The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop (comic story)

The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Amy Pond
Main enemy:	The White Queen
Main setting:	The Doctor's bookshop, 'The Desolation of the White Queen', The White Queen's world
Key crew
Publisher:	Panini Comics
Editor:	Tom Spilsbury, Scott Gray
Writer:	Jonathan Morris
Artist:	Rob Davis
Colourist:	Geraint Ford
Letterer:	Roger Langridge
Release details
Printed in:	Doctor Who Magazine 429
Release date:	12 January 2011
Format:	Comic - 1 part
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Summary

The Doctor and Amy present C. S. Lewis with a book, The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop, not unlike a piece of his future work...

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Amy Pond
• C. S. Lewis
• J. R. R. Tolkien

In the Book

• The White Queen

References

• In the book, the Doctor calls himself "the Professor". This was what Ace called him.
• The bookshop where Amy and Rory meet the Doctor is obviously the TARDIS; the entrance and sign are 'TARDIS blue', the interior is seemingly infinite, with a lantern on a hexagonal table representing the TARDIS console, and it can travel anywhere.
• The books are named after 'scrapped' Who stories (Shylock, Scratchman, The Dark Dimension, The Master of Luxor, The Song of the Space Whale, The Imps) or books that the artist, Rob Davis wrote as a child, possibly including Zackzod, Doom Boxes, Blood Shed, Sirens of, and Titan. The most notable is the book Amy picks up named Shada.
• A skull with a pentagram sits on a shelf of the bookshop. (TV: Image of the Fendahl)
• The characters finding themselves in a dead world with a city in the distance is reminiscient of the dead city from TV: The Daleks.
• The humanoid creatures of the Queen's realm resemble various Doctor Who monsters. The Minotaur resembles the Nimon, the Faun a Dæmon, the Rhino a Judoon, the Cheetah a Cheetah Person, the Pig a Pig slave, the Amphibian a Fish Person, the Wolf a Werewolf (most likely the one from Tooth and Claw), the Fly probably a Tritovore or Zarbi, and the Woodlouse a Tractator.

It is not clear which races the Bear and Lion represent; they could be any extraterrestrial lookalikes such as an Ursine or Heavenite and a Tharil or Endovorm. There is also a human-like creature with dark skin, an animal nose and black/white striped hair.

• Linking to the previous point, there is a canine creature who has been turned into a tree; this could be another Wolf, but its appearance more resembles The Garm.
• The 'Tower of Darkness' in which the White Queen resides is named after and resembles The Dark Tower.
• The Queen wears a Time Lord collar, and the Seal of Rassilon appears above her throne (possibly suggesting a link to Gallifrey), seemingly a reference to the Rani, whose name is Hindi for "Queen". She can also turn people into trees, as she did in The Mark of the Rani.
• When the characters first encounter the Queen, she is a statue that moves when their backs are turned, much like a Weeping Angel.

Notes

• This story is based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The title is also a play on the book's title, as are PROSE: The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe and TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.