The Doctor weighs in on a long standing debate

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Quick scene setting: Due to a recent emergency manoeuvre he had to force the TARDIS to make, the 12th Doctor is temporarily stuck in 1972 Britain. The TARDIS is completely out of commission whilst it rests, heals, and forgives the Doctor for forcing it to make the manoeuvre at all. So at present it's internal dimensions now match it's outer dimensions and basically the Doctor is stranded.

Luckily (for him at least) he's stranded with the family of his current travelling companion, Jessica, and this issue is him interacting with the various members of the family as he settles in. They are aware that he's an alien and not exactly... normal, but even houseguests have rules and this rather acerbic version of the Doctor isn't always good with those. But he learns, and he adapts...


And then we have this little scene where he meets Jessica's little brother; (and it has to be said, you hear easily hear this in Peter Capaldi's voice).







Not sure if that's a sly little dig at "Sherlock" or not, but it's fun.

Plus, for all that the 12th Doctor is rather... "empathy deficient" with people a lot of the time, I do like the fact that he gets on well (usually) with children. The Doctor, much like Batman, should never be scary to small children no matter how gruff bad tempered he might appear to be.

And since this is 1972, Maxwell's reference for Batman is most likley to be the 1960's TV show, and Neal Adams was just kicking into high gear and I imagine Maxwell would be picking up the UK reprints.

And Captain America at this point in time was working with the Falcon.

Oh and as noted in the comments below, I should have noted that this is from the UK's Doctor Who Magazine #504