thinking about how the thirteenth doctor's first appearance in the dwm comics shows her finding a lost alien child and giving her hope. the narrative parallels to the timeless child which hadn't even happened yet send me feral
So this is a quick overview of the different collections of Doctor Who comics out there, because it's not that scary actually.
The one thing about Doctor Who comics that does get a little complicated is that unlike other mediums, there's not really one Doctor Who comic publisher. Like if you're looking at books, that's Virgin Publishing then BBC Books, and if you're looking at audios that's Big Finish. But there have been a lot of comic publishers over the years. I'm gonna be focusing on the two big ones - DWM and Titan - but I'll include a list of other publishers at the end if you're curious.
Doctor Who Magazine comic collections
So Doctor Who magazine has been running a comic strip since its inception in the late 70s. This series has been pretty ongoing, and will occasionally reference stories from prior incarnations, but as a general rule of thumb, each new Doctor is a safe jumping-on point. The original comics were pretty lose in their interest in tying in directly to the tv show and had... highly variable quality. Both of these things would get ironed out during the Seventh Doctor era, making the Eighth Doctor era my recommended jumping-on point if you want to bypass all that. The biggest through-lines between these comics that bypass are the recurring characters of Shayde, Maxwell Edison, and Fey-Truscott Sade, so I'll let you know when they show up.
Fourth Doctor (with original companion Sharon Davies and K-9)
The Iron Legion
Dragon's Claw
Fifth Doctor (travelling solo. mostly. Introduction of Shayde and Maxwell Edison).
The Tides of Time
Sixth Doctor (with original companion Frobisher, and later on Peri).
Voyager
The World Shapers
The Age of Chaos
Seventh Doctor
A Cold Day in Hell! (travelling alone)
Nemesis of the Daleks (travelling alone)
The Good Soldier (with Ace)
Evening's Empire (with Ace)
Emperor of the Daleks (comics set in the VNA continuity with Ace and Benny)
Ground Zero (multi-Doctor event, ends with a Seven and Ace story)
Eighth Doctor (with original companion Izzy)
Endgame (introduction of Fey and return of Shayde and Maxwell Edison)
The Glorious Dead
Oblivion (first color DWM comics, more focus on Fey and Shayde)
The Flood
Ninth Doctor (with Rose)
The Cruel Sea
Tenth Doctor:
The Betrothal of Sontar (with Rose)
The Widow's Curse (with Martha and Donna)
The Crimson Hand (with original companion Majenta Pryce. Return of Maxwell Edison).
Eleventh Doctor:
The Child of Time (with Amy)
The Chains of Olympus (with Amy and Rory)
Hunters of the Burning Stone (finishes arc started in Chains of Olympus)
The Blood Of Azrael (with Clara)
Twelfth Doctor:
The Eye of Torment (with Clara)
The Highgate Horror (with Clara. Return of Maxwell Edison.)
Doorway to Hell (with original companion Jess, who was introduced as a one-off in The Highgate Horror)
The Phantom Piper (With Bill. Return of Fey and Shayde)
The Clockwise War (finishes arc started in The Phantom Piper. Return of Wonderland and Cornucopia from the Eleventh Doctor era. Also features miscellaneous comics from prior Doctors)
Thirteenth Doctor:
Mistress of Chaos (with Yaz, Graham, and Ryan)
The White Dragon (with Yaz, Graham, and Ryan
Monstrous Beauty (with Yaz and Dan. Also features miscellaneous comics from prior Doctors)
Fourteenth Doctor (no companions)
Liberation of the Daleks
Fifteenth Doctor (with Ruby Sunday)
The Monster Makers
Miscellaneous Doctors:
Land of the Blind
Backup comics (stories set in the Whoniverse but do not feature the Doctor)
The Return of the Daleks
Black Sun Rising (notable for featuring a trilogy of stories set on ancient Gallifrey)
Titan Comics Collections
So Titan comics works a bit differently in that it was, for a while, publishing lots of different comic lines at once, all of which were kinda unrelated to each other and most of which were telling their own dedicated storyline. After about three years of that, all of the lines were cancelled and replaced with a line that starred the Thirteenth Doctor at first and then sorta devolved into whatever the authors felt like doing.
