star whale. The Doctor states that they'll be "all but extinct in a few centuries". (TV: The Beast Below)
• The Doctor says "allons-y". (TV: Army of Ghosts, et el.)