The Time Gallery (comic story)
The Time Gallery is a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2012.
Summary
On the planet Darathos, the Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams visit an abandoned alien art gallery. It’s a Time Gallery that displays pictures of future selves, pictures from a few minutes or even years ahead. Amy looks worried in her picture and it's not long before the travellers are hiding from the arrival of a group of Skavengers about to raid the gallery of its technology.
The travellers use Amy’s phone to take a ‘future’ picture. A hasty departure is interrupted when Rory is captured by the Skavengers moments after finding a picture of himself with half a robot head! Having viewed the Doctor's photos taken on Amy's phone in the TARDIS, they see an image of the Skavengers reacting to the flash on the camera.
The Doctor and Amy attempt to rescue Rory from being transformed - blinding the Skavengers with the phone’s flash. They return to the safety of the TARDIS as the gallery’s defence mechanism (previously blocked by the Skavengers), is reactivated and explodes around them. With the gallery and the Skavengers destroyed, the Doctor believes it is a good thing – far too many spoilers!
Named characters
References
- The Doctor refers to Rory Williams as ‘Mr Pond’.
- The Doctor believed all Time Galleries to have been closed down by his own people (Time Lords).
Notes
- The Doctor seems indifferent to the fate of the Skavengers who appear to be caught up in the exploding gallery.
Original print details
- Publication with page count and closing captions
- DWA 269 (4 pages) DON’T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!
- No reprints to date.
Continuity
- The Doctor's dislike of spoilers is a running theme with his relationship with River Song,
- Amy Pond's phone flash has previously been used against the Saturnyn in The Vampires of Venice.
