The Pestilent Heart (comic story)

 was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine in 2016. It featured the return of Jess Collins, who last appeared in COMIC: The Highgate Horror, and also introduced her her parents, Devina and Llyod, and her younger brother, Maxwell. Most notably, the ending marked the beginning of a short story arc in which the Doctor moves in with the Collins family while he waits for his TARDIS to repair itself following a system overload.

Plot
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Characters

 * Twelfth Doctor
 * Jess Collins
 * Lloyd Collins
 * Devina Collins
 * Simon Layton
 * Moan'na
 * Maxwell Collins
 * Daisy
 * Brian
 * Te'kona

Worldbuilding

 * Lloyd and Jess plan to see the latest Carry On film, with Lloyd looking forward to seeing Sid James and Barbara Windsor in it.
 * Lloyd is taken to Kings College Hospital.
 * Moan'na landed in London shortly before the Bubonic plague of 1665.
 * The Doctor uses the phrase, "Up Shobogan creek without a warp drive".
 * When thinking about his family, Lloyd envisions Maxwell wearing a Spider-Man shirt.
 * As he skydives out of the TARDIS, the Doctor yells, "Geronimo", saying he is quoting "a wise man".

Original print details

 * (Publication with page count and closing captions)


 * DWM 501 (12 pages) Next: Terror in the Dark!
 * DWM 502 (12 pages) Next: Sacrifice in the Sky!
 * DWM 503 (12 pages) Next: Moving In!

Continuity

 * Jess recalls the death of her boyfriend Dave and the defeat of the Corvids by the Doctor and Clara six months previously. (COMIC: The Highgate Horror)
 * The Doctor has no memory of Clara Oswald. (TV: Hell Bent) He does, however, remember the events of his previous encounter with Jess. (COMIC: The Highgate Horror)
 * The Doctor once again tries to use "Funkenstein" as an aliases. (TV: The Zygon Invasion)
 * The Doctor is as irritated by "domestics" as his ninth incarnation was. (TV: Aliens of London)