IDW Publishing and BBC Worldwide will conclude their
joint celebration of the Doctor’s 50th anniversary with the release of a Doctor
Who Special the final week of 2013. This oversize issue will be written by
fan-favorite Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell and features art by Jimmy Broxton.
In this special one-shot story, a strange force flings
the TARDIS and the Doctor into our own universe! Once here, the Doctor
encounters a 10-year-old girl who happens to be a huge fan of the Doctor Who TV
show. The Doctor grapples with being a fictional character as well as and a
monster lurking at the girl’s school on the way to coming face-to-face with the
actor who portrays him, Matt Smith!
BBC Worldwide and IDW have worked together since 2007.
For the 50th Anniversary celebration, IDW launched a new ongoing series led by
writer Andy Diggle, and the new Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time, an extended
maxi-series that spotlights all eleven Doctors. Additionally, IDW brought forth
the first-ever Doctor Who crossover in any medium, the 2012 Star Trek: The Next
Generation/ Doctor Who event series Assimilation2. The BBC Worldwide/IDW
partnership will conclude following the end of these 50th anniversary celebrations
in December.
“IDW is a great partner and we’re very proud of the
comics that we have created and released together. By extending our
partnership, we are able to provide Doctor Who fans with more than 20
additional titles in celebration of the 50th Anniversary,” states Soumya
Sriraman, Executive Vice President Home Entertainment and Licensing.
“We’ve been extremely proud to be the American home to
new Doctor Who comics these last six years,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief
Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief. “We feel like we’ve said a great many things
with our comics—so it now feels like a good time to let Doctor Who comics
regenerate along with the coming new Doctor on the TV series.”
IDW was the first American comic-book publisher to
produce original Doctor Who comic books, starting in early 2008 with the
release of Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur. IDW also released the first Doctor
Who comic to bring every iteration of the Doctor into one series in Doctor Who:
The Forgotten.
BBC Worldwide will announce the plans for 2014 in the
next coming weeks.
Release Schedule:
July 2013
Doctor Who Series 3 #11
Prisoners of Time #7 (of 12)
Classics V #3
Doctor Who Series 3 Vol. 2 TPB
August 2013
Doctor Who Series 3 #12
Prisoners of Time #8 (of 12)
Doctor Who Series 1 HC
September 2013
Doctor Who Special 2013
Doctor Who Series 3 #13
Prisoners of Time #9 (of 12)
Classics V #4
Prisoners of Time Vol. 2 TPB
October 2013
Doctor Who Series 3 #14
Prisoners of Time #10 (of 12)
Classics V #5
Omnibus, Vol. 2 TPB
Star Trek / Doctor Who HC
November 2013
Doctor Who Series 3 #15
Prisoners of Time #11 (of 12)
Prisoners of Time #12 (of 12)
Classics V #6
Doctor Who Series 3 Vol. 3 TPB
Doctor Who Series 2 HC
Classics Vol. 9
December 2013
Doctor Who Series 3 #16
Doctor Who Special 2013
Prisoners of Time Vol. 3 TPB
Prisoners of Time Complete HC
Doctor Who Series 3 Vol. 4 TPB