The Pestilent Heart (comic story)

was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine in 2016. It featured the return of Jess Collins, who last appeared in COMIC: The Highgate Horror, and also introduced her her parents, Devina and Llyod, and her younger brother, Maxwell. Most notably, the ending marked the beginning of a short story arc in which the Doctor moves in with the Collins family while he waits for his TARDIS to repair itself following a system overload.
== Plot ==
to be added
== Characters ==
* Twelfth Doctor
* Jess Collins
* Lloyd Collins
* Devina Collins
* Simon Layton
* Moan'na
* Maxwell Collins
* Daisy
* Brian
* Te'kona
== Worldbuilding ==
* Lloyd and Jess plan to see the latest Carry On film, with Lloyd looking forward to seeing Sid James and Barbara Windsor in it.
* Lloyd is taken to Kings College Hospital.
* Moan'na landed in London shortly before the Bubonic plague of 1665.
* The Doctor uses the phrase, "Up Shobogan creek without a warp drive".
* When thinking about his family, Lloyd envisions Maxwell wearing a Spider-Man shirt.
* As he skydives out of the TARDIS, the Doctor yells, "Geronimo", saying he is quoting "a wise man".
== Notes ==
* Clara Oswald, Gabriel Rosewood and the Corvids briefly appear in a flashback to COMIC: The Highgate Horror.
=== Original print details ===
:(Publication with page count and closing captions)
* DWM 501 (12 pages) Next: Terror in the Dark!
* DWM 502 (12 pages) Next: Sacrifice in the Sky!
* DWM 503 (12 pages) Next: Moving In!
== Continuity ==
* Jess recalls the death of her boyfriend Dave and the defeat of the Corvids by the Doctor and Clara six months previously. (COMIC: The Highgate Horror)
* The Doctor has no memory of Clara Oswald. (TV: Hell Bent) He does, however, remember the events of his previous encounter with Jess. (COMIC: The Highgate Horror)
* The Doctor once again tries to use "Funkenstein" as an aliases. (TV: The Zygon Invasion)
* The Doctor is as irritated by "domestics" as his ninth incarnation was. (TV: Aliens of London)
Category:2016 comic stories
Category:Twelfth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Stories set in London
Category:Stories set in 1972
Category:Three part comics