John Smith and the Common Men (comic story)

	Eleventh Doctor
	Clara
	Mr Waites
	The Hellscape
	[[publisher::Panini Comics]]
	Tom Spilsbury, Peter Ware
	Scott Gray
	David A Roach
	James Offredi
	Roger Langridge
	November 2013
	Comic, 12 pages
DWM comic stories
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John Smith and the Common Men was a comic story published in the 50th anniversary issue of Doctor Who Magazine, issue 467.

Summary

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Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Harry Sullivan
• Mr Waites
• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
• Jamie McCrimmon
• Ace
• Clara Oswald

References

• The Eleventh Doctor's dream has depictions of Harry Sullivan, the Brigadier, Jamie McCrimmon, Ace and Clara Oswald.
• The Doctor and Harry work at the Department of Commonality.
• During the Doctor's job as assistant mediator, he turns away the Brig, an "old soldier" whose army pension has expired; Jamie, a Scottish boy who is being sent to a work camp; and Ace, a teenage girl who is being sent to a correction unit for vandalism.

Notes

• This story is named after John Smith and the Common Men, a band first mentioned in TV: "An Unearthly Child".

Continuity

• Clara Oswald is said to have lived "so many lives, on so many worlds". (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
• The Clara in the dream, just like the real Clara and at least one of her echoes, has been working as a nanny. (TV: The Snowmen, The Bells of Saint John)