Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)
Laundro-Room of Doom was a comic strip published in Free Comic Book Day 2015.
Summary
Chaos strikes when the Doctor and Gabby attempt to do their laundry aboard the TARDIS!
Plot
A mud-soaked Gabby complains to the Doctor, about having seemingly lied about the weather of their destination; it was supposed to be bone-dry. The Doctor apologizes for his mistake, explaining that they landed in the rainy season by mistake.
Gabby is upset her shirt is ruined, but the Doctor tells her it can be fixed, they decend a staircase to one of the TARDIS hallways. The Doctor shows her the laundry room, telling Gabby to enjoy the spa to relax first. The Doctor changes into a new outfit while she enjoys the bath.
Dressed in a bathrobe, Gabby listens to the Doctor explain the laundro de-mat will dematerialize their clothes, separate the dirt and re-materialize the clothes as they were before being soiled; the dirt will being sent for compost. Unbeknownst to them, the Doctor has left the sonic in the machine.
The Doctor shows Gabby the wardrobe, where she comments on the Sixth Doctor's coat; the Doctor defends this by saying he was a different man then. Suddenly a mud monster appears. The Doctor quickly deduces he forgot his sonic screwdriver in his jacket pocket and it helped animate this creature with the TARDIS telepathic field; it was just trying to give it back to him. Retrieving it, the Doctor decides they should check on their clothes.
A not-too-pleased Gabby and Doctor inspect their clothes. Sure, the machine did get rid of the dirt, but it gave Gabby's shirt pinstripes and the Doctor's suit flowers.
Characters
References
- The Doctor mentions that the dirt is deposited in compost for "the cloisters", implying that there's a garden in the cloister room yet again.
Notes
- The Doctor mentions that the TARDIS is self-cleaning and copies clothes it likes to fill the wardrobe.
- Due to a glitch with the laundry machine, the Doctor's shirts are always rumpled.
- Another glitch switches patterns on clothes with each other.
Original print details
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Continuity
- The Doctor lands the TARDIS on a date he didn't mean to. (TV: The Unquiet Dead, Tooth and Claw, The Eleventh Hour)
- The Doctor takes Gabby down to the TARDIS laundry room. (AUDIO: The One Doctor, PROSE: A Life in the Day)
- The Doctor refers to the TARDIS's "boot cupboard." (TV: The Masque of Mandragora)
- Gabby sees the Sixth Doctor's suit in the TARDIS wardrobe and the Doctor defends the outfit by claiming "it was the height of sartorial splendor." (TV: The Twin Dilemma et al)
- Parts of the Fourth Doctor's, Fifth Doctor's, and Eighth Doctor's costumes appear in the TARDIS wardrobe. (TV: Robot, Castrovalva, Doctor Who)
- The Doctor and Gabby are shown descending a long spiral staircase within the TARDIS to get to the laundry room and wardrobe. (TV: The Snowmen)
