The Flood (comic story)

The Flood
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eighth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Destrii
Main enemy:	The Cybermen
Main setting:	Early 21st century, Earth
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Panini Comics]]
Writer:	Scott Gray
Artist:	Martin Geraghty David A. Roach (Inking)
Release details
Format:	Comic - 7 parts

Summary

The Doctor and Destrii arrive on Earth to find a market place is recieving rain that radically alters emotions, a test being conducted by the Future Cybermen...

Characters

• The Doctor
• Destrii
• The Cybermen

References

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Notes

• The graphic novel The Flood reveals that this story was originally going to feature the canonical regeneration into the Ninth Doctor. The magazine passed on this opportunity as they would not have been able to show Destrii's reaction to the regeneration.
• The Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver is destroyed by the Cyberleader. He presumably builds another one before (DW: Rose (TV story))
• The Cybermen cannot convert aliens into Cybermen. (Which could contradict Lytton's near conversion in (DW: Attack of the Cybermen) but it is never stated that Lytton was not human).
• This comic story was rereleased in The Flood graphic novel .
• Izzy Sinclair makes a cameo.
• Grace Holloway makes a cameo.

Continuity

• The story features the return of MI6 and its director, Leighton Woodrow. They were previously used in The Fallen.
• The Cyber-Controller returns, having last been seen in DW: Attack of the Cybermen.
• The Cybermen again travel through time (DW: Earthshock/Attack of the Cybermen).
• The Doctor mentions that radiation exposure is a good way to trigger a Regeneration, he knows this because that was how the Third Doctor regenerated in DW: Planet of the Spiders.
• Cybus Cybermen invade Earth a few years after this attempt in the episodes DW: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday)

External Links

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