The Doctor will see you now.

At the end of last year's Doctor Who Christmas Special, when Peter Capaldi's 12th Doctor exploded into his next regeneration, Jodie Whittaker stepped out as the 13th iteration of the iconic character. We've had a few weeks of seeing her bright, sparky, excitable take on the Doctor (and her new "fam"), and Nov. 7 sees her take her first steps into another medium: comics.

Titan will start publishing her comic book adventures this month, with the bright, sparky and excitable team of Jody Houser, Rachael Stott, Enrica Eren Angiolini and letterer Comicraft at the unpredictable helm of the TARDIS. This will be one of the first times anybody has written her adventures, making the series, called Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor, pretty important for fans.

With the launch of the new series now nearly upon us, CBR spoke to the creative team as they prepared to do the time vworp again.

CBR News: The Thirteenth Doctor follows the newest regeneration of the character, this time portrayed by Jodie Whittaker. What was your reaction to the news that the Doctor will now be portrayed by a female actress?

Jody Houser: I had actually just come off a Doctor Who RPG show on Geek & Sundry with a female Doctor, so my first reaction was to message the other people from the show and say that we totally got it right!

Enrica Angiolini: I was very happy about it! Doctor Who has always been a very inclusive show, and I think this casting choice is very interesting. I don't see it as a huge revolution: The Doctor is still the Doctor, and I see it much more like the beginning of a new adventure, just like the previous regenerations. I'm sure Jodie will be amazing in this role, just like the all the actors who took on this role in the past.

Rachael Stott: To be honest, I would've been shocked if it hadn't been a woman. I think the fans were eager for a radical change, and I think the beauty of Jodie's casting is that on surface level it is radical. A character who has been played by a white man for 50 years is now played by a white woman. But when you read it like that -- it's not all that different. Same software, different case. Same silly old Doctor. Everything's different, and yet the character and the show we love will be the same as ever.

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There are so many possibilities here -- how will the Sontarans react to her? What would Missy or the Master say? As a storyteller, how do you think this changes or opens up the world of Doctor Who, and creates new possibilities for stories?

Houser: Those are interesting examples, because we've already seen Sontarans (or at least one) have trouble identifying sex/gender, and Missy has already gone through a similar regeneration. I think at the end of the day, the enemies of the Doctor in particular are used to new bodies and appearances of the one who always stops them.

Stott: I've had this discussion with a lot of people, and pretty much everyone has said that they want it to be exactly the same as ever, and for all the aliens, monsters and villains to not change how they talk to the Doctor. And I love that idea, and I get why people want that. Because to all the people complaining about Jodie's casting we can show it to them and go, "See? Nothing's different! You kicked up a fuss over nothing!"

But at the same time, the Doctor has often looked and acted like a pompous, bossy old man, and I like the idea that they try that on some army general, or Sontaran commander, and suddenly find themselves being treated differently. People they're trying to save not giving them the easy benefit of the doubt that they could enjoy when they looked like, say, Jon Pertwee. And maybe, for a second, show how drastically differently women are treated when they try to lead a situation or take command, or get people to accept their instructions.

Like, maybe there's a horrible fact about society which has made it a lot more convenient for the Doctor to look like an old white man for most of his life. It'd be a hard tightrope to walk, though, and doing it justice in a 50-minute episode would be so tricky. So, I wouldn't blame writers for sidestepping it.

At the time you took on the series, all we knew was that the Doctor has fallen out her TARDIS and had a cracking Yorkshire accent. Without giving too much away, what can we expect from your series as it starts?

Houser: I think the fact that she takes on three friends straight away and insists on calling them friends is a big shift from the more grumpy personality of Twelve. She's also a good bit younger in appearance and energy level now. And beyond that, I guess we'll see!

Stott: Gosh, I hope the BBC don't mind me giving too much away, but it'll be a Doctor Who story with new friends and a TARDIS, aliens, explosions... and dramatic line readings into camera.

Actually, joking aside, Jody's written a script that pushes all my art buttons, so together with Enrica I think we'll make a very exciting, beautiful, classic Who story.

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Enrica, what’s your approach as colorist on the series, and for the Thirteenth Doctor herself? What did you want to express about the character in your work?

