The Great Shopping Bill (comic story)

The Great Shopping Bill
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Nardole, Bill
Featuring:	Missy, Heather
Main setting:	St Luke's University c. 2017 Übermarket, 5,000,000,000s
Key crew
Publisher:	Titan Comics
Editor:	Andrew James
Writer:	Richard Dinnick
Cover by:	Adam Cadwell
Designer:	Andrew Leung
Artist:	Pasquale Qualano
Colourist:	Hi-Fi
Letterer:	Richard Starkings and Jimmy Betancourt
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Printed in:	12DY3 9
Release date:	15 November 2017
Traded in:	Time Trials: The Wolves of Winter
Format:	Comic - 1 part
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The Great Shopping Bill was the fourth story (fifth counting COMIC: The Lost Dimension: The Twelfth Doctor) of the third year of Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic story series, published in 2017.

The story featured Nardole's first appearance in the ongoing Twelfth Doctor comic series, although his first comic appearance was in COMIC: The Lost Dimension. It also featured Missy's first appearance in the ongoing comic series.

Summary

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Characters

Main story

• Twelfth Doctor
• Bill Potts
• Nardole
• Missy
• Thomas Kincade Brannigan
• Valerie Brannigan
• Tyto
• Heather

Worldbuilding

• Bill convinced the Doctor to watch Back to the Future. However, all the Doctor can do is criticise the portrayal of time travel in the film.
• It's implied the Doctor finds Everlasting Gobstoppers from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, saying he knew that they made matches, but not Gobstoppers.
• The Vault has a dimensional stabiliser.
• Pathicols feed on the empathy of others.
• The Doctor likes Nanjura fruit juice.
  • Nanjura fruit juice shouldn't be given to Silurians.

Notes

• The robots at the Übermarket begin sentences with a phrase between two plus signs (e.g. "+Statement+"). In one panel, it mistakenly begins with two plus signs ("++Directive+")
• The Doctor mistakenly refers to Back to the Future's Marty McFly as "Morty". Bill replies saying "Morty's a whole other thing", a reference to Rick and Morty.
• The Doctor would quote Back to the Future by saying "Great Scott!"
• The Doctor quotes Star Wars in saying "Boring conversation anyway".
• The three robots seen close up have the designations "N-e-1-4-10-S", "X-i-10-2-C-u", and "N-i-4-N-i" . Read aloud these sound (approximately) like: "Anyone for tennis", "Exciting to see you", and "An eye for an eye".

Continuity

• The Doctor mentions that he's crossed his own time stream, and there were "Reapers everywhere! Vicar set upon! TARDIS kaput!" (TV: Father's Day)
• Missy was let out of the Vault and into the TARDIS once before. (TV: Empress of Mars)
• Raxacoricofallapatorians (TV: Aliens of London / World War Three et al), Trees of Cheem (TV: The End of the World), Thomas Kincade Brannigan and Valerie Brannigan (TV: Gridlock) are shopping at the Übermarket.
• Deserts, sweets, and pudding sign reads "Wibbly-wobbly, limey-wimey jelly." (TV: Blink et al)
• "Impossible soufflé grills" are on sale at the Übermarket. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks, The Snowmen et al)
• Bill tells Olivia Gowland that she lost her mother. (TV: The Pilot)
• The Doctor finds Jelly Babies at the Übermarket. (TV: The Dominators et al)
• The Doctor says Bill smiles when she doesn't understand something. (TV: The Pilot)
• The Doctor doesn't like the Übermarket robots due to their similar shape to the Daleks. The robots say "Seek! Locate! Restrain!", similar to the Daleks' "Seek! Locate! Exterminate/Destroy!" (TV: Destiny of the Daleks et al)
• Heather is keeping an eye on Bill (TV: The Pilot)
• Nardole says "Carrot juice, carrot juice, carrot juice..." (TV: The Ultimate Foe)
• Bill finds Nanjura juice, but the Doctor warns not to give it to Silurians because it is toxic to them. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

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