Ripper's Curse (comic story)
Ripper's Curse was the second story published in Doctor Who (2011). Like the first, it featured the newly-married Amy Pond and Rory Williams in an adventure with the Eleventh Doctor.
Publisher's summary
Solicitation summary for part one:
- This is it! No alternate worlds, no dreams or virtual cities-it's the first time ever that the Doctor goes up against JACK THE RIPPER! When the Doctor, Rory, and Amy find themselves in Whitechapel in 1888, they become part of a murder hunt for Jack himself-or should that be Jack ITself?
Solicitation summary for part two:
- Jack The Ripper has been caught! And even the Doctor has trouble talking his way out of this one! But why is the true Ripper following Amy? What is her connection to Mary Kelly? And how has Rory become the chief of police?
Solicitation summary for part three:
- Mary Kelly's dead, but was she supposed to die? In a changing future, the Doctor discovers his actions have led to a larger number of "canonical" Ripper victims—and that Amy is remembered as the next to be murdered… Can they find her before the future becomes real?
Plot
Part 1
The group travel back to Jack the Ripper's murders.
Part 2
Part 3
Amy is kidnapped and wakes up bound and gagged with a green alien lizard looming on her.
Part 4
The Doctor and Rory hear in the Present Amy became one of the Ripper's victims. They go back to save her, the Doctor saying eventually the Universe will accept the changed list. In the past Amy is bound and gagged and encounters a green monstrosity, that claims it will take the Doctor's Time Craft. She finds Mary Kelly, who was also drugged. The Doctor and Rory meet a similar creature who claims the murderer is Mac'atyde, a criminal he is tracking. They battle and are sent through a portal into space.
Characters
- Eleventh Doctor
- Amy Pond
- Rory Williams
- Mac'atyde (Jack the Ripper)
- Mary Kelly
- Elizabeth Stride
- a Ju'wes (Sir Charles Warren)
- Inspector Frederick Abberline
- Catherine Eddowes
- Mary Warner
- Tom Bullen
- Josie
- Lewis
- Chief Inspector Smith
- Bert
- 2011 Ripper tour guide
References
People
- Mary Anne Nichols
- Annie Chapman
- PC Smith
- Ptolemy
- William Shakespeare
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Sherlock Holmes
- Madame Mentalist
- Queen Victoria
- Johnny Depp
- Jules Verne
- H. G. Wells
- Adolf Hitler
- Jack the Ripper was also called Saucy Jack
- Amy Pond and Rory Williams use the aliases Miss Marple and Inspector Clouseau
Organisations
- Metropolitan Police Service
- City of London Police
- Home Office
- Central News Agency
- "CSI London"
- Football League
- Accrington Stanley
- Freemasons
- British Royal Family
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Species
- Lizard
- Re'nar
- Ju'wes
- Mac'atyde says Time Lords are "all dead. Nothing but stories."
Anatomy and physiology
- Tympanic membrane
- Peritoneal lining
- Kidney
- Adrenal gland
- Adrenal medulla
- Mac'atyde hears the Doctor's two hearts
- Adrenaline
- Pheromones
- Minerals
Physics
- Kryon radiation
- The energy attached to those who travel with the Doctor (artron energy)
- The Ripper murders are static points
- Alternate timelines have a period of time before "the universe accepts them."
- Mac'atyde's portal is mistaken for a freak time eddy.
Songs
Locations
- Matrua Nebula
- Scotland Yard
- Whitechapel
- Berner Street
- Dutfield's Yard (also written as Dutfield Yard)
- Spitalfields
- Whitechapel High Street
- Commercial Road
- Mitre Square
- Goulsten Street
- Ten Bells pub
- Miller's Court
- Hanbury Street
- Brick Lane
- Finch Street
- Stanley Arms
- Upper Leadworth
- Normandy
- drunk tank
Story Notes
- Despite the publisher's claim for part one, above, the Doctor has indeed investigated the crimes of Jack the Ripper before, in the BBC novel Matrix.
- The events of TV: A Good Man Goes to War aired not long after the story concluded, contradicting the events of this story.
Continuity
to be added
Cover gallery
Issue 2 (Cover A)
Issue 2 (Cover B)
Issue 2 (Cover C)
Issue 3 (Cover A)
Issue 3 (Cover RI)
Issue 3 (Cover B)
Issue 4 (Cover A)
Issue 4 (Cover RI)
Issue 4 (Cover B)
