The Pestilent Heart (comic story)

The Pestilent Heart
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Jess
Main enemy:	Plague
Main setting:	London, 1972
Key crew
Publisher:	Panini Comics
Editor:	Scott Gray and John Ainsworth
Writer:	Mark Wright
Penciller:	Mike Collins
Inker:	David A Roach
Colourist:	James Offredi
Letterer:	Roger Langridge
Release details
Number of parts:	3
Printed in:	DWM 501 - DWM 503
Release date:	30 June-25 August 2016
Cover date:	August - October 2016
Reprinted in:	Doorway to Hell
Format:	Comic
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The Pestilent Heart was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine in 2016. It featured the return of Jess Collins, beginning a short story arc in which the Doctor moves in with Jess and her family as he waits for the TARDIS to repair itself following a system overload.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Lloyd Collins
• Daisy
• Maxwell Collins
• Jess Collins
• Devina Collins
• Twelfth Doctor
• Clara Oswald
• Gabriel Rosewood
• Brian
• Moan'na
• Dr Simon Layton
• Te'kona

References

to be added

Notes

• In Part One, Clara Oswald, Gabriel Rosewood and the Corvids briefly appear in a flashback set during the comic story The Highgate Horror. Despite the Doctor encountering characters who are aware of Clara in stories set after Hell Bent, this is one of the only times in any media that someone else is shown explicitly remembering her.

Original print details

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

• DWM 501 (12 pages) Next: Terror in the Dark!
• DWM 502 (12 pages) Next: Sacrifice in the Sky!
• DWM 503 (12 pages) Next: Moving In!

Continuity

• Jess Collins appears, recalling the death of her boyfriend Dave and the defeat of the Corvids by the Doctor and Clara. (COMIC: The Highgate Horror)
• The Doctor has no memory of Clara Oswald. (TV: Hell Bent) He does, however, remember the events of his previous encounter with Jess. (COMIC: The Highgate Horror)