![]() ![]() The strip is in the tradition of multiple Doctor Who time-travel stories with circular narratives in which the Doctor goes back in time to witness a significant historical event only to discover-through some causal loop or bootstrap paradox-that he himself was responsible for bringing about the event he had hoped to observe. THE DOCTOR: It might work even better with a wardrobe. THE DOCTOR: I do have a small, tiny suggestion, though … He’s just upset because it didn’t include half-a-dozen made-up languages! ![]() What about our new Inklings? What did you make of it?” In the next comic panel, the Doctor and Amy Pond are revealed, lounging with the Inklings and enjoying libations.ĪMY POND: Yeah. Tolkien replies, “Well, I thought it was a bit juvenile … A jumble of unrelated mythologies … All rather derivative, I’m afraid … And I wasn’t convinced by the allegorical element at all.” Lewis is presenting the above narrative as an unpublished manuscript to the Inklings at a gathering in The Eagle and Child. The story-within-a-story ends here and the comic strip then begins a new scene in which C. At the final stroke of her pen, the Professor returns to life. Then Amelia turns to a blank leaf in the book and writes a new ending for the Professor, revealing that he was not dead after all. She opens the book and draws the White Queen back into its pages, imprisoning her once more. The Queen orders the Professor killed and attempts to enslave the children, but Amelia shields herself with Shada. She has blanketed Narnia in ice and snow, turning unruly animal and fairy tale creature subjects into trees, and making more malleable subjects into warrior-slaves. When the bookstore lands in Narnia, the three travelers find that the Queen has conquered the land. They leave immediately, believing they have escaped from the prison world, but the White Queen had perceived where their escape route would take them, followed their trajectory, and manipulated the timelines so that she could arrive at their destination before them. The Professor identifies her as the White Queen and orders the children back to the bookstore. She is drawn to resemble both the Lewis villain Jadis and a Weeping Angel from Doctor Who. It moves! … It can travel into the pages of any book ever written! We can be in any story, anywhere in the imagination!” Despite the warning, Amelia opens the book Shada and the trio are transported to a dead landscape drawn to resemble both the Death Zone on the Doctor’s home planet of Gallifrey (from 1983’s “The Five Doctors”) and the devastated civilization Charn discovered by Digory and Polly in The Magician’s Nephew.Īmelia, Rory, and the Professor encounter a regal female with stone skin dressed in Time Lord robes. As he says, “This is no ordinary bookshop. The Professor warns the children not to open any of the books, because doing so will transport the entire store and its occupants into the book’s fictional reality. The mysterious proprietor calls himself “the Professor,” but he is drawn to resemble the Doctor (as played by actor Matt Smith on television in 2011). ![]() Morris’s strip begins during the Blitz, when two child heroes, Amelia and Rory, delay their evacuation of London to visit Phoenix Books, a quaint shop that has a modest exterior but is a cavernous library within. The comic, by writer Jonathan Morris and artist Rob Davis, acknowledges the enduring influence of Lewis’s works upon the multimedia science fiction franchise since its television premiere on November 23, 1963-the day after the death of Lewis and the assassination of President Kennedy. Lewis by retelling two Narnia novels-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950) and The Magician’s Nephew (1955)-as if they were Doctor Who adventures. “The Professor, the Queen, and the Bookshop,” a 2011 comic strip that appeared in Doctor Who Magazine #429, paid tribute to C. Frank Cottrell Boyce, Doctor Who, “In the Forest of the Night” The Doctor and the Inklings If that’s love, no wonder they’re calling down fire from the heavens! THE DOCTOR: You’ve been chopping them down for furniture for centuries. Verity Lambert, co-creator of Doctor Who, in An Adventure in Space and TimeĬLARA: Why would trees want to kill us? We love trees. The Time Lord, the Daleks, and the WardrobeĬ. ![]()
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