Josie Day Josephine " Josie " Day was a painter and companion to the Eighth Doctor . Biography . Josie was originally a portrait of Lady Josephine , commissioned to capture her beauty . The portrait was so rich with animae particle s that it took on its own semblance of life . When Lady Josephine died , the portrait was sold at auction . The Twelfth Doctor bought the living portrait and took it to his house in Wales in the 21st century , where he knew Josie would meet his previous self , believing that the younger Doctor would be better suited to help Josie than he would in his current persona . ( COMIC : " A Matter of Life and Death " ) Josie took up residence at the house , and took it upon herself to patch it up to the best of her ability , even rearranging the Doctor ' s book collection . She worked on her artwork in the house , selling on completed pieces to people in the local area . Whilst painting one day , the Eighth Doctor showed up at the house and questioned what she was doing there . He went on to explain that it was his house and that he was looking for a copy of " Jane Eyre " that he had left behind . The Doctor and Josie were interrupted by Mrs Fellowes who informed them that Josie ' s paintings had come to life and were attacking the village . The Doctor scanned Josie with his sonic screwdriver and discovered that she was coated in animae particles , which due to the reactivation of one of the Doctor ' s old telepathic circuits had caused the trouble in the village . The trio left the Doctor ' s house and found that Josie ' s paintings were rounding up the townsfolk . The Doctor told Josie to create an ending to the story as he was captured by a pair of Witherkin s . Josie then ran back to the house and drew a picture of the Doctor . The picture promptly came to life and destroyed the old telepathic circuit , returning the paintings to their original state . The Doctor invited Josie to travel with him , indicating that their first stop would be Lumin ' s World . ( COMIC : " The Pictures of Josephine Day " ) On Lumin ' s World they found themselves in the middle of a warzone . Josie was hit by a piece of crystal that fell from the sky . The crystal came from a Spherion , and began to grow over her body . The Doctor communicated with the Spherions and discovered that they had no idea their offspring were incubated inside of living beings . The Spherions used their harmonics to shatter the crystals inside Josie ' s body , freeing her . The Doctor then showed Josie a room inside the TARDIS where she could paint . ( COMIC : " Music of the Spherions " ) Travelling to Briarwood house in 1932 , the Doctor and Josie found the house to be attacked by the Nixi . Together they helped Bertie , a young boy living in the house , to fulfil his family ' s legacy in placing the Nixi and their king into deep sleep for another thousand years . ( COMIC : " Briarwood " ) Josie and the Doctor travelled to a Bakri Resurrection Barge in the far future , where the synthetic bodies created for deceased humans began to grow their own conscious and rebelled against the humans . There Josie encountered Lady Josephine , and she told the Doctor who Josie really was . The Doctor accepted Josie as her friend and helped the synthetic humans overthrow their masters . The Doctor took Josie back to his house in Wales where Josie recounted the remainder of her story to him . The Doctor was happy to let Josie continue her life and offered for her to travel with him once more . Josie accepted the Doctor ' s offer to take a trip to Epsilon Eridani for egg and chips . ( COMIC : " A Matter of Life and Death " ) Josie and the Doctor were caught up in the events of the Void seeping out into the universe . The Doctor ' s earlier selves helped them escape from the Void , where they exited into the Ninth Doctor ' s TARDIS . They remained behind in Bristol to fend off those possessed by the Type 1 TARDIS within the Void . Ultimately , their memory of the event was lost . ( COMIC : " The Lost Dimension " ) Alternate timelines . On one occasion , in an alternate timeline created by Rassilon ' s pact with the Cybermen , ( COMIC : " Supremacy of the Cybermen " ) Josie and the Doctor were running back to the TARDIS when they found it covered in Cybermat s . Their masters , the Cybermen then surrounded them , shouting " save ! " . ( COMIC : " " ) These events were unwritten when Rassilon and the Twelfth Doctor worked together to revert the timeline . ( COMIC : " Supremacy of the Cybermen " )