Convention Special (comic story)

Convention Special was a story published in Doctor Who Convention Special, a one-shot sold exclusively at the 2011 San Diego Comic Con. It was later reprinted in The Eleventh Doctor Archives: Volume 3.

Summary
The Doctor takes Amy and Rory to the San Diego Comic-Con so that they can meet Hamilton Wilson, author of the comic Captain Rocket. But Hamilton's work has been spread across the stars and now a small group of aliens want more of his stories. And they are willing to use any means necessary to get them.

Characters

 * Eleventh Doctor
 * Rory Williams
 * Amy Pond
 * Hamilton Wilson
 * Boy

Worldbuilding

 * Hamilton Wilson is the creator of Captain Rocket. Rory was a big fan of the comic while he was growing up.
 * NASA scientists included the first issue of Captain Rocket in all of their explorer probes.
 * The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver.
 * The aliens planned to use a Trylonian brain-drain machine. Trylonians had previously used one on them.

Continuity

 * The Doctor has met H. G. Wells (TV: Timelash) and Jane Austen (AUDIO: Frostfire)
 * The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald would later visit the San Diego Comic-Con in 2015. (COMIC: Selfie)
 * The Doctor says that Jane Austen is "not much of a kisser", Clara Oswald would later disagree with that fact. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)