Miranda - Comic Book Mini-Series

Miranda is a six-issue limited series from Comeuppance Comics featuring the Doctor’s adopted daughter from the BBC novel Father Time. Miranda thought she was a perfectly ordinary British teenager, but, much to her surprise, it seems that she’s really Empress of the Universe. Now she has to unite the warring factions of the far future and survive more assassination and coup attempts than she can count, never knowing who she should trust...

Miranda, who thought herself to be an ordinary British teenager of the 1980s, has been abducted by beings from the far-distant future and told that she is in fact the long-lost heir of the notorious Imperial Family. Following a universal cataclysm, the race which caused the disaster came to rule over the chaos. Miranda’s real father was assassinated when she was a baby, but Imperial sympathisers hid her in the past while the empire collapsed into a thousand warring factions, all struggling for power. Now Prefect Ferran, the leader of one such faction, has found Miranda, and the Supremacy, a ship capable of travelling anywhere in time and space, transports her billions of years into the future to take her rightful place as Empress and unite the warring factions. In order to do so, however, she will have to survive numerous assassination attempts from individual parties with their own varied agendas. She has a vast army at her disposal -- or rather, at Ferran’s -- and her new home will be the Needle, an artificial structure one light year in length. Already overwhelmed, Miranda soon has something else to worry about, as her maidservant slips her a note warning her that Ferran intends to kill her...

Ferran escorts Miranda to a reception at which she meets and mingles with representatives of the factions which she is expected to unit. She is also reunited with the maid who slipped her the warning note, but the maid refuses to discuss the matter in public and promises to explain all later. However, Miranda is then attacked by a large flying assassin and plucked out of the reception. Her attacker kills one of the skywardens sent to rescue her, and drops Miranda in the process; however, Miranda seizes the skywarden’s jetpack, and although she’s unable to use it properly, it does cushion her fall. When Miranda inadvertently triggers it a second time, it jets straight into her attacker and explodes. Shaken, Miranda retreats to her quarters for a bath, and while she’s there, the maid who slipped her the warning note -- Keli -- explains that Ferran intends to gain personal political power by forcing Miranda to marry him and then disposing of her. Unfortunately, Ferran has circumvented Keli’s safeguards, and is now aware of everything that she’s just said to Miranda...

Keli promises to find Miranda somewhere to hide, informing her that only 2% of the Needle’s enormous structure has been mapped out. However, Ferran hires freelancers Rum and Thelash to track her down, claiming that she’s been kidnapped, and he sends his robot adjutant along with them to ensure that Miranda is returned directly to him. Meanwhile, Keli takes Miranda to a forest on the surface of the Needle, where Miranda meets Keli’s brother, Mack Gideon -- a hero to some, a traitor to others. Gideon explains that Ferran wants Miranda as his bride because her genetic structure is the key to the Librarinth, a storehouse containing all of the lost technology and knowledge of the Universe. Ferran’s robot adjutant then catches Miranda and Gideon together, but Miranda takes Gideon’s gun and shoots the robot before it can take her back to Ferran. However, Rum and Thelash are right behind it, and they strike down Gideon before Miranda even knows they’re there...