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|range = DWM comic stories{{!}}DWM Comics
|number in range = 163
|image = The_Broken_Man.jpg
|image = The_Broken_Man.jpg
|series = [[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]
|series = [[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]
|doctor = Eleventh Doctor
|doctor = Eleventh Doctor
|companions = [[Amy Pond|Amy]], [[Rory Williams|Rory]]
|companions = [[Amy Pond|Amy]], [[Rory Williams|Rory]]
|enemy = [[Yuri Azarov]], the [[Mavora]], [[Sergal]]  
|featuring = Patrick Lake
|setting = [[Prague]], [[1989]]
|featuring2 = Hugo Wilding
|writer = [[Scott Gray]]
|featuring3 = Annabel Lake
|enemy = The [[Mavora Queen]], [[Yuri Azarov]]
|setting = [[Prague]], [[November]] [[1989]]
|writer = Scott Gray
|artist = [[Martin Geraghty]]
|artist = [[Martin Geraghty]]
|colourist = [[James Offredi]]
|colourist = [[James Offredi]]
|lettering = [[Roger Langridge]]
|lettering = [[Roger Langridge]]
|editor = [[Tom Spilsbury]], [[Peter Ware]]
|editor = [[Tom Spilsbury]], [[Peter Ware (editor)|Peter Ware]]
|publication = ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 451|451]] - [[DWM 454|454]]
|publication = [[DWM 451]] - [[DWM 454|454]]
|release date = [[30 August (releases)|30 August]] - [[November (releases)|November]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]]
|release date = 30 August - 15 November 2012
|publisher = Panini Comics
|publisher = Panini Comics
|format = Comic - 4 parts
|format = Comic
|prev = The Cornucopia Caper (comic story)
|prev = The Cornucopia Caper (comic story)
|next = Imaginary Enemies (comic story)
|next = Imaginary Enemies (comic story)
}}{{Comic stub}}
|epcount = 4|reprint = Hunters of the Burning Stone (graphic novel)
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic story featuring the [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. It marked the first appearance of the Lake family, who would return in the 50th anniversary comic strip special, ''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]''. Even though they would appear in the following story, this strip was the final story to feature Amy and Rory travelling with the Doctor.
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic story featuring the [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. It marked the first appearance of the Lake family, and was the final story to feature Amy and Rory travelling with the Doctor, though they would appear in [[Imaginary Enemies (comic story)|the following story]] without him.


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
[[Prague]], [[1989]]: [[Patrick Lake]] and his family are desperate to return to London, but Patrick is hiding a dark secret from his wife — he is a British [[spy]] working undercover to bring down [[Yuri Azarov]], a man whose rise to power leaves devastation for all. Patrick finds an ally in a traveller called the Doctor, a man whose name echoes throughout history, according to Patrick's associate [[Hugo Wilding]]. But the Doctor's attempt to discover the truth leaves Patrick's family — and Rory — at the mercy of Yuri and his sinister, inhuman, sidekick...
[[Prague]], [[1989]]: [[Patrick Lake]] and his family are desperate to return to London, but Patrick is hiding a dark secret from his wife — he is a British [[spy]] working undercover to bring down [[Yuri Azarov]], a man whose rise to power leaves devastation for all. Patrick finds an ally in a traveller called the [[Eleventh Doctor]], a man whose name echoes throughout history, according to Patrick's associate [[Hugo Wilding]]. But the Doctor's attempt to discover the truth leaves Patrick's family — and Rory — at the mercy of Yuri and his sinister, inhuman, sidekick...


