CREATOR EXCLUSIVE
The Doctor and Ruby shop till they drop in Titan Comics’s new Fifteenth Doctor series
WHILE NCUTI GATWA and Millie Gibson’s inaugural season in the TARDIS will soon draw to a close, the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday’s adventures are continuing in a new miniseries from writer Dan Watters and artist Kelsey Ramsay – who were venturing into the unknown somewhat, considering that only the Christmas episode had been broadcast at the time they embarked upon the four-parter.
“I have good guidance from the BBC and access to scripts and things,” Watters tells Red Alert. “Some of my draft dialogue might have been a little too Eleventh Doctor, but once you pick up on the cadence and rhythm of a character, it becomes steadily easier to write them as they start to live in your head.
“Every Doctor is distinct – that’s kind of the point if you ask me – and Fifteen is a fizzling ball of energy, perhaps more in touch with the modern world than more recent iterations.”
He and Ramsay have had to tread carefully to avoid any spoilers. “There’s a ton of secrecy,” adds Watters. “It makes me feel like I’m in a John le Carré novel!”
Ramsay has striven to capture the Doctor and Ruby’s distinctive looks. “Likeness was a challenge for me at first and choosing what features I thought were most identifying for both of them took me a little time,” she says.
“Thinking about shape – strong facial structures and eyes were what I focused on, and considering I don’t have a realistic style I think we got to something good!”
Picking up directly from last month’s Free Comic Book Day Doctor Who issue, the series sees the Doctor and Ruby sent on a potentially deadly retail excursion. “I was interested in setting a story on Earth after it was abandoned, since this had been alluded to a b
