A Date to Remember (comic story)

A Date to Remember (Part One)
Expecting the TARDIS to arrive at Christmas 2009, Rose is delighted to find its spring in Perfect Paris. It’s all there; shopping, people watching, sight seeing at the Louvre, croissants and hot chocolate, chips and ketchup and mime artists bearing flowers. But all is not as it seems. The people are uncommunicative and keep disappearing and unobtrusive robot guards are everywhere. When a group of resistance fighters cause havoc in the square, the robot guards attack with containment cubes while Rose is snatched and dragged through a portal that opens up in front of the Doctor.

Snow Fakes (Part Two)
On the other side of the portal that was created by the Resistance using a glitch in the system, Rose finds herself in the 'real' Paris. The resistance fighters led by Jean-Paul and Esme are determined to destroy The Facade, a computer programme that enhances peoples perceptions in and of Perfect Paris. Everything Rose and the Doctor had seen was a synthetic or carefully controlled construction. Fighting for a return of 'reality', the Resistance has obtained and uses a computer virus that causes The Façade to break down. As the 'real' replaces the 'unreal', a control room is exposed where a human operator connected by a drip, has become enslaved to the Facade maintaining it since he was a child, a slave to the machine that would create the perfect city for people to live in. Once freed the work of rebuilding the city begins

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Rose Tyler
 * Jean-Paul
 * Esme
 * The Facade Operator

Original Print Details (Publication with page count and closing captions)

 * 1) DWA Issue 18 (6 pages) CAN THE DOCTOR GET ROSE BACK? FIND OUT NEXT ISSUE!
 * 2) DWA Issue 19 (6 pages) JOIN THE DOCTOR FOR A BRAND NEW ADVENTURE NEXT ISSUE!

Continuity

 * Once again in Paris the Doctor visits the Louvre to view the Mona Lisa painting having previously visited it in DW: City of Death.
 * Rose Tyler's appreciation of chips and ketchup (although not particularly French cuisine!), is evidenced several times in this strip.
 * The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to tamper with The Facade's information points and create a localised point of 'reality'.

Timeline

 * This story occurs after DWAM: Gangster's Paradise
 * This story occurs before DW: Love & Monsters