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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* [[Amy Pond]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
* [[Rory Williams]]
* [[Rory Williams]]
* [[Rhoda Hoffman]]
* [[Saul Hoffman]]
* [[Yuri Azarov]]
* [[Gerhard Frankel]]
* The [[Mavora Queen]]
* [[Patrick Lake]]
* [[Patrick Lake]]
* [[Heather Lake]]
* [[Heather Lake]]
* [[Annabel Lake]]
* [[Annabel Lake]]
* [[Yuri Azarov]]
* [[Rhoda Hoffman]]
* [[Saul Hoffman]]
* [[Hugo Wilding]]
* [[Hugo Wilding]]
* [[Ambassador]] [[Golovkin]]
* [[Sergei]]
* [[Sergal]]
* [[Yehuda Loevy]]
* [[Carrington (The Broken Man)|Carrington]]
* [[Golovkin]]
* [[Vostok (The Broken Man)|Vostok]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* When talking about [[London]], [[Heather Lake]] mentions ''[[Coronation Street]]'', [[Hyde Park]], [[fish]] and [[chip]]s and [[Woolworths]] shops.
* When reminiscing about [[London]], [[Heather Lake]] mentions missing ''[[Coronation Street]]'', [[Hyde Park]], [[fish and chips]] and [[Woolworths]] shops.
* Rory was born in [[1989]].
* Among the minds that travelled to [[Prague]] where [[Franz Kafka]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] and [[Albert Einstein]].
* The Doctor claims to be Doctor Zhivago of the [[Party Security Directorate]] and the ambassador of [[Syldavia]].
* The Doctor claims to be "Doctor Zhivago" of the [[Party Security Directorate]] and Ambassador Ottokar of [[Syldavia]].
* References are made to the revolutions of 1989, the [[Poland|Polish]] and [[Hungary|Hungarian]] revolutions, the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]], [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] invasion of [[Afghanistan]], [[fixed point in time|fixed points in time]] and the [[Judaism|Jewish]] legend of the [[Golem of Prague]].
* The Doctor tells Rhoda that he, Amy and Rory are [[reporter]]s from the [[BBC (in-universe)|BBC]].
* [[Operation Broken Man]] is mentioned.
* Rhoda has ambitions to go to [[St Martin's College]] and see the [[Rembrandt Museum]] in [[Amsterdam]].
* Rhoda mentions [[St Martin's College]].
* During the revolutions of 1989, the [[Poland|Polish]] and [[Hungary|Hungarian]]s "opted out" of the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Berlin Wall]] was destroyed.
* Rory was born in [[1989]], with him quipping that his younger self is "sleeping in a [[cot]] in [[Leadworth]]" when the Doctor tells him they are in 1989.
* [[Karel Capek]] coined the word "[[robot]]" in [[1920]] Prague.
* Azarov's fake immigration to America is being handled under [[Operation Broken Man]].
* Amy compares herself to [[Joan Collins]] in her dress.
* Azarov shows disgust towards [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and the Soviets' retreat from [[Afghanistan]]
* Amy received [[Hallucinogenic lipstick]] in the post last [[Mother's Day]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This is the first Eleventh Doctor [[DWM]] strip that does not feature [[the TARDIS]].
* This is the first Eleventh Doctor ''DWM'' strip that does not feature [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor refers to the fall of the Berlin Wall on [[9 November]] [[1989]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Protect and Survive (audio story)|Protect and Survive]]'')
* Amy mentions that her favourite artist is [[Vincent van Gogh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)|Vincent and the Doctor]]'')
* The Doctor wears the evening outfit that he wore at Amy and Rory's wedding on [[26 June]] [[2010]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') He also wore this outfit in Berlin in [[1938]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'') and Paris in [[1858]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Screams of Death]]'')
* The Doctor says that [[Prague]] in 1989 is not a fixed point in time and that anything could happen. He previously said the same about Earth in [[2020]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'')
* The Doctor mentions his latest visit to [[Athens]] in [[BC#5th century B.C.|410 BC]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Chains of Olympus]]'')
* When questioned by Patrick about his identity, the Doctor hands him a top secret file with information about his relationship with [[Winston Churchill]], and a picture of him and Churchill is shown. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'')
* Amy mentions that her favourite artist is [[Vincent van Gogh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]'')
* When interrogated by Yuri, Rory mentions being [[Rory Williams (Auton)|a plastic Roman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
* The Doctor says that [[Prague]] in 1989 is not a fixed point in time and that anything could happen. He previously said the same about Earth in [[2020]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
* The Doctor once again wears the evening outfit that he wore to Amy and Rory's wedding on [[26 June]] [[2010]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') having previously in Berlin in [[1938]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') and Paris in [[1858]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Screams of Death (comic story)|The Screams of Death]]'')
* When the Doctor discovers that they are in 1989, Rory says that his younger self "is in a cot in [[Leadworth]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Amy's Choice]]'', ''[[The Big Bang]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
* Amy calls Rory "stupid face". ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')
* Amy calls Rory "stupid face". ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')
* The Doctor recalls finding psychic metal during his visit to [[Athens]] in [[BC#5th century B.C.|410 BC]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Chains of Olympus]]'')
* When questioned by Patrick about his identity, the Doctor hands him a top secret file with information about his relationship with [[Winston Churchill]], and a picture of The Doctor and Churchill is shown. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')
* When interrogated by Yuri, Rory mentions being a [[Rory Williams (Auton)|plastic Roman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' / ''[[The Big Bang]]'')


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