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Doctor Who – Guide to Multiple Doctors Who Events

Doctor Who – The Fifteenth Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa

Want to enjoy stories featuring the Fifteenth Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa? This is a collecting guide and viewing order for episodes, novels, comic books, magazines, audio dramas, and more. Find every release and appearance! A part of the Guide to Doctor Who on Crushing Comics, edited by AdjectiveNoun. Last updated March 2024 with titles scheduled for release through June 2024.

The 15th Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa

Ncuti Gatwa made his debut as The Fifteenth Doctor on 9 December 2023 in the final episode in a trio of 60th Anniversary specials starring David Tenant as The Fourteenth Doctor (having re-regenerated to the same form he had as The Tenth Doctor – more on that in the Fourteenth Doctor Guide).

The debut of a new Doctor Who had been over two years in the making, starting from a July 2021 announcement that The Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whitaker, would be departing the show along with showrunner Chris Chibnall at the end of their 2022 series. The BBC didn’t waste much time assuring fans that more Doctor Who was on the way, announcing the return of prior showrunner Russell T. Davis to produce a series of 60th Anniversary specials as well as a new series.

When Whitaker’s run reached its conclusion in October 2022, fans were left with a surprising cliffhanger! Gatwa had already been announced as the next Doctor back in May, but Whitaker’s Thirteenth Doctor didn’t regenerate into Gatwa! Instead, the regeneration revealed David Tennant, who played the Tenth Doctor!

This lead to a trio of 2023 60th Anniversary specials with Tennant playing the Fourteenth Doctor, which celebrated some of the show’s past continuity – including bringing back prior Companions and even referencing an old Doctor Who Comic book!

At the end of that trio of episodes, we saw the regeneration to Gatwa as the Fifthteenth Doctor in The Giggle. Gatwa had the lengthiest introduction out of any of the modern regeneration handoffs, starring alongside Tennant for over 15 minutes of the episode.

The Fifteenth Doctor made his solo debut in “The Church on Ruby Road,” a 2023 Christmas special. His first full series debuts on 11 May 2023, with a second series already shot by the time that one airs.

Since we are at the beginning of a period of a new Doctor, there isn’t much supporting media yet for Gatwa’s incarnation as of this writing. In addition to their television episodes, each Doctor is also featured in novel adaptions of those episodes, original novels and short stories, audio dramas, comic books, content in the long-running Doctor Who Magazine, and occasional multimedia crossover events.. This page will track all of those stories for the Fifteenth Doctor as they are released.

Doctor Who – The Fourteenth Doctor, David Tennant (again!)

Want to enjoy stories featuring the Fourteenth Doctor Who – the return of David Tennant? This is a collecting guide and viewing order for episodes, novels, comic books, magazines, audio dramas, and more. Find every release and appearance! A part of the Guide to Doctor Who on Crushing Comics, edited by AdjectiveNoun. Last updated March 2024 with titles scheduled for release through June 2024.

The 14th Doctor, David Tennant (again!)

David Tennant returned to Doctor Who not as the Tenth Doctor, but as an all-new Fourteenth Doctor on 25 November 2023 in a series of three 60th Anniversary specials before regenerating (sortof) into the Fifteenth Doctor – Ncuti Gatwa (more on that in the Fifteenth Doctor Guide).

In 2021, the BBC announced that previous showrunner Russell T. Davies would return to take the helm of Doctor Who for the 60th Anniversary in the wake of the departure of Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whitaker. Ncuti Gatwa was announced as the next Doctor on 8 May 2022 – still months before Whitaker’s final adventure aired.

Yet, in the run-up to that final episode, some curious set photos began to leak. They showed David Tennant – the Tenth Doctor – on set! This mystery deepened with the final episode of the Thirteenth Doctor on 23 October 2022, where her regeneration had her transforming not into Gatwa, but into Tennant!

The BBC promptly announced that David Tennant was the Fourteenth Doctor and that he would be reuniting with former co-star Catherine Tate as Donna Noble for a trio of 60th Anniversary specials prior to Ncuti Gatwa taking over as the Fifteenth Doctor.

The 60th Anniversary specials were both a celebration of past continuity (and Companions) and a simplified introduction for new viewers. That was important, since the BBC entered an agreement with Disney+ for global distribution of the show outside of the UK! The three episodes celebration some of the Doctor’s continuity and several of his past companions and supporting characters, all while staying intentionally accessible to new fans.

