Day of Reckoning
Details for the multi-platform Doctor Who adventure Doom's Day have been released
Doom is the finest time-travelling assassin in the cosmos. But Death - as in literal Death is on her tail and she's only got 24 hours and a vortex manipulator to find the Doctor and save herself. But a lot can happen in 24 hours...
Spread across games, comics, audio dramas and more, Doom played by Sooz Kempner - will meet a host of familiar faces on her journey, which begins this month.
BOOK
Extraction Point, a novel by MG Harris featuring the Second and Ninth Doctors and the Slitheen will be released on 10 August. It also promises an appearance from a Kraal and a visit to Satellite Five.
AUDIO DRAMAS
Four From Doom's Day - a collection of, you've guessed it, four different stories from Doom's Day - will see the return of Ian and Barbara, the Ice Warriors and Brian the Ood.
The four stories - "The Steel Cascade", "The Martian Dilemma", "An Ood Halloween" and "Dark Space" - will be released by BBC Audio on 24 August. There's a very swish vinyl version available from Demon Records.
Big Finish also has a set of stories due for release in September. The work of writers Jacqueline Rayner, Robert Valentine, Simon Clark and Lizzie Hopley, the titles are Dawn of Everlasting Peace, A Date with Destiny, The Howling Wolves Of Xan-Phear and The Crowd. Further details are TBC.
GAMES
There are two Doom's Day tie-in elements from East Side Games under the Doctor Who: Lost In Time umbrella.
I Am The Doctor sees Doom unexpectedly cross paths with the Doctor and K-9 on a space station besieged by marauding pirates.
In Wrong Place At The Right Time, Doom becomes the guardian of a civilian from an alien world.
COMICS
The Doom's Day saga kicks off in a 16-page comic strip that comes with the issue of Doctor Who Magazine out on 22 June. In the four instalments - "Target Selected", "The Plastic Population", "High Noon In Hollywood" and "The Horn Of A Dilemma" - Doom encounters familiar faces, Autons and the (wrong) Doctor.
Titan's comic adventure has Doom partnering with Missy in two issues out on 5 and 25 July.
Further parts of the Doom's Day storyline will be announced and released later in the year.
You can find out more - and discover the hour-by-hour story details - at doctorwho.tv/dooms-day.
Caption: Anyone fancy some swishy vinyl? Of course you do.
Caption: Two and Nine star in this novel.
Doctor Doom
Missy meets Doom in Titan Comics' contribution to Doom's Day, set at 06.00-07.00/08.00-09.00
Part of multi-platform extravaganza Doom's Day, Titan Comics' latest Doctor Who offering features Doom, a mysterious professional killer from the 51st Century, who is on a desperate mission to locate the Doctor.
"Doom is interesting because she appears very non-threatening, until she doesn't?" says Titan's regular Doctor Who scribe Jody Houser, who once again is partnered by artist Roberta Ingranata. "She is, after all, an assassin, and she's exceptionally good at her job. At the same time, at least in our comic, she's taking jobs to eliminate threats to possibly billions of beings. So at least in her eyes, she's the hero of the story."
With the prospect of her imminent death looming large on the horizon, Doom has only 24 hours to live unless she can track down the Doctor, although she instead ends up crossing paths with Missy. "Missy is just so much fun," laughs Houser. "And that's really been her main motivation in our stories. She's morally flexible and unpredictable because, at the end of the day, she does whatever catches her fancy the most. Some days it's conquering the universe and some days it's saving the universe with more panache than the Doctor, although she is actually working to be a better person at this point in her story."
Houser and Ingranata already have form with Missy, having spun her out into her own four-issue series in 2022, which guest-starred the Third and Twelfth Doctors. "This series serves as something of a sequel to our previous Missy mini-series," teases Houser. "You don't have to read that one to enjoy Doom's Day, but it definitely enriches it. And as in our previous series, Missy is doing her very best 'Doctor Who' impression."
Having penned the Thirteenth Doctor's flagship title before turning her hand to Missy, the Eighth and the Eleventh Doctors in Empire Of The Wolf and the Fugitive Doctor in Doctor Who: Origins, Houser has enjoyed the sheer variety of the renegade Time Lord's adventures. "We were able to have continuing character threads in the ongoing series, although we've done our best to continue that in the various miniseries;' she says. "I definitely do love playing with many different toys from the toybox, though."
Houser has also formed an instinctive creative rapport with Ingranata, whom she believes is at her understated best on the two-issue "A Doctor In The House?" "One of the things that Roberta is so good at is subtle expressions that say a lot, so expect to see some tension on the page between Doom and Missy;' says Houser, who also praises the work of colourist Warnia K Sahadewa and letterer Richard Starkings.
"I always know I can throw something weird and fantastical at Roberta, and she'll knock it out of the park, whether it's a strange new world, bizarre aliens or even silly costumes?' SJ
Doctor Who: Doom's Day issue one is out 5 July.
SCI-FACT! Jody Houser has previously written for Star Wars, Star Trek and Stranger Things comic spin-offs.
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