The Pestilent Heart (comic story)

The Pestilent Heart
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Jess
Featuring:	Lloyd, Devina, Maxwell
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, who last appeared in COMIC: The Highgate Horror, and also introduced her her parents, Devina and Llyod, and her younger brother, Maxwell. Most notably, the ending marked the beginning of a short story arc in which the Doctor moves in with the Collins family while he waits for his TARDIS to repair itself following a system overload.

Plot

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Characters

• Twelfth Doctor
• Jess Collins
• Lloyd Collins
• Devina Collins
• Maxwell Collins
• Simon Layton
• Moan'na
• Daisy
• Brian
• Te'kona

Worldbuilding

• Lloyd and Jess plan to see the latest Carry On film, with Lloyd looking forward to seeing Sid James and Barbara Windsor in it.
• Lloyd is taken to Kings College Hospital.
• Moan'na landed in London shortly before the Bubonic plague of 1665.
• The Doctor uses the phrase, "Up Shobogan creek without a warp drive".
• When thinking about his family, Lloyd envisions Maxwell wearing a Spider-Man shirt.
• As he skydives out of the TARDIS, the Doctor yells, "Geronimo", saying he is quoting "a wise man".

Notes

• Clara Oswald, Gabriel Rosewood and the Corvids briefly appear in a flashback to COMIC: The Highgate Horror.

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 recalls the death of her boyfriend Dave and the defeat of the Corvids by the Doctor and Clara six months previously. (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)
• The Doctor once again tries to use "Funkenstein" as an aliases. (TV: The Zygon Invasion)
• The Doctor is as irritated by "domestics" as his ninth incarnation was. (TV: Aliens of London)