Into Control was the first (and only) comic story and twenty-fourth release exclusively published in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 on 7 September 2023 by Penguin Group.[1] It formed the second part of a story which began earlier in the annual with the short story Under Control, and was first wholly original annual comic strip published since the 2019 annual's Where's the Doctor?
A prose adaptation of the strip was released the following month as the last item of the anthology Ten Days of Christmas, alongside its preceding instalment.
Plot[]
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Characters[]
- Fourteenth Doctor
- Alfredo
- Queen of the Sycorax
- Sarnsquids
- Strombok
Worldbuilding[]
- The Sycorax Queen conjured up the illusion of an army of Sycorax to intimidate the Doctor, which vanishes when she escapes.
Notes[]
- The Fourteenth Doctor confirms that, while he looks like the Tenth Doctor, he is not a case of retro-regeneration, but a genetically different incarnation that just looks like his tenth incarnation.
Continuity[]
- The Sycorax spaceship has a rocky appearance, resembling the Sycorax spacecraft Fire Trap from The Christmas Invasion [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas special (BBC One, 2005)..
- The Sycorax Queen wants revenge for the Sycorax killed by Harriet Jones in The Christmas Invasion [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas special (BBC One, 2005)., and tries to use the sword that the Sycorax leader cut the Tenth Doctor's hand off with to acquire the Tenth Doctor's blood in her revenge plot.
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