Sticks & Stones ( comic story ) Summary . As an alien graffiti artist attacks London , the Doctor discovers that the Sticks and Stones rhyme is wrong . Words can hurt you ! Plot . Part 1 . While Amy Pond cooks dinner in the TARDIS , Rory Williams is out grocery shopping . Watching the news on the store ' s TV , he discovers that a graffiti artist named Monos has been vandalising London landmarks . Meanwhile , a group of police , acting on a hunch that Monos will tag City Hall next , are staking the building out from across the street when the Eleventh Doctor shows up . Sure enough , the graffiti appears , seemingly out of nowhere . The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to render Monos partially visible , and as Monos leaves , the Doctor and the police take off in pursuit . Back in the supermarket , a young girl named Judy bursts in , claiming that " they " are outside . She convinces Steve , a police officer , to lock the doors . As the Doctor follows after Monos , the van he and the police officers are in suddenly flies off the ground , bringing it level with Monos , who is levitating high in the air . Climbing onto the roof , the Doctor tells Monos to put the van back on the ground . Monos complies by dropping the van instead of lowering it slowly . As he plummets down to the ground , the Doctor manages to restart the anti - gravity limpet that Monos had attached to the van , and the police officers exit the van safely , except for DI Bill Stringer , who leaves with the Doctor in search of Monos . While Steve and Brenda , a supermarket checker , try to get Judy to explain who was chasing her , Rory calls Amy and tells her not to leave the TARDIS in case Judy ' s unseen pursuers cause trouble . Amy then defiantly leaves the TARDIS . Brenda starts to see and hear the word " Monos " everywhere , then turns into a silhouette with MONOSMONOSMONOS written all over it . Amy finds a police car with smashed windows in the supermarket parking lot , then turns around to see four more MONOS - people advancing towards her . . . Part 2 . The thing that used to be Brenda advances towards Steve . As she touches him , he turns into another MONOS - person . Judy , Rory and the other shoppers flee as the two MONOS - people attack . As Amy grabs a shopping cart and rams the MONOS - people , Rory calls the Doctor and explains the situation . As the Doctor begins to realise that the MONOS - people have been translated , not transformed , Bill starts to see the word " Monos " everywhere , but the Doctor tells him to say his name out loud over and over , so he won ' t lose focus . The two then find a cubical spaceship parked at Hampstead Heath and enter it . We briefly see Rory and Judy realising that they are the last humans left in the supermarket . The Doctor and Bill walk in on Monos , a red - skinned teenage alien wearing skull jewelry and a metal gauntlet . Monos , not seeing them , talks out loud to himself about how the horror he has created is art , then turns around and spots the Doctor and Bill . The Doctor explains to Bill that Monos is a Necrotist , who , like all members of his artistic movement , believes that death is the highest form of art . As Monos reveals his master plan , the Doctor figures out that Monos has turned the people into living names , or Leximorph s , but Monos attacks him and then Bill with an electric sphere that he controls with his gauntlet . Bill , however , manages to attach the anti - gravity limpet to Monos ' s hand , and Monos shoots up into the air and is electrocuted by his own sphere . His gauntlet falls to the ground , and the Doctor attempts to reverse its effect . . . In the supermarket , Rory and Judy are surrounded by Leximorphs . Judy , in desperation , pushes one away . . . but doesn ' t change . Rory calls the Doctor , who deduce s that Judy , who has dyslexia , cannot be affected by the Leximorphs . Amy then crashes through the supermarket doors in a car , and Rory and Judy climb in . The three of them head to the TARDIS , where the Doctor tells them to dissolve some crystals hidden inside the console . He recommends using sulphuric acid , but Rory finds a suitable substitute - Amy ' s chilli sauce ! As the crystals - revealed to be the TARDIS ' s translation circuit s - dissolve , everyone in the city of London suddenly gets dyslexia , the Leximorphs return to human and the Doctor advises Bill to join UNIT . Later , the Doctor is putting away Monos ' s glove when a transmission appears on the monitor . Whoever is sending it has apparently met the Doctor before , and tells the Doctor that " this next bit is going to hurt . " Notes . " to be added "