Space in Dimension Relative and Time (comic story)

 was the fifth story of the Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor comic story series published in 2014.

Publisher's summary
The Doctor is the only one who realises that the flow of time in the vortex has been disrupted, but can he uncover the cosmic culprit and put causality back on the right track — before Alice and her fellow TARDIS travellers are de-aged right out of existence?

Plot
The Eleventh Doctor and Alice Obiefune dangle their feet in open space sitting within the TARDIS' door. Alice mourns the death of John Jones. She proposes to go back and avert it. The Doctor replies that it is not possible, that life always moves forward.

The Doctor's figure is being sucked out through the open door of the TARDIS. He is barely holding by the TARDIS control console with one hand. At the same time, a massive figure in a space suite is near the console seemingly unperturbed by the decompression. The Doctor's figure moans in the manner characteristic of ARC and manages to pull down a lever. The door begin to close. "ARC is alive," announces the faux Doctor. An inner door opens, and the real Doctor appears at the top of the stairs with Alice, a broken geranium pot lying behind them on the floor. Alice is happy that ARC succeeded and they are out of the Time Vortex. She apologises for hitting the Doctor on the head to save his life. But the Doctor feels that something is wrong. He demands an explanation from ARC, who still looks like him. ARC is confused.

A black vortex is being sucked out of the TARDIS through the open door. ARC in the Doctor's form is barely holding by the console. Through a pothole in the inner door Alice watches the TARDIS control room while the Doctor lies on the floor near the broken geranium pot. Alice sees that ARC has been successful in venting the black hole out into space. She shouts that ARC should hit the lever to shut the door. The Doctor comes to and realises that time is running backwards in incremental jumps. As he asks Alice why she knocked him out, he feels another jump back approaching.

to be extended

Characters

 * Eleventh Doctor
 * Alice Obiefune
 * John Jones
 * ARC
 * Nimon

Original print details
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Continuity

 * Alice mentions that her mother died recently. (COMIC: After Life)
 * After Jones is disintegrated by the Nimon, the Doctor says, "Well done, mate." He would say these same words after the destruction of Handles on Trenzalore. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
 * The Doctor refers to the use of a vortex manipulator as being like a drug addiction. (TV: The Big Bang)
 * The Doctor declares the planet and people of Datastore 8 are under his protection. He has and will make similar statements about Earth and Trenzalore. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, The Eleventh Hour, The Time of the Doctor, Flatline)