Pond Life (comic story)

 was a Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor comic strip published in 2014.

Summary
Rory objects to River going on a date with the Doctor.

Plot
Amy Pond and Rory Williams are cuddling on the couch when River Song walks downstairs unusually dressed up. Amy compliments River's clothes and asks where she's going and River explains she's going on a date. Rory protests and asks who she's going on a date with. River opens the door to reveal the TARDIS under a street lamp. Rory again objects the date and River dismisses his protests as the Doctor pops out of the TARDIS and excitedly greets everyone. He apologizes for being late due to "a giant space dinosaur" in the Dundra system and proceeds to invite River aboard, despite a fire flaring inside the TARDIS. He promises her parents he'll get River back in one piece and Amy cheerfully tells them to be back by eleven.

Characters

 * Eleventh Doctor
 * Amy Pond
 * Rory Williams
 * River Song

Original print details
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Continuity

 * When Amy asks where River's going she replies with her trademark, "Spoilers." (TV: Silence in the Library, et al)
 * Amy and Rory are aware that River is their daughter but are surprised by River going on a date with the Doctor, setting this after TV: A Good Man Goes to War but before TV: The Wedding of River Song from their perspective.
 * The Doctor mentions being delayed in the Dundra system. He previously visited the Dundra system on Alfava Metraxis at the crash of the Byzantium. (TV: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone)
 * River Song recalls the Doctor's TARDIS is a Type 40 mark, (TV: The Deadly Assassin onwards) a "vintage" model.