Doctor Whos? (comic story)

Doctor Who?
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Clara, River
Featuring:	First Doctor, Sara, First Monk, Dalek, Mechonoid, Zarbi, Ice Warrior
Main setting:	Shepherd's Bush Café, Earth-33⅓
Key crew
Publisher:	Panini Comics
Writer:	Tim Quinn
Artist:	Dicky Howett
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	163
Printed in:	DWM 500
Release date:	26 May 2016
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Doctor Whos? was the one-hundred-and-sixty-third instalment of Doctor Who?. It was printed in DWM 500 in 2016, as a one-off to celebrate the landmark issue.

This was the first Doctor Who story since DWM 350's instalment in 2004. The next instalment, The Continuing Adventures of Doctor no. 14, was printed in DWM 600, which came out in 2024.

Summary

The Twelfth Doctor updates his first incarnation on how the universe has changed since 1966. Elsewhere, a Zarbi and a Mechonoid discuss Dalekmania.

Characters

• Twelfth Doctor
• First Doctor
• Clara Oswald
• River Song
• Sara Kingdom
• First Monk
• Dalek
• Mechonoid
• Zarbi
• Ice Warrior
• P Cushion

References

• A DWM 500 party is being held in the Shepherd's Bush café.
• The café is built where the TV Centre once was. A man stands on the grounds describing that it was "big and sort of round".
• The First Doctor is confused after being told he is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. P Cushion asks him to think how he feels.
• The Twelfth Doctor initally introduces Clara as deceased, but she tells him she is actually alive "thanks to the thingy swirling round the wotsit".
• The First Doctor introduces Sara as an example of how to play dead, saying she hasn't moved since 1966.
• After the Twelfth Doctor introduced "the wifey", the First Doctor responds by saying she needs a "jolly good smacked bottom".
• Neither the Zarbi or the Mechonoid understand Dalekmania, with the latter admitting it still has a ton of Mechonoid soap to get rid of.
• A girl gets excited after touching a Dalek's sucker, another shrieks nearby, whilst a third screams in joy to be near a Dalek.
• A man resembling the First Doctor sarcastically asks the Monk and an Ice Warrior what kind of Carry On film it is, before ordering them to get back on set.
• The Twelfth Doctor claims these days he is looked on as a god by the universe, as well as having a nice line in current UK slang. The First Doctor responds by saying this was why he decided to stay in 1966.

Notes

• As the first story published since DWM 350's instalment twelve years prior in 2004, this story is the first one to feature characters from the 2005 version of the show. As such, this story marks the first and only appearances to date of the Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald and River Song in the series.
• The First Doctor's line to the Twelfth Doctor saying that River needs a "jolly good smacked bottom" is a reference to his comment to granddaughter Susan Foreman in The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
• The first three panels of this story were printed in black-and-white in Dicky Howett's autobiography, Drawing Breath, which was released on 31 May 2016.