Garbage Day! (comic story)

 is a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2012.

Summary
The Doctor arrives during the closing countdown to the launch of Clean-up Day – when an army of automated Garbage-bots are turned over live to remove all rubbish for a cleaner future. But given the freedom to decide what is rubbish the Gar-bots include the humans (which they detect to be covered in germs), and begin a clear-up. The Doctor disguising himself as rubbish, gets collected and taken to the sorting centre where he discovers the Gar-bots central processor and re-programmes their definition of rubbish. As a result of the Doctor’s tinkering the Gar-bots turn on Earth other. People are freed from the rubbish collected (including a guy called ‘Ray’ and the Doctor reflects that a world without friends would be ‘rubbish!’

Named characters

 * The Doctor
 * Ray

Original print details

 * Publication with page count and closing captions
 * 1) DWA 291 (4 pages) DON’T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity

 * The Doctor mentions he likes fans and even considered to be a fan himself of the writer Charles Dickens (The Unquiet Dead)