The Dalek Project (comic story)

The Dalek Project was BBC Books' second original graphic novel. Originally scheduled for publication in the autumn of 2009, it originally featured the then-current Tenth Doctor. Due to some narrative similarities to the then-in-production Victory of the Daleks, however, its publication was delayed until September 2012 — by which time it had to be reworked so as to accommodate the Eleventh Doctor.

Publishers summary
A stunning new graphic novel, featuring the Doctor as played by Matt Smith.

It's the height of the Great War and Hellcombe Hall is a house full of mystery: locked doors, forbidden rooms, dustsheets covering guilty secrets, and ghostly noises frightening the servants.

Most mysterious of all, the drawing-room seems to open directly onto a muddy, corpse-filled trench on the Western Front. ..

Arriving at this stately home, the Doctor meets Lord Hellcombe, an armaments manufacturer who has a new secret weapon he believes will win the war: he calls it ‘the Dalek’.

Soon, the Doctor and his new friends are in a race against time to prevent the entire Western Front from becoming part of the Dalek Project!

Plot
2017 - North Eastern France a century after the Great War. Two archeologists, Jules and Guillaume, uncover a Dalek saucer buried in the ground. They attach a power cable to it to get past the door. However, one of the Daleks inside is revived. It exterminates Guillaume. Jules manages to escape but is put in shock.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Daleks
 * Mary Carter
 * Corporal Anderson
 * Lord Hellcombe

Continuity

 * A Dalek on low power attempts to kill Jules using its Manipulator arm the same way the Dalek killed Simmons in TV: Dalek.
 * The Doctor dons a Panama hat and claims "Panama hats are cool", as he does with his bow tie (TV: The Eleventh Hour onwards) and fezzes (TV: The Big Bang onwards) among other objects.