Angiolini: When working on characters based on real people/actors, remaining faithful to them is a key factor for me. I want to make sure I can transmit Jodie's emotions and her expressions; all the things that will characterize her Thirteenth Doctor. So far, working on the pages for The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor with Tennant and Smith's Doctors, I have had so much fun bringing the atmospheres and the colors of the TV show into my work. I'm looking forward to doing the same with the Capaldi mini-episode, and then with our upcoming Thirteenth Doctor series, of course.

What do you all view as the essence of this character? Individually, what does she bring to this regeneration, for you? What’s your focus?

Stott: I think the essence of the character weirdly lines up very well with that classic Spider-Man line about great power. The Doctor is an adventurer, an explorer, a truly curious wandering spirit, but with the power to make things right, and good and just. And because they can do those things they have to. And they want to. Because it's fun.

Houser: Our focus to start is to see how this new Doctor deals with a very Doctor-type situation -- a strange mystery that involves someone who needs her help. This is actually being set up in the Road to Thirteen backups, so in a sense, we're seeing how the new incarnation of the Doctor reacts as compared to her previous regenerations.

As for the essence of the Doctor across incarnations, I think Twelve summed it up pretty well: "Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind." Adventure and empathy and seeing the beauty in things big and small, no matter how many years you've been running.

Rachael, what’s it like drawing Jodie Whittaker? A lot of artists said they found Matt Smith’s likeness hard to get right, and we already know you have a close working relationship with Peter Capaldi’s face, but how have you found drawing the Thirteenth Doctor?

Stott: Ha! I love drawing Jodie because she's so expressive. You can really play around with her face quite a bit and keep the likeness looking close.

Her hair doesn't have the topiary topology of Capaldi's, so it's a lot quicker to draw, but the fact her face is so smooth means that I have to be a bit more restrained with my line rendering, so you have to nail the likeness with fewer lines -- which can be tricky, but a fun challenge. And the silhouette of her costume is iconic and awesome, I love it.

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The Doctor usually has a companion along for the ride, someone for her to bounce off from. In the show, there’ll be three new companions -- will they be in this series, or will you be creating your own companion (like Titan have previously for the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors) for this adventure?

Stott: I think this counts as spoilers, so no idea.

The preview pages released just last week by Titan may have given this away, in fairness. Jody, what kind of style have Rachael and Enrica brought to the story so far? What excites you about their artwork on the series? How’ve you found working together on the comic? What’s the collaborative process been like?

Houser: Rachael is an old hand at this, so having someone more experienced with working on Doctor Who on the team is great. Enrica's colors are really suited to Rachael's art... I love what the two of them are doing together. I'm also glad Enrica loves working on detailed patterns -- I was feeling guilty about some of the costuming in the Twelve backup! So far, working with both of them has been lovely, and I hope we work together for quite a while!

Stott: I've always wanted to work with Jody ever since I read Faith, and you can tell she's having so much fun on Who. I hadn't worked with Enrica before now, but holy... heck, does she make my work look three hundred times better. She's such a fantastic colorist, her lighting is incredible and a brilliant artist in her own right. I recommend you check out her stuff. I'm such a big fan of hers already.

Were you Doctor Who fans coming into the series? If so, what was your entryway into Doctor Who as a whole? Who was your first Doctor, and what was it about the series which pulled you in?

Stott: I started watching with the Eccleston series -- my Dad told me I'd like it and he was not wrong, to put it mildly. So Eccleston was my first, but Capaldi is my Doctor. By the end of Smith's run, my interest in it had waned a lot. I still watched it, but like on iPlayer and so on. I still think all his run is fantastic, it's just you naturally have peaks and troughs in your interest in different shows. Then, when Capaldi stepped into the role, I went back to being full-blown, wibbly wobbly, where's my fez, don't be lasagna, fangirl mode. It was a fun time.

Angiolini: I started months ago, with the first season of the Tenth Doctor, and I am now watching episode 8 of Season 10 (yup, right now, I just stopped to reply to this interview!). So, my first Doctor was David Tennant! I started directly with him because I was about to work on the Road to the Thirteenth Doctor pages on the Tenth Doctor, so I wanted to make sure I was up to speed and that I was faithful to the setting and the characters. These nine seasons have been great company while I worked!

Houser: My first Doctor was actually the Eighth Doctor movie on Fox back in the '90s! I picked back up with the new series when it started airing in the U.S. and been watching ever since. I've done some digging into classic Who, but not as much as I'd like. But now I can say it's for work, can't I?