Tesseract (comic story)

Tesseract is the third story arc in the Doctor Who Ongoing series. It is divided into two chapters: Time Smash and a second chapter (title yet to be revealed).

Summary
While the Doctor gives his new companions, Emily Winter and Matthew Finnegan, a tour of the TARDIS, the vessel is invaded by a number of dimension-hopping aliens.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Matthew Finnegan
 * Emily Winter
 * Acari soldiers
 * Unnamed (as yet) female leader
 * Tef'Aree
 * Martha Jones (cameo)

The TARDIS

 * The Doctor describes the TARDIS as "a box of cubes" with each cube shuffling around if the box is shaken.
 * There are apparently many console rooms in the TARDIS. (Possibly contradicting the "desktop theme" comment in DW: Time Crash, or perhaps a simple reference to there being auxiliary control rooms such as the one introduced in DW: The Masque of Mandragora.)
 * Some aspects of the interior remain as it looked in the classic series, including white rooms with roundels, a garden (DW: Logopolis), industrial-looking corridors (DW: The Invasion of Time), and a cathedral-like room (DW: Doctor Who TV movie). Of this last, the Doctor acknowledges that he hasn't been in that room for awhile.
 * In addition, Adric's room still exists within the TARDIS.

Other

 * Martha has recently married and is still with UNIT. Whether this marriage is to Tom Milligan or to Mickey Smith is left unstated (though as the comic was written before the broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part Two it likely refers to the marriage with Milligan as her marriage to Mickey hadn't yet been revealed. Marta never did get married to Tom Milligan she got married to Mickey

Timeline

 * Tesseract occurs soon after: IDW: Fugitive (possibly immediately after as Emily changes out of her 1920s dress in part 1), and at some point after the events of DW: Planet of the Dead as the Doctor references Lady Christina.
 * The reference to Jack's sonic blaster and the veiled reference to River Song indicates that the Doctor hasn't yet met her (at the time this story was published it was unknown when the Doctor first met River (from River's perspective).