Dr. Who: Autopia (One-Shot)

in comics is of course the adaptation of the long-running and cult favorite science-fiction television program produced by the BBC about a space-time traveling alien known as "the Doctor" who, with his companions--Donna in this case--explores time and space, solving problems, facing monsters and righting wrongs. IDW Publishing currently publishes the Dr. Who series. In this standalone story, a world, Autopia, mastered robotics millennia ago and decided to close off the world and let the robots do all the grunt work while the inhabitants sat back and created art and philosophy. Five beings calling themselves The Chronos Mission slipped through Autopia's security field to check up on them a century prior to the story and they were never heard from again. And Autopia upgraded their security field so no one's been able to get in since, to find out what happened. Until the Doctor and Donna, that is.

An All-American creative team tackles the celebrated Doctor in this special standalone tale. John Ostrander () writes and Kelly Yates () illustrates an adventure where the Doctor and his companion Donna arrive on a utopian planet where robots do all the manual labor. But things aren't quite what they seem... --

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