Harvest of the Daleks (comic story)

Harvest of the Daleks

Main setting:

Gosligi's Branch

Key crew

Publisher:

Titan Publishing Group

Editor:

Jessica Burton

Writer:

Richard Dinnick

Artist:

Giorgia Sposito

Letterer:

Comicraft's Sarah Jacobs and John Roshell

Release details

Printed in:

The Many Lives of Doctor Who

Release date:

26 September 2018

Format:

Comic - 1 part

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Harvest of the Daleks was the thirteenth story of The Many Lives of Doctor Who, published in 2018.

Summary

No matter the time, the place, or the face, the Doctor will always run into the Daleks.

Not long before their trip to the Mondasian colony ship, the Twelfth Doctor and Bill Potts travelled to Gosligi's Branch tracking the signal of a Dalek harvest ship. Noting that the ship's tractor beams are abducting children, the Doctor runs into the open, his child-like mentality beaming him and Bill aboard.

Making his way to the ship's control room, the Doctor finds it automated, abducting children to harvest their creativity and upgrade the Pathweb. Suspecting that the old ship was pulled out of storage for the Last Great Time War, the Doctor wires himself in and puts it in a holding pattern, stripping its software to its most basic levels.

Despite this however, the door remains locked, even to the Doctor's Dalek impression. After Emily mentions "basic functions", the Doctor realises that the most basic thing to a Dalek is "Kaled", the word opening the door.

After gifting the ship to the people, the Doctor explains anagrams to Bill, using the example of "Eleven plus two" and "twelve plus one", both of which add up to thirteen.

Characters

Twelfth Doctor
Bill Potts
Emily
Clare

References

The Doctor cites imagination, jelly babies, Mario Cart, ice cream, fish fingers and custard, and Harry Potter as things to think about in order to "think like a child".
The Doctor lists Bronte, Carr, Dickinson, Pankhurst and Blunt as famous women named Emily.
A Dalek harvest ship is ancient, its password being Kaled.
"Eleven plus two" is an anagram of "twelve plus one". Both sums, coincidentally, equal thirteen.

Notes

The Doctor and Bill are seen wearing the clothes they wore in TV: Smile
The Doctor mentions Mario Kart, however the story misspells it as Mario Cart.

Continuity

Bill recalls meeting a Dalek before, and how it tried to kill Heather. (TV: The Pilot)
The Doctor voices his dislike of pears. (TV: Hell Bent)
The Doctor tries to open a door on the Dalek flying saucer using a comb. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
The Doctor mentions the Kaleds. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)

Titan Twelfth Doctor comic stories

Doctor Who:
The Twelfth Doctor

Year One	Terrorformer • The Swords of Kali • The Fractures • Gangland • Unearthly Things • The Hyperion Empire • Relative Dimensions

Year Two	Clara Oswald and the School of Death • The Fourth Wall • The Twist • Playing House • Terror of the Cabinet Noir • Invasion of the Mindmorphs

Year Three	Beneath the Waves • The Boy With the Displaced Smile • The Wolves of Winter • The Great Shopping Bill • A Confusion of Angels

Backups	Untitled • Planet of the Diners • The Inversion of Time • The Bin Dilemma • The Partying of the Ways • Silver Screenesis • The Board Games • Day of the Tune / The Meddling of Clara's Song / The Abominable Showmen / The Five Masters / One! Two! Three! Four! To Doomsday • Epilogopolis • The Day at the Doctors • The Faceless Two • Surfshock • Planet of the Rude

Miniseries

Events	Four Doctors • Supremacy of the Cybermen • The Lost Dimension

Other	Ghost Stories • The Master Plan • A Doctor in the House?

Specials

Free Comic Book Day	The Body Electric • Robo Rampage • The Promise • Catch a Falling Star

San Diego Comic Con	Selfie • The Long Con • The Last Action Figure

Thirteenth Doctor specials	Tulpa • The Road To... • The Many Lives of Doctor Who • Harvest of the Daleks

Dalek comic stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Dalek comic story" is one in which one living, authentic Dalek plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story.

Dalek annuals

The Dalek Book	Dalek Planetarium • Invasion of the Daleks • The Oil Well • The Message of Mystery • City of the Daleks • The Humanoids • Monsters of Gurnian • Battle for the Moon

The Dalek World	The Mechanical Planet • Treasure of the Daleks • The Invisible Invaders • The World That Waits • Masters of the World

The Dalek Outer Space Book	The Dalek Trap • Sara Kingdom: Space Security Agent • The Super Sub • The Secret of the Emperor • The Brain Tappers

Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1976	Planet of Serpents • Flood!!!

Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1977	The Daleks

Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1978	The Human Bombs • Island of Horror

The Daleks

Genesis of Evil • Power Play • Duel of the Daleks • The Amaryll Challenge • The Penta Ray Factor • Plague of Death • The Menace of the Monstrons • Eve of War • The Archives of Phryne • The Rogue Planet • Impasse • The Terrorkon Harvest • Legacy of Yesteryear • Shadow of Humanity • The Emissaries of Jevo • The Road to Conflict

Give-a-Show Projectors

The Daleks Destroy the Zomites • The Defeat of the Daleks • The Daleks Are Foiled • Dr. Who and the Nerve Machine • Rescued from the Daleks

TV Comic

The Trodos Ambush • The Doctor Strikes Back • The Exterminator • Jungle Adventure • Attack of the Daleks • The Disintegrator • Return of the Daleks • The Dalek Revenge

TV Action

*Sub Zero • The Planet of the Daleks • The Threat from Beneath

Doctor Who Magazine

The Return of the Daleks • Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer • Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom • On the Icy Edge of the Galaxy... • Nemesis of the Daleks • Emperor of the Daleks! • Bringer of Darkness • Return of the Elders • Fire and Brimstone • Children of the Revolution • Liberation of the Daleks

The History Tour

Early Man: Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 B.C. • The Bit Before the Middle Ages • The Doctor Who History Tour No. 10

Doctor Who Yearbooks

Metamorphosis • Untitled

Doctor Who:
Battles in Time

Carnage Zoo / Flight and Fury / The Living Ghosts / Extermination of the Daleks

BBC Graphic Novels

The Only Good Dalek • The Dalek Project

Dalek: The Astounding
Untold History of the
Greatest Enemies
of the Universe

Ambush • Safe Haven • Empire of the Daleks

Titan Comics

Harvest of the Daleks • Defender of the Daleks

Others

Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150 • The Test of Time • Doctor Who and the Last Stand • A Stitch in Time • Tales of the Dark Times

Because of the ubiquity of this race, no attempt will be made here to list every appearance in every medium. Instead, we focus on comic appearances here, and invite you to explore a complete list of appearances elsewhere.

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