List of Torchwood comics
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Below is a list of spin-off comics based on the British television series Torchwood.
Like all Torchwood spin-off media, their canonicity in relation to the television series remains unclear.
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[edit] Torchwood Magazine
Torchwood Magazine includes a 10-page Torchwood comic strip in each issue;[1] issue 2 did not include the strip.
| # | Title | Writer | Artist | Publication date |
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| 1 | "The Legacy of Torchwood One!" | Simon Furman | SL Gallant | 24 January 2008 |
| Ianto Jones is contacted by his old mentor from Torchwood One, Rupert Howarth; a man Ianto presumed dead. Upon questioning from Jack, it is revealed that in order to escape from pharmaceutical companies who were trying to kill him over his immunity-boosting drugs, he faked his own death by torching his lab. Whilst Rupert is being questioned, something has burnt down the warehouse where he had been sleeping. Upon investigation, Jack, Owen and Gwen are attacked by an apparition that shows their worst fears. Barely escaping with their lives, they question Rupert once more whereby he reveals that the being they fought was a Chimera; a human whose DNA he had spliced with that of an alien in an effort to make a super-soldier. However the being became uncontrollable and escaped, determined to track its creator down. The Chimera tracks the team through the smell of their fear back to the Hub and begins terrorizing the team. However, the reason Rupert got in touch with Ianto was to access the Torchwood mainframe and access the combination of drugs required to destroy the Chimera. Just as the creature is about to kill Ianto, Rupert injects the creature. In the resulting fall, the Chimera breaks Rupert's neck, leaving them both dead on the floor. | ||||
| 2 | "Jetsam" | Brian Williamson | Brian Williamson | 20 March 2008 |
| A ship carrying alien artefacts is hit by a storm in Cardiff Bay, resulting in several alien devices washing up on shore. Among them is a giant armed motorbike. Next to it are tyre tracks indicating their used to be two. Surrounding the larger tracks are several tracks left by Harley-Davidsons leading Jack to believe the other bike was stolen by a biker gang. Jack and Gwen investigate several dive bars until they come across one that has been destroyed. Suddenly, the second giant bike comes out of the debris, piloted by, Drew Blayney, the leader of the bike gang. Back at the Hub, while Toshiko is investigating the bike she is possessed by the machine's AI. Toshiko's bike smashes through the wall of the Hub and begins to track down the second bike, bent on its destruction. Ianto manages to calm Toshiko down over the phone by getting her to remember a Japanese fable from her youth, thus allowing her to formulate a plan. Toshiko convinces Drew that his bike is about to self-destruct, leading him to state that he "does not want to die." The bike hears this and automatically initiates Drew's surrender. However, when Drew finds out he has been tricked, he tries to stab Toshiko leading the bike to shoot him for breaking the surrender agreement. Toshiko, as the New Champion, issues the bikes the order to shut down for good. | ||||
| 3 | "Rift War!" | Simon Furman | Paul Grist | 17 April 2008 - ? (10 parts) |
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Multiple Rift contacts appear across the city, out of which come a race of warmongering creatures. The entire team leave the Hub to take them down. The team quickly realise that their dispersal across the city was a device to distract the team. Jack asks one of the creatures what it wants to which it replies "war!" The creature then declares its race's wish to destroy Torchwood so that their Empire will not be wiped out by Torchwood's weapon, "the Rift." When the team return to the Hub, they find it has disappeared with Toshiko inside it... Toshiko manages to stop the Hub halfway to its destination by using the Rift Manipulator. It now hangs in a dark space. Jack tells Ianto and Gwen that the Harrowkind's distraction was so that a giant Rift storm could be generated to steal the Hub. When the Hub disappeared, so did all of the Harrowkind. However, Owen managed to deactivate and remove one of the recall devices from a dead soldier. Meanwhile, whilst Toshiko tries to reactivate the Rift Manipulator, she is confronted by a man named Vox. He tells Toshiko that when she cancelled out the Rift storm, she stayed exactly where she was but instead stopped her movement through time and is now stuck in the gap between one moment and the next. He tells her that he is hiding there from The Sanctified, the race who employ Harrowkind as shock-troopers. Vox gives Toshiko a miniature Rift Manipulator Device which he wears on his arm and tells her to activate it at the top of the water tower. Coming Soon |
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[edit] Continuity
- In "The Legacy of Torchwood One!", Ianto's fear is a man made of metal, possibly a reference to the Cybermen and his late girlfriend Lisa.
- One of the biker gangs mentioned in "Jetsam" is "Blaid Drwg" [sic].
- When Drew Blayney is possessed by the bike in "Jetsam", a picture of The Beast from Doctor Who episodes "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" is shown.
- Toshiko runs past a "Jubilee Pizza" restaurant in "Rift War! - Part One", the pizza chain seen in various episodes of Torchwood and the Doctor Who episode "Dalek". It is named after the audio drama Jubilee, the basis for "Dalek".
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Torchwood Magazine. Titan Magazines (2008-01-24). Retrieved on 2008-01-28.
[edit] References
- Torchwood at the Comic Book DB
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