The Continuity Cap (comic story)

The Continuity Cap
Doctor:	Tenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Donna
Main enemy:	ReThinx
Main setting:	Early 21st century, Earth
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
Editor:	Moray Laing
Writer:	Christopher Cooper
Artist:	John Ross
Colourist:	Alan Craddock
Letterer:	Paul Vyse
Release details
Number of parts:	2
Printed in:	DWA 66-67
Release date:	29 May - 5 June 2008
Format:	Comic
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The Continuity Cap was a Doctor Who Adventures comic story featuring the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble.

The comic featured a device which would switch elements of the primary Doctor Who universe with parallel realities, depicting such things as a red telephone box TARDIS and a sonic toothbrush. The comic is also notable for introducing lore relating to the Dark Times, certainly uncommon for the era and the typical tone of Doctor Who Adventures.

Summary

Part 1

to be added

Part 2

to be added

Characters

• Tenth Doctor
• Donna Noble
• Falanx
• Dodos
• Kevin
• Receptionist
• Lady Philomena Philpot
• Sir Stephen Cropper
• Hyffons
• Sontaran
• Stephen Cropper's significant other
• Stephen Cropper's baby

Worldbuilding

• The Continuity Cap functions by swapping elements of the Doctor's universe with other universes. Thus, logically, all of the alternate elements of the Doctor's life come from other universes.
• In the version of Earth after the Cap is set off, Dodos are not extinct.
• Her hands changed to claws, Donna complains that she feels "Racnossy".

Notes

A Sontaran is inserted into the comic's illustration.

• A feature of the 67th issue of Doctor Who Adventures was that an image of the Sontaran Skorr was hidden somewhere in the magazine. Those who identified where he was hidden and mailed in a response were given a chance at winning a Doctor Who Uno set. It just happens that Skorr was hiding within the Continuity Cap comic, being hidden in a depiction of the Hyffon conflict which led to the creation of the Continuity Cap. This depiction, of a Sontaran taking part in an infamous ancient war, does make sense from an in-universe perspective, despite the Sontaran clearly being a production photo edited into a 2D illustration.
• Once can presume that many elements of this story, such as Stephen Cropper being knighted and the futuristic depiction of Earth, are an effect of the Continuity Cap.

Original print details

Publication with page count and closing captions

1. DWA 66 (5 pages)
2. DWA 67 (5 pages)

Continuity

• Donna mentions the Racnoss. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
• The Doctor states that the cap is a device from the Dark Times. (TV: The Five Doctors, et al.)