Classic Doctors (standalone releases featuring Doctors from Classic Who)
Heralds of Destruction (Third Doctor and Jo Grant)
Gaze of the Medusa (Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane)
Operation Volcano (Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Counter-Measures)
A Matter of Life and Death (Eighth Doctor and original companion Josie Day)
Ninth Doctor (ongoing storyline with Rose, Jack, and original companion Tara)
Weapons of Past Destruction
Doctormania
Official Secrets
Sin Eaters
Tenth Doctor (One of the best comic runs out there and one of the best Tenth Doctor stories out there. Cannot overstate how much I love this run. Ongoing storyline with original companions Gabby and Cindy. Gabby and Cindy my beloved my absolute beloved)
Revolutions of Terror
The Weeping Angels of Mons
The Fountains of Forever
The Endless Song
Arena of Fear
The Sins of the Father
War of Gods
Facing Fate: Breakfast at Tyranny's
Facing Fate: Vortex Butterflies
Facing Fate: The Good Companion
Eleventh Doctor (Ongoing storyline with original companion Alice - and a bunch of temporary companions. Guest-stars the War Doctor and River Song)
After Life
Serve You
Conversion
The Then and the Now
The One
The Malignant Truth
The Sapling: Growth
The Sapling: Roots
The Sapling: Branches
Twelfth Doctor (Unlike the rest of the Titan series, this was not an ongoing storyline - instead it was independent stories featuring whoever was the companion onscreen at the time, making it in practice basically a worse equivalent to the DWM comics with the Twelfth Doctor. In my opinion)
Terrorformer (with Clara)
Fractures (with Clara)
Hyperion (with Clara. And also Kate Stewart)
The School of Death (with Clara. And also Kate Stewart)
The Twist
Sonic Boom
Ghost Stories
Time Trials: The Terror Beneath
Time Trials: The Wolves of Winter (with Bill, Nardole, and Missy)
Time Trials: A Confusion of Angels (with Bill, Nardole, and Missy)
Doctor Who Ongoing (again, started as a Thirteenth Doctor comic, then kinda devolved into whatever they felt like.)
A New Beginning (Thirteen Graham Ryan Yaz)
Hidden Human History (Thirteen Graham Ryan Yaz)
Old Friends (Thirteen Graham Ryan Yaz)
Time Out of Mind (Thirteen, Graham, Ryan, Yaz)
A Tale of Two Time Lords: A Little Help from My Friends (Thirteen, Graham, Ryan, Yaz, Ten, Martha)
Alternating Current (Thirteen, Graham, Ryan, Yaz, Ten, Rose)
The Master Plan (Missy, the Delgado Master)
Empire of the Wolf (Eleven, Eight, Rose)
Origins (Fugitive Doctor)
Once Upon a Time Lord (Ten, Martha)
Everyone Must Go (Fifteen, Ruby)
Crossover events:
Four Doctors (Crossover between Titan's Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor lines)
Supremacy of the Cybermen (Crossover between Titan's Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor lines)
The Lost Dimension: Book One (big overwhelming crossover part one)
The Lost Dimension: Book Two (big overwhelming crossover part two)
The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor (crossover between Titan's Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor lines)
Time Lord Victorious (Titan's tie-in to the Time Lord Victorious event, starring the Tenth Doctor and the Daleks)
A Doctor in the House? (Titan's tie-in to the Doom's Day event, starring Missy)
Other Comic Publishers
These are other places to have written Doctor Who comics. I don't really expect you to look into these, but I want to put them on here for completeness's sake.
Tv Action! - the original 60s tie-in comics. Features Dr. Who travelling with his grandchildren Joan and Gillum, to give you some idea of how in-continuity they are. Mostly hilariously bad, occasionally horrifyingly racist.
The Daleks - the OTHER 60s tie-in comics, starring the Daleks. Surprisingly good if you're interested in early Dalek history.
Radio Times comics - a short-lived run starring the Eighth Doctor that got cancelled pretty quickly. Eventually got tied into the EDA continuity by the guy who wrote them.
IDW Comics - they ran an official comic line before losing the license to Titan. Technically I could have included a third section for them but I didn't because that would be overwhelming and the comics aren't actually good enough to justify that.
Cutaway comics - the modern successor to DWM's backup strips, telling random stories in whatever parts of the universe they can license. Pretty good. They're the one to have done the Paradise Towers comic if you're interested.
Another Doctor Who comic companion piece, with Majenta Pryce added to the line-up! There will probably be more over time (because why not have as much fun with these characters as possible) but it'll probably run along at the pace that me and my friend go thru the comics, so right now we've got the main/longest running/most often appearing set of original to comic companions.
Ten's outfit specifically is from the comic story Agent Provocateur (as recommended by @poisonbat).
