The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)

The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ally
Featuring:	Matt Smith
Main enemy:	Cyberman
Main setting:	London 2013
Key crew
Publisher:	IDW Publishing
Editor:	Denton J. Tipton
Writer:	Paul Cornell
Artist:	Jimmy Broxton
Letterer:	Shawn Lee
Release details
Printed in:	2013 Doctor Who Special
Release date:	24 December 2013
Format:	American comic book, 1 issue

The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who was a single-issue comic story published in the IDW 2013 Doctor Who Special. It was the final Doctor Who comic published by IDW under its licence from the BBC.

Summary

In this special one-shot story, a strange force flings the TARDIS and the Eleventh Doctor into our own universe! Once here, the Doctor encounters a 10-year-old girl who happens to be a huge fan of the Doctor Who TV show. The Doctor grapples with being a fictional character and a monster lurking at the girl's school on the way to coming face-to-face with the actor who portrays him, Matt Smith!

Plot

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Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Ally
• Matt Smith

References

• The Doctor is shown looking at the real-life DVD boxes for TV: The Twin Dilemma and the Complete Series 7.
• Episodes referred to by name include TV: The Android Invasion and Doomsday.
• The death of Elisabeth Sladen is mentioned, though the Doctor notes that, in his universe, Sarah Jane Smith is still alive and well.
• The Doctor is shown watching Amy Pond's farewell scene in TV: The Angels Take Manhattan. Coincidentally, the line "Raggedy Man, goodbye" is heard, which is similar to the "Raggedy Man, goodnight" line heard during the regeneration sequence in TV: The Time of the Doctor, broadcast the day after the comic was published.
• There is a flashback of Ally and two other girls reading Doctor Who The Official Annual 2007.
• At the Doctor Who convention, there are fans dressed as the Fourth Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, the TARDIS, two Krotons, a Zygon, the Experimental Prototype Robot K1, a Weeping Angel, a Slitheen, a Sea Devil, a Snowman, a Robot Yeti, a Sandminer robot, and a Smiler.
• The Doctor and Ally pass a street sign for "Cribbins St.", a reference to Bernard Cribbins.
• The Doctor tells Matt Smith that he thinks Peter Capaldi would be a good choice to play him in the future.
• The Doctor has apparently met Capaldi before, having saved him from a Mandrel. He has also met Peter Davison, having saved him once from a Krynoid.

Notes

• The basic plot of this story is identical to the 1999 Doctor Who Magazine story COMIC: TV Action! in which the Eighth Doctor found himself in the real world where his adventures are chronicled in a TV series starring Tom Baker. After Baker's appearance in that story and William Hartnell's cameo as "Billy" in AUDIO: Pier Pressure, this is the third time that a real life Doctor actor has been featured as a character in a Doctor Who storyline.
• This is the only issue published by IDW not to be reprinted in graphic novel form.

Continuity

• The Doctor once commissioned Andy Warhol to paint a portrait of all his incarnations. (WC: The War of Art) In place of the War Doctor, however, there is a silhouette (suggesting this story takes place prior to the events of TV: The Day of the Doctor)
• The Doctor recognises the Cyberman from the Battle of Canary Wharf while Ally simultaneously recognises it. (TV: Doomsday)

Cover gallery

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