Living in the Past (short story): Difference between revisions

'''''Living in the Past''''' was a short story in [[DWM 162]].  It was significant for being the first appearance of [[Ace]] in ''DWM'' fiction.  Morever, it offered an explanation for where she had been for the several years that had elapsed since her introduction on television — namely, that she had been living in the [[Cretaceous]] period of [[Earth]]'s pre-history.  

It, and ''[[Teenage Kicks]]'' that followed it, were unusual cases of ''DWM'' prose that was narratively continuous with the ''DWM'' comic strip.  The events of this story were in fact prefigured by the issue's comic story, ''[[Doctor Conkerer]]'', which was explicitly said to be the adventure immediately before the Doctor "picked up Ace".   

[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] arrives in Mongolia during the [[Cretaceous]] period to pick up Ace, whom he had dropped off there. Along the way he encounters a pit of [[Dhole]]s and an alien [[slave]] who has escaped from a nearby construction site. Ace arrives with a herd of various [[dinosaur]]s to trample the site, destroying it and freeing the slaves.

* While looking for Ace, the Doctor sees a [[tsintaosaurus]], a [[dsungaripterus]], a [[protoceratops]], and a [[velociraptor]].

* Ace leads thousands of dinosaurs, including [[ankylosaur]]s, [[tyrannosaurus rex|tyrannosaurs]], and [[bactrosaur]]s, to trample the alien construction site; she herself rides an [[Alioramus]].

This was the first appearance of [[Ace]] in a [[Marvel UK]] publication. It is unclear precisely what story precedes this for her.  The Seventh Doctor's entire runs in DWM and IHP precede this story.  Somewhere between [[DW]]: ''[[Survival]]'' and [[DWM]]: ''[[A Cold Day in Hell]]'' (the Seventh Doctor's first comic strip adventure), he dropped off Ace to live with dinosaurs only to pick her up again in this short story.