Strange Loops (comic story)

Strange Loops
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Alice, the Sapling
Main setting:	Disch, Zoline
Key crew
Editor:	Jessica Burton
Writer:	Alex Paknadel
Artist:	I.N.J. Culbard
Colourist:	Triona Farrell
Letterer:	Richard Starkings, Jimmy Betancourt
Release details
Printed in:	11DY3 9, 11
Release date:	30 August - 25 October 2017
Cover date:	September - November 2017
Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor
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Strange Loops was the seventh mainstream story published in Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor year three.

Summary

Part 1

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Part 2

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Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Alice Obiefune
• The Sapling
• The Scream
• Bax
• Pfortner
• Orphan
• Beaback
• Sendham
• Shriven

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor revisits memories of Martha Jones, Sutekh, Ace, and a Cyberman.
• The Doctor mentions that llamas are easily spooked.
• Zoline is located in the Ligotti Tract.
• In the past, the Doctor seduced quantum kelp off the coast of Revok and survived a cage match with the placenta of Bax's firstborn son.
• When the Doctor previously visited Zoline, it was home to the Great Treehouses of Kantoum and the Fields of Shrieking Wheat.
• Earth has dangerously corrosive acid rain in the mid-21st century.
• Music by Kenny G plays in the elevator on Zoline.

Notes

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Continuity

• The Doctor uses a Chameleon Arch headset to access his memories. (TV: Human Nature)
• The Doctor has a flashback to being in a barn with the Moment at the end of the Last Great Time War. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
• The Orphaned Hour was part of the Omega Arsenal along with the Moment during the Time War. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
• When the Doctor is experiencing his "very minor anoxic seizure", he mutters the words, "I'll miss you too, Savage." He previously said these words upon leaving Leela on Gallifrey. (TV: The Invasion of Time)