Supremacy of the Cybermen (series)

Supremacy of the Cybermen was a mini-series of Doctor Who comics produced, and released, by Titan Publishing Group in 2016. The mini-series served as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Cybermen's debut appearance in the television episode The Tenth Planet, which was first broadcast between 8 - 29 October 1966.

Crossover between comic ranges
The comic story of the same name served as Supremacy of the Cybermen's main release. It was a five-part crossover between four of Titan Comics' other Doctor Who comic ranges:


 * Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor
 * Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor
 * Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor
 * Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor

Of these four ranges, Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comprised the core of Supremacy of the Cybermen 's narrative, containing the events that caused those that served as the other three ranges' involvement in the mini-series. In particular, the Twelfth Doctor's appearance in Supremacy of the Cybermen narratively occurred sometime between the television episodes Hell Bent and The Husbands of River Song, expanding on Rassilon's ultimate fate after he was exiled from Gallifrey in Hell Bent, and featuring a number of other characters from said story, including the Time Lords, the General, Ohila, and the Sisterhood of Karn. Gallifrey and Karn also returned, and the Eye of Harmony also made a reappearance.

Beyond the Twelfth Doctor's narrative, however, the Eleventh, Tenth, and Ninth Doctors also appeared in separate narrative scenarios within Supremacy of the Cybermen. The Eleventh Doctor travelled to prehistoric Earth with Alice Obiefune. The Tenth Doctor's scenario was set between the comic stories Vortex Butterflies and The Long Con, and featured him travelling with Gabby Gonzalez and Cindy Wu to the Cosmomart in the 24th century, before encountering the Sontarans and journeying to Sontar. Elsewhere, the Ninth Doctor, whose scenario occurred between the events of the comic stories Hacked and Doctormania, travelled with Rose Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness to the Cyber-Earth in 2006, with Jackie Tyler also returning.

Each of the Doctors' four narratives featured them and their companions (minus the Twelfth Doctor) encountering the Cybermen, and occurred in an alternate timeline created by Rassilon allying with an army of Cybermen based at the end of the universe and allowing them to invade all of time and space. The Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, along with their companions, each faced the Cybermen in scenarios which they were unable to overcome, to prevent them from assisting the Twelfth Doctor in defeating Rassilon and the Gallifreyan Cyber Fleet during their invasion of Gallifrey.

Prologues
In addition, Titan Publishing Group produced a series of nine short stories which served as prologues to Supremacy of the Cybermen 's main story. Each prologue was one page in length, and featured an incarnation of the Doctor, prior to the Ninth Doctor, encountering the Cybermen within the alternate timeline that served as Supremacy of the Cybermen 's main setting, also in scenarios that they were unable to overcome. These prologues featured several side characters from the eras of their respective Doctors; while most of these were companions of their respective Doctors, Prologue: The Third Doctor featured the "UNIT enemy" Master, and Prologue: The War Doctor featured the Moment.

The Cybermen
As part of Supremacy of the Cybermen 's celebration of the Cybermen's 50th anniversary, a large number of Cyberman variants were used across both the mini-series' main story and the nine prologues. Many of these variants were taken from television episodes, and included CyberMondans (from The Tenth Planet), the "Late" CyberFaction (from The Wheel In Space), CyberNomads (from Revenge of the Cybermen) CyberIsomorphs (from Silver Nemesis), the Cybus Cybermen (from Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel), and the Cybermen design which debuted in Nightmare in Silver.

Uniquely, the Cybermen of Prologue: The Eighth Doctor had their design taken from another comic story, resembling the Cybermen of the comic story Dreadnought. Prologue: The Fourth Doctor and Prologue: The War Doctor were unique in that they featured Cybermen whose designs were previously unused in any officially published stories; the former featured Cybermen resembling those which would have appeared in the cancelled Doctor Who 30th anniversary television episode, The Dark Dimension, while the latter featured Cybermen whose designs were initially produced by Millennium FX in 2005, as an early design for the Cybus Cybermen who would debut in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel.

In addition, several unique Cyberman designs also debuted in Supremacy of the Cybermen. A unique standard Cyberman design debuted in Prologue: The Sixth Doctor, who resembled sleeker Cybus Cybermen with various clock-like features (such as gear teeth on their shoulders and a clock face for a power cell). Supremacy of the Cybermen itself featured a unique design for the Cybermen faced by the Ninth Doctor in the form of the Cyber-Warriors, a highly-muscular variant, and a sleek, near-featureless design for a Cyber-Controller; a highly similar design was used for the Cyberman design envisioned by the Cyber-Controller as part of the Age of the Cyberiad. The story's Cyber-Leader resembled a Nightmare in Silver-style Cyberman, while its Cyber-helmet resembled that of the Cyber-Lord from the television episode The Next Doctor.

Prologues
{| class="fandom-table" !# !Title !Writer !Doctor !Featuring !Printed in !Released
 * 1
 * Prologue: The Eighth Doctor
 * rowspan=9|George Mann, Cavan Scott
 * 8th
 * Josie Day, Cybermen, Cybermats
 * rowspan=2|4D 4
 * rowspan=3|13th July 2016
 * 2
 * Prologue: The Fourth Doctor
 * N/A
 * 4th
 * K9, Cybermen
 * N/A
 * N/A
 * 3
 * Prologue: The First Doctor
 * N/A
 * 1st
 * Susan, Ian, Barbara, CyberMondans
 * 10DY2 12
 * N/A
 * 4
 * Prologue: The Sixth Doctor
 * N/A
 * 6th
 * Mel, Cybermen
 * 11DY2 11
 * 21 July 2016
 * 6th
 * Mel, Cybermen
 * 11DY2 11
 * 21 July 2016