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Thirteenth Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]
The tenure of Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor began with The Warmonger [+]Loading...["The Warmonger (comic story)"], which first began serialisation in DWM 531, originally published two weeks after the broadcast of her first full televised adventure, The Woman Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)"].
Overall, her run consisted of eleven stories. As on television, Yasmin Khan was her constant companion across all strips: Ryan and Graham were her contemporaries for the first six stories, with Dan Lewis taking over for the last four. The seventh story, The Forest Bride [+]Loading...["The Forest Bride (comic story)"], was one of the few pieces of media in general to depict Yaz as the Doctor's only companion, being published during the gap between the broadcasts of Revolution of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)"] and The Halloween Apocalypse [+]Loading...["The Halloween Apocalypse (TV story)"].
The Thirteenth Doctor suffered the misfortune of having her comic strip tenure greatly disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to difficulties in producing magazine issues remotely as a result of social distancing, the strips were forced to go on a hiatus following the end of The Piggybackers [+]Loading...["The Piggybackers (comic story)"] in DWM 552. The strip returned three issues later with Monstrous Beauty [+]Loading...["Monstrous Beauty (comic story)"], a tie-in to the multimedia Time Lord Victorious event which instead starred the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler, and lasted for three issues. The Thirteenth Doctor would return to headlining the comic strip immediately after, with The White Dragon [+]Loading...["The White Dragon (comic story)"]. Unfortunately, this was then followed by a second hiatus which lasted for seven issues, the longest in the magazine's history.
For the final two issues of the second hiatus, an original two-part prose story, Black Powder [+]Loading...["Black Powder (short story)"], was published to make up for the comic's absence. Furthermore, her final block of comic stories in the publication had two smaller breaks; the unexplained absence of a story in DWM 573, and the publication of Dr. Who & the Mechonoids [+]Loading...["Dr. Who & the Mechonoids (comic story)"], set in the continuity of the Peter Cushing films, in DWM 578.
The Everlasting Summer [+]Loading...["The Everlasting Summer (comic story)"], which marked the end of the Thirteenth Doctor's comic strip tenure, concluded in DWM 583, published a week-and-a-half before her final television story, The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"], making her the first Doctor whose television run outlasted her comic strip run.
Fourteenth Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]
David Tennant's surprise return as a new incarnation - the Fourteenth Doctor - at the end of The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor"], led to an unprecedented move in the comic strip's history: the Fourteenth Doctor's tenure in the strip began mere weeks after, and picked up immediately from where his televised debut left off, in a strip entitled Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"]. The story, which also marked the Daleks' return to the strips, spanned the entire fourteen issue span (DWM 584 - DWM 597) of the show's televised hiatus before the 60th Anniversary Specials, making it the longest serialised strip in the magazine's history. Indeed, the strip not only picked up from the Doctor's last televised appearance, but also led directly into his next - the Children in Need minisode, Destination: Skaro [+]Loading...["Destination: Skaro (TV story)"], broadcast the week after the strip's conclusion.
With one issue still to go before the debuting of Tennant's successor, the Fourteenth Doctor would round out his tenure with one last strip in DWM 598: an untitled story [+]Loading...["Untitled (DWM 598 comic story)","untitled story"] set during the prologue of the previous week's TV episode, Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"], which also marked the return of Donna Noble to the magazine strips.
Overall, the Fourteenth Doctor's comic book tenure lasted for fifteen issues. As with his predecessor, his comic strip run ended before his televised run did.
Fifteenth Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor began his comic strip tenure with Mancopolis [+]Loading...["Mancopolis (comic story)"], beginning in DWM 599, published a week-and-a-half after his first full television story, The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]. Said strip also saw the debut of his televised companion of the time, Ruby Sunday, who debuted in the same episode, notably depicting her travelling in the TARDIS even before her first official trip was depicted on television in Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"], broadcast two weeks after the strip's conclusion.
The Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby are the comic strips' current headlining characters at the time of writing.
