The Love Invasion (comic story)

The Love Invasion was the first comic strip to feature the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler. It also featured a cameo of former companions Ben Jackson and Polly Wright, and revealed that Ben eventually proposed to Polly.

Summary
The Doctor takes Rose to London in the year 1966, where they find beautiful girls wandering the streets, doing good on behalf of a group called Lend-a-Hand. The Doctor notes the girls don’t smell human. He becomes concerned when he discovers that someone is preparing to build affordable family housing on the fields where Rose’s council estate is supposed to be built.

Characters

 * Ninth Doctor
 * Rose Tyler
 * Mr Love
 * Shirley Gilbert
 * Charlotte Cobb
 * Peter Cobb
 * Igrix
 * Ben Jackson
 * Polly Wright

Continuity

 * There is a poster on the wall of a pub reading "Bad Wolf", a reference to the story arc resolved in TV: The Parting of the Ways.
 * Igrix leaves his ship on top of the Post Office Tower. This had earlier in the same year housed the computer WOTAN in TV: The War Machines. The Doctor even makes the comment, "That, Rose, is one unlucky building."