The Futurists (comic story)

The Futurists was a Tenth Doctor comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine.
== Summary ==
Soon after the leader of the Futurist group disappears, Milan is destroyed. In its place is a huge, futuristic city. The Doctor and Rose travel back to the time of the Romans to find out who is behind this...
== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
* Tenth Doctor
* Rose Tyler
* Altea Orsi
* Valente
* Giovanni Lucio
* Massimo
* Secondus
* Aeron
* Olwyn
* Derek
* Darius
== Worldbuilding ==
* Rose mentions 99s, tutti frutti, Boudicca and WKD.
* The Doctor mentions Kraftwerk, Purple Haze, and Starlight Express.
* When explaining the Futurists' history, the Doctor tells Rose that they ended up fascists for Benito Mussolini when he joined Adolf Hitler in World War II.
* Rose fancied a boy at her school who liked Pantera's thrash metal, and she still has a weakness for Planet Caravan.
* Rose compares Valente to the Rock.
* The Doctor acts with confusion when he hears a Roman call for an attack on the Silurians, mistakenly thinking he means the Earth Reptiles.
* The Silurian Liberation Front fight in the name of Caratacus.
* Giovanni is obsessed with architect Antonio Sant'Elia's work.
* Aeron thinks the Hajor dimension might be Annwn.
* When told the Hajor "smooth out" the paradoxes in the timeline created by time travellers, the Doctor compares them to "the blokes with shovels [that] follow the elephants in the Disneyland parade", only to realise he would be the elephant in the example.
== Notes ==
* The Silurians were a real Celtic tribe, and were deliberately included in the strip by Collins due to their having the same name as the show's Silurians.
== Continuity ==
* Rose is once again disappointed to be near Cardiff. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
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