The Fractures (comic story)

The Fractures
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Clara
Featuring:	Kate
Main enemy:	Fractures
Main setting:	London, 2014
Key crew
Publisher:	Titan Comics
Editor:	Andrew James
Writer:	Robbie Morrison
Cover by:	Blair Shedd (regular)
Designer:	Rob Farmer
Artist:	Brian Williamson
Colourist:	Hi-Fi
Letterer:	Richard Starkings Jimmy Betancourt
Release details
Printed in:	12D 6-8
Release date:	18 March - 3 June 2015
Cover date:	April 2015 - June 2015
Reprinted in:	DWCT 6, DWCT 7, DWCT 8
Traded in:	Fractures
Format:	Comic
Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor
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The Fractures was the third story of the Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic story series published in 2015.

Summary

Molly's father was killed in a terrible accident. UNIT scientist John Foster suffered the same fate. But are they really gone? Both play a part in the universe-hopping new arc! The Doctor and Clara race against time to both stop a dreaded new peril – the Fractures – in a bid to stop reality unravelling around them.

Plot

Part one

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Part two

to be added

Part three

The Doctor banishes the Fractures back to where they came from, marking himself as their mortal enemy. However, he does manage to let Paul stay in N-Space with his family.

Characters

• Twelfth Doctor
• Clara Oswald
• Kate Stewart
• Paul Foster
• Hannah Foster
• Lisa Foster
• Molly Foster

References

• Captain van Volk calls the Doctor the Oncoming Storm.
• The Doctor says he's old enough to be Kate's great-great-great-great-great grandfather, times ten. Kate retorts that it's nothing compared to the size of his ego.
• Clara defends the size of her flat by saying she lives on second-year teacher's wages.
• Osgood and some of her colleagues intend to see Interstellar.
• Clara used to drive a Mini.
• Rassilon cubes were devised by Rassilon as a form of incarceration. The Doctor was once locked in one and it took him six months to break free. Kate calls it a Rubik's cube.
• Amongst the Doctor's items in the TARDIS is the Ghostbusters-esque device from TV: The Caretaker.
• The Doctor has spare sonic screwdrivers and gives one to Clara.
• The Doctor calls Kate "Brigadier", alluding to her late father.

Notes

• The Doctor oddly doesn't mention the Battle of Canary Wharf or the Reality Bomb to the Fractures. Unlike Paul Foster, these were genuine threats to reality and the multiverse.
• Hinchcliffe Avenue in Schoreditch is likely a reference to Doctor Who producer Philip Hinchcliffe.
• The Doctor has a toy of Mrs. Tinkle from AAAGH! comic strips.

Original print details

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Continuity

• The Doctor refers to humanity as "pudding brains". (TV: Deep Breath et al)
• Lisa references the Doctor serving as Coal Hill School's caretaker. (TV: The Caretaker)
• The Doctor wears 3D glasses. (TV: Army of Ghosts)
• Clara jokes that none of her pupils are giving her requests for extra homework. (TV: The Caretaker)
• Potter remarks that Osgood is away and that she'd be devastated at missing the Doctor, especially since she replaced her scarf with a bow tie. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, Death in Heaven)
• The Doctor uses a strand of Clara's hair for a scientific test. (TV: Deep Breath)
• Paul Foster is able to travel from his universe into this one because he reverse-engineered the gate destroyed during the Battle of London in 2007. (TV: Army of Ghosts, Doomsday)
• Clara is surprised Hannah knows about her relationship with Danny Pink. She learnt it in playground gossip from Lisa. (TV: The Caretaker, In the Forest of the Night)
• The Doctor saves Clara and the Fosters from a crashing bus by flying the TARDIS alongside the doors and having them jump in. The Tenth Doctor pulled off a similar feat to save Donna Noble. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
• The Doctor gives Kate a Shreeker sonic cannon, which he says he got from Brooklyn. (COMIC: Echo)
• The Doctor continues to be apprehensive about hugging. (TV: Deep Breath, Listen)