The Prison Paradox, a new Doctor Who comics series featuring The Fifteenth Doctor and companion Belinda Chandra launches in November from Titan Comics.
In new adventure, first teased last month, the Fifteenth Doctor returns (as played by Ncuti Gatwa) alongside companion Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu), and an unlikely team of allies. Together, they have to infiltrate an inescapable prison facility in a forgotten part of the universe, holding monsters and villains from across the cosmos.
The Prison Paradox is written by Dan Watters (Doctor Who, Nightwing, Loki, Home Sick Pilots), with art by Sami Kivelä (Undone by Blood, Abbott, Machine Gun Wizards).
The cast of the new adventure features The Doctor, described as he last of his kind, a prisoner with “high intelligence” and a “persuasive with a quick wit”; Belinda Chandra, her home planet unknown, placing the tale sometime during events in the recent season of TV adventures; and H-8, a “surprisingly affable” prisoner convicted of weapons theft, who doesn’t remember what part of him is biological anymore, or what species he started out as. H-8 is armed and dangerous with weapons – including a Dalek gun (deactivated?) attached to his arm.
Also along for the dangerous ride are an Adipose, Annie, a member of a “parasite race” only able to reproduce through the death of others, who when discovered, are euthanised or imprisoned to prevent interplanetary epidemics; Felik of the Slitheen, from Raxacoricofallapatorius, convicted of piracy, who, embarrassed by her family’s history, fled them to become the pirate scourge of two galaxies and was endlessly hunted by her own kind; Meezan, a Tentaculon, an aquatic being made entirely out of tentacles; and the last of her kind. After her underwater planet became a desert, she returned to flood it, but was stopped by the land-dwelling species that had come to settle there.
The Prison Paradox will be in comic shops ahead of the expected launch of the Circuit Breaker, the latest mixed-media Doctor Who story in the style of 2020’s Time Lord Victorious.
Circuit Breaker stars Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor, a collaboration between BBC Studios, BBC Audio, Big Finish Productions, Doctor Who Magazine, East Side Games, Penguin Random House and Titan Comics, and, as we previously reported, tell an “ambitious interconnected narrative that will unfold across multiple formats, inviting fans to experience the mystery from every angle”.
Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor #2.1 – The Prison Paradox is expected to be in shops from Wednesday 5th November 2025
• Titan Comics is online at titan-comics.com
Titan Comics celebrated ten years of publishing its line of Doctor Who comics last year with its first Fifteenth Doctor mini-series, Everyone Must Go, available in collection, also written by Dan Watters, with art from Kelsey Ramsay and Valentina Bianconi, pitting the Time Lord and companion Ruby Tuesday (Millie Gibson) against the Cybermen.
• Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor Everyone Must Go is available here from AmazonUK (Affiliate Link)
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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
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