Talk:The Many Lives of Doctor Who

Significant merger

Despite receiving individual titles these stories were never intended to be individuals and were all part of the same narrative as The Many Lives of Doctor Who (comic story). DrWHOCorrieFan ☎ 22:14, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

I realise my initial post was vague, I'll elaborate.

The Man Lives of Doctor Who is one single narrative which takes place during the 12th Doctor's regeneration into the 13th. Throughout the story the Doctor looks back into their past and revisits adventures where the central theme was change. These cutaways were all given individual titles; The Path of Skulls, Card Conundrum, etc, but were not individual stories.

It can be determined that this was a single narrative due to;

A) None of the stories finish with "The End" (which to my knowledge Titan Comics always does - or at least some variation - at the end of their stories) nor do they have "To be continued". This is literally one single narrative that plays out over multiple different adventures throughout the Doctors lives and the individual titles is no different than Doctor Who and the Iron Legion having The Iron Legion, Into the Dimension Duct, etc. They are chapter titles not individual story titles.

B) Each chapter has a continuous narration that speaks in the past tense directly to the Thirteenth Doctor.

C) The artists who designed individual chapters are not credited for having provided the art per story, instead they are credited per Doctor, which shows that this release was not thought of as being multiple individual stories.

I do not think that it would take anything away from the site by merging all these stories together. That is how they were clearly supposed to be intended. DrWHOCorrieFan ☎ 23:17, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Does anyone have anything to add on this subject? DrWHOCorrieFan ☎ 22:00, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

I'll concede that it could easily go both ways, but my vote would be for keeping it as-is. The segments do all have separate titles and artists, and, aside from the linking narration, each segment is narratively distinct, with no narrative elements connecting the segments other than that they are what the Doctor is remembering while regenerating. In my mind, this seems more akin to the prose Short Trips that have linking stories rather than to a single story. Schreibenheimer ☎ 14:52, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

I'm inclined to agree, although this is a tricky one and I'd be happy to hear more views. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 23:29, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Who are you agreeing with @Scrooge? DrWHOCorrieFan ☎ 01:42, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

I have found what I believe to be the closest comparison, DWM's The Time of My Life has the Doctor remembering multiple different adventures between himself an Donna. Each short segment has a different art style albeit no chapter heading. As I mentioned before Titan Comics seem to always put "The End" (or some alternate) at the end of their stories no matter how short. None of these "individual stories" received that treatment but the very end of the entire story did. DrWHOCorrieFan ☎ 09:55, 31 July 2022 (UTC)