Ripper's Curse (comic story)

Ripper's Curse
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Amy, Rory
Main enemy:	Mac'atyde
Main setting:	Whitechapel & Scotland Yard, London, 30 September 1888 Whitechapel, 8-9 November 1888 Whitechapel, 2011
Key crew
Publisher:	IDW Publishing
Editor:	Denton J. Tipton
Writer:	Tony Lee
Artist:	Richard Piers Rayner, Horacio Domingues, Tim Hamilton
Colourist:	Phil Elliott
Letterer:	Shawn Lee
Release details
Number of parts:	3
Release number:	2
Printed in:	DW11 2 - 4
Release date:	16 March - 27 April 2011
Format:	Comic
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Ripper's Curse was the second story published in Doctor Who (2011). Like the first, it featured the newly-married Amy Pond and Rory Williams in an adventure with the Eleventh Doctor.

Publisher's summary

Part one

This is it! No alternate worlds, no dreams or virtual cities-it's the first time ever that the Doctor goes up against JACK THE RIPPER! When the Doctor, Rory, and Amy find themselves in Whitechapel in 1888, they become part of a murder hunt for Jack himself-or should that be Jack ITself?

Part two

Jack The Ripper has been caught! And even the Doctor has trouble talking his way out of this one! But why is the true Ripper following Amy? What is her connection to Mary Kelly? And how has Rory become the chief of police?

Part three

Mary Kelly's dead, but was she supposed to die? In a changing future, the Doctor discovers his actions have led to a larger number of "canonical" Ripper victims—and that Amy is remembered as the next to be murdered... Can they find her before the future becomes real?

Plot

The Ripper's Curse (1)

The group travel back to Jack the Ripper's murders.

The Ripper's Gift (2)

Amy is kidnapped and wakes up bound and gagged with a green alien lizard looming on her.

The Canonical Twelve (3)

The Doctor and Rory hear in the Present Amy became one of the Ripper's victims. They go back to save her, the Doctor saying eventually the Universe will accept the changed list. In the past Amy is bound and gagged and encounters a green monstrosity, that claims it will take the Doctor's Time Craft. She finds Mary Kelly, who was also drugged. The Doctor and Rory meet a similar creature who claims the murderer is Mac'atyde, a criminal he is tracking. They battle and are sent through a portal into space.

Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Amy Pond
• Rory Williams
• Jack the Ripper
• Mary Kelly
• Elizabeth Stride
• Charles Warren
• Inspector Frederick Abberline
• Catherine Eddowes
• Mary Warner
• Tom Bullen
• Josie
• Lewis
• Chief Inspector Smith
• Bert
• 2011 Ripper tour guide

Worldbuilding

• Amy Pond and Rory Williams use the aliases Miss Marple and Inspector Clouseau.
• Mac'atyde hears the Doctor's two hearts.
• Alternate timelines have a period of time before "the universe accepts them".
• Mac'atyde's portal is mistaken for a freak time eddy.
• Rory claims he liked Inspector Frederick Abberline better when he looked like Johnny Depp.

Story notes

• Despite the publisher's claim for part one, above, the Doctor has indeed investigated the crimes of Jack the Ripper before, in the BBC novel Matrix.
• In A Good Man Goes to War, which aired not long after this comic story concluded, Madame Vastra claims to have caught and eaten Jack the Ripper. This contradicts the events of Ripper's Curse.

Continuity

• The Doctor says that the TARDIS is "still playing up since all that holographic spam left her". (COMIC: Spam Filtered)
• The Doctor considers starting to carry a lasso with him, stating that lassos "are cool". (TV: The Eleventh Hour, et al.)
• Mac'atyde uses a shimmer suit to disguise himself as human. (TV: The End of Time)
• In order to track Mac'atyde down, the Doctor uses a device similar to the one he used in TV: Vincent and the Doctor.
• The Doctor mentions that William Shakespeare also wasn't fooled by the psychic paper. (TV: The Shakespeare Code)