Second paragraph of third chapter:Theodore hadn't stopped apologising for the last mile, even though Yaz kept insisting it was unnecessary - if she hadn't clicked that, outside the protection of the TARDIS, any update to K9's systems would overwrite the data, then he couldn't possibly be expected to know.
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The third section is a comic, of which these are the second and third frames:

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Second paragraph of third chapter:Right now, it was hurtling on a course towards Westminster Abbey on the bright, frost-flowered morning of 15 January 1559. After their tangle with sinister robots and exploding bubble-wrap at Kerblam!, the whole fam favoured a trip into a tech-free era, far enough back to not jeopardise the existence of any close ( Read more... )

Second frame of third chapter:

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Second paragraph of third story ("Einstein and the Doctor", by Jo Cotterill):‘I can't believe we're going to meet Einstein,’ Graham said, his eyes alight. ‘What a legend.’
A collection of six stories by different authors, each bringing the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends, and sometimes earlier incarnations too, into contact with historical ( Read more... )

Second frame of third part:

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Second paragraph of third chapter:Locking the Hypergreen, she made her way up the concrete stairs to the top floor. She knocked loudly on a door painted a monstrous shade of bright pink. After a few moments there was a muffled curse and the sound of movement from inside. The door opened and an attractive blonde in a very short bathrobe appeared, ( Read more... )

The creators of Doctor Who comics were for a long time the most male of the various parts of the Whoniverse. I noted in a history of the 1964-79 strips that the first mention of women in a creative capacity was on page 570 of a 603-page book, on work done in the 1990s. The first woman credited in the main Doctor Who Magazine comics series was Annie ( Read more... )

Well. When I did my first ten-day update on 27 March last year, it seemed then that we would have a grim few weeks and then be back to normal by late summer. Obviously, that did not happen. And it seems somehow appropriate that 40 weeks after that Friday at the end of the first full week of lockdown, it's New Year's Day and we are as uncertain as ( Read more... )

Third section of 2021 Doctor Who annual (click to embiggen):

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