The Wolves of Winter (comic story)

The Wolves of Winter
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Bill
Main enemy:	Ice Warriors, the Flood, Haemovore, Fenric
Main setting:	North Atlantic Ocean, 9th century
Key crew
Editor:	Andrew James
Writer:	Richard Dinnick
Cover by:	Claudia Ianniciello
Designer:	Andrew Leung
Artist:	Brian Williamson
Colourist:	Hi-Fi
Letterer:	Richard Starkings and Jimmy Betancourt
Release details
Printed in:	12DY3 5-7
Release date:	5 July 2017 -
Format:	Comic - 3 parts
Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor
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The Wolves of Winter was the sixteenth story of the Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic series, published in 2017. The story featured Bill Potts' first appearance in the ongoing Twelfth Doctor comic series, even though it was published only a few days after her final appearance on TV in TV: The Doctor Falls. It featured the return of two Martian species from Doctor Who - the Ice Warriors and the Flood.

Summary

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Characters

Main story

• Twelfth Doctor
• Bill Potts
• Sundvik
• Ingiga
• Grimvald
• Halfdan
• Ingigeror Ragnavald
• Torkal
• Asmund
• Sskoll
• Haathi
• Ancient One

Flashback

• Seventh Doctor
• Ace

References

• The Doctor says Henry III kept a polar bear at the tower. The Doctor caused a stir when he let it out for a swim in the Thames.
• Odin's ravens are called Hugin and Munin.

Notes

• This story is a rare example of using the dating system of CE (Common Era) over AD (anno domini or "In the year of our Lord")
• Bill remarks how the Vikings do not have horns. This is an in-joke reference to criticism levelled at TV: The Girl Who Died, which featured stereotypical (and historically inaccurate) horn-wearing Vikings. The Vikings seen in this story are depicted closer to how they appear in the popular TV series Vikings.
• Bill and the Doctor previously encountered the Ice Warriors in the TV episode, TV: Empress of Mars, which was clearly the former's first encounter with them. Her recognition of them in the second issue places this story after that episode.

Continuity

• The Doctor tells Bill that he once fought a werewolf with the Koh-i-Noor. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
• The Doctor laments "Vikings. Again!" He also finds himself mistaken for Odin again. (TV: The Girl Who Died)
• The Ice Warriors carry the Flood. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
• Bill recognises the Ice Warriors. She had described them as being like The Vikings. (TV: Empress of Mars)
• The Doctor tells Sskoll that he is a friend of Grand Marshal Skaldak. (TV: Cold War)
• The Doctor tells the Vikings that Ragnarok was "a long time ago" and that "they made [him] play the spoons." (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
• Putting on a spacesuit with the Doctor again, Bill is pleased that she does not have to pay for oxygen. (TV: Oxygen)
• The Doctor recognises the names of the "Asmund, Grimvald, Torkal, Halfdan. Brave Viking warriors." as he comes into contact with a messenger of Fenric. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)

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