- You may be looking for the titular book.
The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop was the 2010 Christmas comic story from Doctor Who Magazine, and was therefore the current story when A Christmas Carol was enjoying its BBC One premiere.. Presciently, it presaged the televised 2011 Christmas Special by telling a story based upon The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
This one, however, involved the Eleventh Doctor and a young Amelia Pond and Rory Williams in a heightened reality that feels like Narnia. Only on the final page do readers understand that C. S. Lewis] has been reading a story, and that the story with the Doctor wasn't real.
Importantly, the story drew the parallels between Narnia and Doctor Who, and opined out that Lewis died on the day before Doctor Who premiered in 1963.
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
In the Book
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.
- 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.
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