This brief era of the Fourteenth had an open-ended conclusion thanks to an unusual regeneration. It was more of bi-generation, that meant the Tennant’s incarnation of Fourteenth could continue his adventures while the Fifteenth Doctor began his. Though there is no further media confirmed with Tennant in the role of the Fourteenth Doctor, the extended universe of Doctor Who may be allowed to use him in the future in tales that are contemporaneous with Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor!

Guide to Doctor Who – 9th, 14th, & 15th Doctors (New for Patrons!)

April 1, 2024 by krisis

Today is April Fool’s day, but this is not a joke! It’s a not a hoax or a dream! It’s not some wibbly wobbly, timey wimey nonsense… unless you count the untold hours we’ve spent readying these guides for launch! That’s right, it’s really the debut of a Guide to Doctor Who presented by Crushing Comics and edited by AdjectiveNoun.

We are launching the new Guide to Doctor Who with guides to three doctors – the 9th Doctor, who kicked off the modern era in 2005, and the 14th & 15th Doctors, who anchored the recent 60th Anniversary episodes. Plus, what would a new section of Crushing Comics be without a guide to the linewide events of the universe?! For Doctor Who, that means a Guide to Multiple Doctors Who, covering every media and anthology that includes multiple incarnations of The Doctor.

These new Doctor Who Guides are exclusively available to Pledgeonaut Patrons of Crushing Krisis until the debut of the new Doctor Who season in May on the BBC and Disney+.

Guide to The Ninth Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston

Guide to The Fourteenth Doctor Who, David Tennant (again!)

Guide to The Fifteenth Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa

Guide to Multiple Doctors Who Events

These guides not only cover comic books, but episodes, novels, short stories, audio dramas, and magazines! How? Why?! Because I recruited my Down Under friend AdjectiveNoun, a major Whovian who got me hooked on the new 60th Anniversary episodes that debuted this past December.

We combined AdjectiveNoun’s Who knowledge and my established Guide infrastructure & style to create a set of Doctor Who Guides that are organized differently than any other guides we could find online.

Guides to the remaining 12 Doctors will launch over the course of the next 12 months.

Ghost Rider & The Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot

March 31, 2024 by krisis

Until April 5, I’ll be loosely mapping missing and most-wanted Marvel omnibus volumes every day! Today I’m continuing brief trip into the mystical side of Marvel by peering into all of the omnibuses that don’t yet exist for Marvel’s Ghost Rider – as well as the rest of the Midnight Sons!

This post explains titles and potential Ghost Rider & The Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping for entries on the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot. You can vote right now (until 5 April 2024 @ midnight US ET) or watch our mega-length announcement stream reviewing every single voting option.

In addition to Ghost Rider, below I’ll also cover the potential omnibus volumes for Blade, Morbius, and The Darkhold – which were all titles that were a part of the “Midnight Sons” line launched by Marvel in the early 90s!

Ghost Rider is actually one of the trickiest characters to map into omnibus! There are many reasons behind this – his publishing history, the fact that there’s not just one “Ghost Rider,” complexities introduced by crossovers and creator changes, and Marvel’s existing collected editions mapping.

Before we get started, I have to give a shout-out to VinWritesWords, who creates comics guides at Cosmic Circus! There aren’t a ton of other people out there toiling over making comic guides and mapping comic runs, so I delight in every time I meet one. Having Vin as my very remote colleague and fellow comics historian for the past two years has brought me so much joy. He has been there for a quick motivational chat through many times where I was stuck in the middle of making a guide. I love how he makes guides that are focused on streamlined reading experiences and he is one of the biggest experts on the comics internet about the characters I am covering in this post! Vin’s opinions on mapping have definitely influenced how I think about these potential omnibus volumes.

After this post, I’ll only be focusing on two more solo heroes in their own posts – Wolverine and Spider-Man! All other solo characters will be either mapped in a Solo Heroes mega-post or as part of the X-Men line mapping.

If you’re not sure of what to vote for, stick around for my explanations. Or, if you’ve already voted, learn why the team behind the poll decided on these books and titles – including some of my mistakes and regrets as one of the editors of the options on the final poll.

Or… just find some great comics to read!

Remember: These mappings are just my suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to help you decide on your votes and build your personal reading list, but your vote on the poll is NOT an endorsement of my specific map. It’s a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period.

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