Beneath the Waves (comic story)

 was the fourteenth story of the Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic series, published in 2017.

Summary
Reunited with his old friend Hattie Munroe, the Doctor takes her for the best fish and chips in the galaxy, in a sleepy seaside town in the 1970s. But there's something ancient and evil beneath the waves, something that has mired its twisted tentacles into the local people, something that weaves itself into Hattie's dreams and drags itself up onto land in mounds of shambling seaweed.

Can the Doctor and Hattie get to the bottom of a cosmological horror before it devours them – and wipes the town off the map?

Part one
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Characters

 * Twelfth Doctor
 * Hattie Munroe

New Oceana

 * Judoon
 * Sontaran
 * Catkind
 * Silurian
 * Vigil
 * Vinvocci
 * Zygon
 * Quarks

The Twist

 * Female interviewer

1989

 * Mike
 * Doris
 * Mavis
 * Dr Brown
 * Woman

Worldbuilding

 * The Doctor visits New Oceana.
 * The Doctor invents a transpsychograph-u-lator.
 * The newspaper that the Doctor reads was established in 1885. It is the 37,154th publication.
 * The Doctor suggests to Hattie that she may one day collaborate with his "spoon playing self" who had "brilliant eyebrows, too."

Original print details
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Continuity

 * The Doctor refers to the 1970s as "a bit of a golden age." This is likely a tongue-in-cheek reference to Mike Yates' betrayal and break down, caused by a wish for a "golden age." (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
 * When Mavis hits the Shambler with her cane, the Doctor quips that he loves Northerners, and "used to be one, once." (TV: Rose)