Wintervention (comic story)

London 1997 and the Doctor expects to arrive in spring — but it's snowing hard and everything is covered in snow and ice. Exploring, they encounter giant green Abominable aliens carrying people off. The Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald escape the aliens by sledging towards the frozen Thames on a wheelie bin, where they find in the ice a spacecraft. Inside is like a freezer with its own icy larder full of human bodies. The machine has frozen London instantly and the Doctor needs to reverse its polar polarity. It is Clara who suggests plugging it in to the TARDIS and very soon the freeze is undone with the snow actually falling upwards. As spring arrives suddenly in London the alien invaders are thwarted by the heat having thrived in the early freezing conditions.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Clara went sledging in 2007.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

There is a reference to needing to "reverse the polar polarity" – a nod to the Third Doctor's frequently referenced "reversing the polarity" phrase.
Unusually this comic story's final frame is captioned "The End" and not the usual "More adventures next week".

Original print details[[edit] | [edit source]]

Publication with page count and closing captions

DWA 345 (4 pages) The End

No reprints to date.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Judoon also had the technology to send Earth's precipitation upwards. (TV: Smith and Jones)
The Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswin Oswald had previously encountered problems with snow. (TV: The Snowmen)