The Stockbridge Showdown ( comic story ) It was also the first DWM comic strip to be set after Clara ' s departure . Coincidentally , Titan Publishing Group released its first monthly comic set after Clara ' s departure just one day before " The Stockbridge Showdown " was released . Publisher ' s summary . A very special celebratory comic strip adventure from Scott Gray , Dave Gibbons , Martin Geraghty , Roger Langridge and many more ! Plot . After a day of searching for crop circle s , Maxwell Edison is driving his motorbike back to Stockbridge on a still Autumn night . Today is Maxwell ' s 60th birthday . As he drives past a gate , a familiar blue box materialises on the road behind Maxwell . The Twelfth Doctor jumps out of the TARDIS with a look of joy on his face . After a moment of being surprised that the Doctor has changed his face again , Maxwell is hugged by the Doctor . The Doctor explains that he has visited Stockbridge because he detected temporal distortions coming from the area . Maxwell is briefly disappointed as he had assumed the Doctor had came to celebrate Maxwell ' s birthday . The two then head towards Stockbridge to investigate the distortions . They enter Stockbridge to find that the villagers have been frozen in time . The Doctor examines a woman and finds that she has been " slightly phased outside this continuum " . He declares that everyone has been trapped between nanoseconds and that whoever did it must have been a genius . Meanwhile , a floating camera drone watches the Doctor and Maxwell from the sky . Many years later , someone else is celebrating their birthday . Josiah W . Dogbolter is holding a service for his 500th birthday at the headquarters of Intra - Venus , Inc . . Watching over the party , Dogbolter asks Hob why his daughter , Berakka Dogbolter , isn ' t there . Hob replies that she mentioned something about an emergency board meeting . Sharon Allen , a former companion of the Fourth Doctor who is now a journalist for the Galactic Broadcasting Corporation , confronts Dogbolter . She tells him that there have been many men throughout history as powerful as Dogbolter is now , and that eventually all their empires fell . Before Dogbolter can reply , he receives a notification on his mobile phone that pleases him immensely . He tells Sharon , " See you later , Miss Allen . . . or earlier ! " Dogbolter enters a dark basement where he greets the person who sent him the notification : Chiyoko ! Chiyoko tells Dogbolter that she has achieved harmonic alignment with Stockbridge in 2016 and created a crude time tunnel leading to the village . She explains that she froze Stockbridge ' s citizens to lure the Doctor to the village and that the Doctor fell for the trap . Back in Stockbridge , the Doctor and Maxwell encounter Gol Clutha and her group of mercenaries . Dogbolter has hired her to escort the Doctor and Maxwell to St Justinian ' s Church , where Dogbolter and Chiyoko are waiting . The Doctor uses the city ' s temporally frozen nature to escape : he throws a cricket ball at a nearby fountain , disrupting the static atom s of the water , causing it to explode . Maxwell and the Doctor use the distraction to run away . Meanwhile in the future , the Intra - Venus Inc . major shareholders hold an emergency meeting . Mr Groblux brings to attention the fact that nobody knows who called this meeting together . Majenta Pryce enters the room and declares that she did . This causes uproar as Majenta , a junior shareholder , had no right to do so . Majenta tells the shareholders that soon she will no longer be a minor player , as she will soon buy all of their shares for 12 Mazuma s each , which is only 0 . 0000001 % of their real value . She begins threatening the shareholders by listing the several illegal activities committed by various shareholders , and then lowers her offer to 10 Mazumas per share . Berakka Dogbolter bursts into the room and hysterically announces that she will give " her daddy " an extra present for his birthday : Majenta ' s head in a box . As she lunges towards Majenta with a sword , Majenta presses a button on her glove and a figure with a sword jumps through a circular window to rescue Majenta . That figure is Destrii ! Destrii lands on the ground and blocks Berakka ' s sword with her own . She then punches Berakka ' s face before jumping away to avoid being sliced in half . The two continue to fight in this pattern , with Destrii evading Berakka ' s sword but not using her own . Eventually , Destrii manages to kick Berakka , knocking her out . Majenta then addresses the shareholders , saying that she ' ll now buy their shares for 5 Mazumas each . Back in 2016 , Gol Clutha catches up with the Doctor and Maxwell and traps Max in a tangle web . She threatens to shoot Maxwell if the Doctor doesn ' t come with her to St Justinian ' s , forcing the Doctor to comply . The Doctor and Maxwell enter the church to see Dogbolter and Chiyoko waiting for them ; behind them covered in orange wrapping paper and a blue bow is the ultimate birthday gift : the Doctor ' s TARDIS . Dogbolter forces the Doctor and Maxwell to kneel before him as he explains that with a time machine he can " destroy [ his ] competitors before they ' re born " and " play the stock market and always win " , letting him become the wealthiest man in all of time . At this point the Doctor asks Dogbolter if he remembers hiring an assassin to kill Angus Goodman . Dogbolter tells the Doctor that he ' s killed thousands of " nobodies " to get his way and Angus was not more significant than any of the others . Dogbolter then proclaims that the Doctor is a dead loss and orders Clutha kill him . Chiyoko suddenly says , " Hold the phone Josiah , this guy could still be useful . . . Y ' know ? " . Chiyoko doesn ' t talk like this . The fact that she is an imposter revealed , she begins changing into a small penguin . He then uses his flipper to smack Clutha and says , " The name ' s Frobisher . " He then transforms into a large brown figure with hammer s for arms and knocks out the rest of Clutha ' s team . Dogbolter then says that , unlike Gus , he remembers Frobisher and had made preparations should they ever meet again . He then commands Hob to activate the null - beam , which reverts Frobisher to his penguin form . Frustrated with the Doctor , Dogbolter knocks him to the ground and points a gun at him . Before Dogbolter can fire , Maxwell jumps onto him , knocking him off balance . As Dogbolter recovers from the blow , a heavy gift hits his head , knocking him unconscious . The person that threw that parcel was Izzy Sinclair ! She hugs the Doctor , then uses her medical skills to make sure that Dogbolter wasn ' t hurt . Dogbolter wakes up and screams , " I ' ll kill " all " of your friends ! " Sharon Allen , who was hiding behind the TARDIS , emerges from the shadow with several of the floating cameras which were seen watching the Doctor . She reveals that the entire confrontation has been broadcast back in Dogbolter ' s century . Dogbolter counters by explaining that he ' ll get his lawyer s to say that everything was faked , but the Doctor strikes the final blow by saying that thanks to Majenta Pryce he ' ll be getting " serious cash - flow problems " and won ' t be able afford a good legal team . The Doctor then reveals that it was not Dogbolter who organised the events of this evening , but himself . In Dogbolter ' s century , Dogbolter is arrested on Venus by Intersol officers and Majenta Pryce has become the new CEO of Intra - Venus . In 2016 , the Doctor , Izzy and Maxwell slowly walk through Stockbridge towards the TARDIS . The Doctor explains that he froze the villagers to keep them safe from the conflict . The Doctor then tells Maxwell he ' s arranged a birthday party for him , and they enter the TARDIS and leave Earth , although not before Maxwell says , " Oh ! You ' ve redecorated . . . I love it ! " The Doctor , Izzy Sinclair , Destrii , Sharon Allen , Frobisher and Majenta Pryce then have a party on a summer evening in the golden city of Cornucopia . They don ' t slow down until dawn . External links . " to be added "