The Weeping Angels of Mons (comic story)

 was the third story of the Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor comic strip series published in 2015.

Summary
When Gabby and the Doctor arrive by accident in No Man’s Land in July, 1916, they’re met by Corporal Jamie Colqhoun – a soldier who knows from bitter experience that there are worse things than the Jerries out in the rat-strewn trenches.

Things that drift through the smoke of a thousand cannon shells, and move only when you look away. Shadows that flit over artillery-blasted field hospitals and throw their terrifying wings over the living. Statues that steal your life in an instant.

The Weeping Angels.

But in a conflict where the life of young men is cheap, and thousands die every day – are the Angels actually offering salvation?

Trapped in the midst of a flock of starving Angels, the Doctor faces his most challenging and terrifying moral dilemma yet!

Part One
21st August 1914: Jamie Colqhoun and Harry, both members of the Scottish regiment, have only been in the war for three weeks, but have recently been moved to Mons, Belgium, and are on a reconnaisance mission. Jamie writes a letter to his sister Jeanie, who Harry wants to propose to. Turning away to look at a photograph of her, he suddenly notices movement, and aims his gun towards a statue and fires. He moves his head around to warn Jamie, only to then be killed by the Weeping Angel.

July 1916: The TARDIS materialises in No Man's Land on the Western Front in Germany. Gabby is taken aback because it is not beautiful history as she imagined, only desolation. Uncovering a gas mask, the Doctor realises that it is the First World War. Gabby and the Doctor run back to the TARDIS as mines go off. However, the TARDIS is caught in the blast - along with the Doctor, who is knocked out.

In the trenches, Jamie, now a corporal, is writing to Jeanie about the war. Captain Fairbairn has recently arrived, whilst the soldiers are preparing for the Big Push into the Somme. Jamie's faith has been crushed by war, seeing not Heaven but Hell. The regiment are surprised to find Gabby and the Doctor in the trench., and, although believing them to be spies, take the Doctor to a field hospital be looked over by a military chaplain who is surprised to learn he has two hearts. Suddenly, a soldier blinded during the battle awakens and screams: "Don't blink!" He rips the bandages off to reveale eyelids forcefully sewn open, likely by the patient himself.

Two soldiers, Manny Simmons and Big Wullie Cairns, smoke a cigarette outside besides a statue and discuss how the war has affected them. Walking away from the statue, they turn to find the statue has moved and is lurching towards Manny...

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Gabby Gonzalez
 * Jamie Colqhoun
 * Weeping Angels

Continuity

 * The Tenth Doctor previously previously encountered the Weeping Angels in London in 2007. (TV: Blink)
 * The Doctor references a school of Sontarans who were executed for painting.
 * Gabby calls the TARDIS a "steampunk nightmare."
 * The Doctor references the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
 * Gabby references their first adventure, "an artist who deals in homicidal sculptures." (COMIC: The Arts in Space)
 * The Doctor is wearing black converses.
 * Jamie references participating in the 1914 Christmas Day truce, sharing cigarettes and photographs.
 * Gabby doesn't know why she can understand German, but the Doctor explains that it is because of the TARDIS' telepathic circuits.