The Pestilent Heart (comic story)

The Pestilent Heart was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine in 2016. It featured the return of Jess Collins, who last appeared in The Highgate Horror, and also introduced her parents, Devina and Llyod, and her younger brother, Maxwell. Most notably, the ending marked the beginning of a short story arc in which the Doctor moves in with the Collins family while he waits for his TARDIS to repair itself following a system overload.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Twelfth Doctor
• Jess Collins
• Lloyd Collins
• Devina Collins
• Simon Layton
• Moan'na
• Maxwell Collins
• Daisy
• Brian
• Te'kona

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Lloyd and Jess plan to see the latest Carry On film, with Lloyd looking forward to seeing Sid James and Barbara Windsor in it.
• Lloyd is taken to Kings College Hospital.
• Moan'na landed in London shortly before the Bubonic plague of 1665.
• The Doctor uses the phrase, "Up Shobogan creek without a warp drive".
• When thinking about his family, Lloyd envisions Maxwell wearing a Spider-Man shirt.
• As he skydives out of the TARDIS, the Doctor yells, "Geronimo", saying he is quoting "a wise man".

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Clara Oswald, Gabriel Rosewood and the Corvids briefly appear in a flashback to COMIC: The Highgate Horror.

Original print details[[edit] | [edit source]]

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

• DWM 501 (12 pages) Next: Terror in the Dark!
• DWM 502 (12 pages) Next: Sacrifice in the Sky!
• DWM 503 (12 pages) Next: Moving In!

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Jess recalls the death of her boyfriend Dave and the defeat of the Corvids by the Doctor and Clara six months previously. (COMIC: The Highgate Horror)
• The Doctor has no memory of Clara Oswald. (TV: Hell Bent) He does, however, remember the events of his previous encounter with Jess. (COMIC: The Highgate Horror)
• The Doctor once again tries to use "Funkenstein" as an aliases. (TV: The Zygon Invasion)
• The Doctor is as irritated by "domestics" as his ninth incarnation was. (TV: Aliens of London)