If you thought you’d have to attend till subsequent yr to see the primary story for David Tennant’s shock return as Doctor Who’s 14th Doctor, then assume once more: his first journey is already right here, simply not within the format you have been anticipating.

Today’s launch of Issue 584 of Doctor Who Magazine additionally sees the beginning of a significant new experiment: for the very first time in its historical past, the journal’s month-to-month cartoon will likely be part of present Doctor Who continuity. Set instantly after the climax of “The Power of the Doctor,” which noticed Jodie Whittaker’s thirteenth Doctor regenerate into the acquainted face of David Tennant, the brand new comedian, penned by Alan Barnes and illustrated by Lee Sullivan, will present the 14th Doctor’s first story, as they try to find who they’re and why they carry the face of a former incarnation. The story will run for 12 months, every half releasing in each month-to-month challenge of DWM till the sixtieth Anniversary specials air subsequent November, presumably selecting up the place the comedian will depart off.

“From day one, I wanted to increase ties between the show and the magazine,” Davies mentioned in a press release accompanying the most recent challenge’s launch. “I love it when we’re in sync! A lot of people will be thinking, David’s not the real Doctor, he’s a trick, an illusion, a flashback. But no. He’s real. And DWM can help us underline that.”

Davies is an avowed life-long reader of the journal, and beforehand contributed a daily column to it whereas he was Doctor Who’s showrunner from 2005 to 2010—a column he’ll now return to from DWM #584 onwards. Time will inform simply how a lot the brand new comedian will really matter when Doctor Who returns to TV screens in 2023, however given Davies’ lengthy needs to have a cohesive Doctor Who transmedia empire—needs he would possibly find a way to really act on on this new period—it wouldn’t be too stunning to see the tentative first steps for it taken by bringing the 14th Doctor’s very first story to the pages of DWM.

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