The Eighth Doctor Canon: The Comic Strips

Title

Medium

Companions

Notes

Doctor Who

TV by Matthew Jacobs

Grace

First appearance of Doctor Grace Holloway.

 

Features the Master.

 

After this adventure, the Doctor’s timeline diverges into three separate continuities: the novels; the audio adventures; and the comic strips.  Some adventures occur for the Doctor in all three realities, some do not.  Below is an account of the ‘comic strip universe’.

Travelling Alone

The Dying Days

New Adventure by Lance Parkin

Benny

The Brigadier

The Doctor is reunited with Bernice Summerfield and the Brigadier.

 

Features the Ice Warriors.

Shada

Webcast/Audio adapted from a story by Douglas Adams.

Romana

K9 (Mark II)

The Doctor returns to Gallifrey and briefly reunites with Romana and K9 (Mark II) to solve the paradox of Shada, an adventure he remembers having, but also doesn’t remember having (referring to the cancelled TV story, Shada, from Season 17, starring Tom Baker).

 

Features Gallifrey.

Model Train Set

Short Story / Audio by Jonathan Blum

 

The Doctor is alone.

 

Released as a short story and also on audio cassette, read by Sophie Aldred.

Stacy and Ssard

Dreadnought

Comic Strip by Gary Russell

Stacy

First appearance of Stacy Townsend.

 

Features the Cybermen.

Descendance

Comic Strip by Gary Russell

Stacy

Ssard

First appearance of Ssard, an Ice Warrior.

 

Features the Ice Warriors.

Ascendance

Comic Strip by Gary Russell

Stacy

Ssard

Continues the story begun in Descendance.

Perceptions

Comic Strip by Gary Russell

Stacy

Ssard

 

Coda

Comic Strip by Gary Russell

Stacy

Ssard

This story features the final appearances of Stacy and Ssard as the Doctor’s companions.

DWM Season 1: The Fire and Brimstone Arc

Endgame

Comic Strip by Alan Barnes

Izzy

First appearance of Izzy ‘Somebody’.

 

Features the Celestial Toymaker.

The Keep

Comic Strip by Alan Barnes

Izzy

 

A :Life of Matter and Death

Comic Strip by Alan Barnes

Izzy

 

Fire and Brimstone

Comic Strip by Alan Barnes

Izzy

Features the Daleks.

 

Features the Threshold

DWM Season 2: The Ninth Doctor Arc

By Hook or by Crook

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

 

Tooth and Claw

Comic Strip by Alan Barnes

Izzy

Fey

First appearance of Fey Truscott-Sade

The Final Chapter

Comic Strip by Alan Barnes

Izzy

Fey

Features Shayde.

 

Features Gallifrey.

 

First appearance of the ‘9th Doctor’ when the Doctor apparently regenerates.

Wormwood

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

Fey

Features Shayde.

 

Features the Threshold.

 

The ‘9th Doctor is revealed to be Shayde in disguise and the 8th Doctor is alive and well.

 

A dying Shayde merges with Fey, to form a new being, Feyde.  Feyde departs.

DWM Season 3: The Glorious Dead Arc

Happy Deathday

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

 

The Fallen

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

Grace

The Doctor is reunited with Grace Holloway.

The Road to Hell

Comic Strip by Alan Barnes

Izzy

First appearance of Katsuro.

TV Action

Comic Strip by Alan Barnes

Izzy

Features Beep the Meep.

The Company of Thieves

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

Kroton

First appearance of Kroton, a Cyberman with emotions.

The Glorious Dead

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

Kroton

Kroton departs.

 

Features the Master.

 

Features Katsuro.

DWM Season 4: The Destrii Arc

The Autonomy Bug

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

 

Ophidius

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

First appearance of Destrii, a human/fish hybrid.

 

At the close of the story, Izzy has swopped bodies with Destrii and sees her own body destroyed when Destrii is apparently obliterated.

Beautiful Freak

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

 

The Way of All Flesh

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

 

Children of the Revolution

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

Features the Daleks.

 

Izzy is kidnapped at the close of this story by aliens searching for Destrii.

Uroboros

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Feyde

Features Destrii.

 

The Doctor tracks down Destrii who is alive and well and is reunited with Feyde whilst searching for Izzy.

Oblivion

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Izzy

Feyde

Features Destrii

 

Izzy regains her real body and departs.

 

Destrii sets off into time and space with Jodafra, her uncle.

Where Nobody Knows Your Name

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Frobisher

Neither the Doctor nor Frobisher realize they have met each other.

Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game

Comic Strip by Gareth Roberts

 

 

The Power of Thoueris

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

 

 

The Curious Case of Spring-Heeled Jack

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

 

 

The Land of Happy Endings

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

John

Gillian

This story is actually a dream the Doctor is having, but is a nostalgic visit to the early Hartnell comic strips.

Bad Blood

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Destrii

Features Destrii and Jodafra.

 

A badly wounded Destrii is taken into the TARDIS at the close of the story after Jodafra abandons her.

Sins of the Fathers

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Destrii

Destrii acquires a holographic projector which allows her to look human.

The Flood

Comic Strip by Scott Gray

Destrii

Features the Cybermen.

 

Final appearance of Destrii.

 

Final appearance of Eighth Doctor in comic strip form.