Buying Time (comic story)

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Buying Time

Key crew

Publisher:

Immediate Media Company London Limited

Editor:

Natalie Barnes

Writer:

Trevor Baxendale

Artist:

John Ross

Colourist:

Alan Craddock

Release details

Printed in:

DWA 266

Release date:

26 April 2012

Format:

Comic - 1 part (4 pages)

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Buying Time was a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2012.

Summary

The Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams arrive on the commercial asteroid of Primo Temp, a trading world at the centre of the Amron Ho galaxy. The Doctor is on a quest to buy some time. Two Gnaa traders, Jakrit and Praal, are trying to sell a tachyon-drive unit from a Horologic-class history cruiser — the last one in existence, found in a time pocket on the edge of the Skrawn Inheritance.

The Doctor rubbishes their claims that it has been refurbished and fitted with a brand new Zeiton-7 crystal. When Praal offers to demonstrate it with a trip twenty minutes back in time, they discover that the Zeiton 7 crystal is cracked: a crack that appears to be centuries old! The Doctor suddenly appears, his absence only just being noticed, and explains that when the machine was being demonstrated he used it to go back further in time.

Returning to the point when the ship first crashed, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to shatter the crystal and return to the present failed demonstration, finding the last tachyon-drive unit now properly decommissioned. On the way back to the TARDIS, Amy poses the question, "How could the Doctor have taken the TARDIS back with him when he used the travel unit in order to return?", to which the Doctor replies that he doesn't intend to reveal all his secrets!

Characters

References

Among the items for sale at Primo Temp were blue crystals from Metebelis III, oils from Halalala 7, apples from Eden and a Taran wood beast fang.

Notes

Amy's question in the final frame and the Doctor's reply gives a kind of resolution in this time travel paradox tale.

Original print details

Publication with page count and closing captions

DWA 266 (4 pages) DON'T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!

No reprints to date.

Continuity

The tachyon-drive unit uses a Zeiton-7 crystal, introduced in TV: Vengeance on Varos.
The ship was recovered at the edge of the Skrawn Inheritance, a reference to COMIC: The Skrawn Inheritance.

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 == References ==
+* Among the items for sale at [[Primo Temp]] were [[Metebelis crystal|blue crystals]] from [[Metebelis III]], oils from [[Halalala 7]], [[apple]]s from [[Eden (planet)|Eden]] and a [[Taran wood beast]] fang.
-* The Doctor's [[sonic screwdriver]] is used when the Doctor travels back in time to shatter the [[Zeiton-7]] crystal, rendering it useless.
-* Among the items for sale at [[Primo Temp]] were [[Metebelis crystal|blue crystals]] from [[Metebelis III]], oils from [[Halalala 7]], [[apple]]s from [[Eden]] and a [[Taran wood beast]] fang.
 == Notes ==
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 == Continuity ==
-* Several of the items for sale reference earlier stories. [[Metebelis crystal]]s were first introduced in [[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'', [[Eden]] is likely a reference to the titular planet of [[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare of Eden (TV story)|Nightmare of Eden]]'' and the [[Taran wood beast]] briefly appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[The Androids of Tara (TV story)|The Androids of Tara]]''.
 * The tachyon-drive unit uses a [[Zeiton-7]] crystal, introduced in [[TV]]: ''[[Vengeance on Varos (TV story)|Vengeance on Varos]]''.
 * The ship was recovered at the edge of the [[Kolox Nebula|Skrawn Inheritance]], a reference to [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Skrawn Inheritance (comic story)|The Skrawn Inheritance]]''.

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