IDW Doctor Who strip writer Andy Diggle (formerly of 2000AD) has chatted with SFX spin-off magazine Comic Heroes, and of course the topic turned to everybody’s favourite Time Lord.
He’s currently busy working on a new Superman title for DC comics (among other things; this is the crux of the interview) but Diggle’s workload means that he is also writing issues #5 and #6 of IDW’s Doctor Who this year as well as teaming up with Eddie Robson for #9.
What is interesting – bearing in mind that we’ve heard how Doctor Who Magazine‘s strip won’t feature Clara – is how much Diggle and Robson don’t know about the character.
Interesting stuff, isn’t it? Doctor Who Magazine have avoided Clara in favour of Ian and Barbara, while IDW’s seem stumped with what they can do with her.
What do you think Clara’s secret is?
The new Comic Heroes (issue 17) is out now.
I’m hoping she’s the 12th Doctor, so that JLC stays on the show as long as possible!
Hmm. I really don’t expect that this will be an entirely satisfying reveal once it finally comes. Can it really live up to the build-up? Methinks not. As to what the secret could be, well lets see: she’s a genius, she seemed to adapt quickly to the dimensions of the TARDIS. Could she be…a future incarnation of the Doctor?
Oh – just saw the comment above. Drew, I think you could have stumbled on the answer pal!
Perhaps she’s a human incarnation of the Tardis, ripped out of the box when the Great Intelligence causes it to explode during the Pandorica timeline.
I keep wondering about the color red. In AoTD, Oswin wears her little red dress. In Snowmen, she has a dark red dress when she is the barmaid (and a blue dress as Ms. Montague…blue, red, going back and forward in time…hmmm.) In the upcoming episodes, it appears she is never without a red shoulder bag. Is there a past DW character that is known for being red, or signified by red somehow? I can’t think of any right off-hand. Anyway, Ms. Oswald always likes red.
BBC tight lipped…? I’d say tight fisted when it comes to Doctor Who at the moment.
I was just fiddling around with the letters that make up the name Clara Oswin Oswald and noticed that one can definitely form the name “Rassilon” from the letters … after that, there are still a few letters still left over, but I haven’t made further progress with them.
Perhaps she’s a sort of gestalt entity containing the Time Lords … a ship/race in a bottle?