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The Steel Web is a Doctor Who Adventures comic story featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond.

Summary

The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond are n route to see the beautiful orchards of Pomarius when the TARDIS gets trapped in a giant metal spider web. The Doctor arms himself and begins cutting through the web. Amy notices someone trapped in the web. The Doctor frees the captive and they retreat inside the TARDIS.

The newcomer is called Heldan, a farmer on Pomarius. His people created the cyborg spiders to help deal with an attack by fruit flies. However the spiders got out of control and spun their web across the whole planet.

The spiders are programmed to hunt fruit flies, so the Doctor makes up a foul smelling purple mixture and ‘pours it into the engines’, making the TARDIS smell like fruit flies. When the TARDIS takes off, the spiders are drawn into space, heading for an uninhabited world where they can spin their web without harming anyone.

Characters

References

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Notes

  • In a somewhat suspect story, the penultimate page ends with a question asking the reader if they spotted something that made the spiders stop – the answer is "nope!" Yet in the next frame, the Doctor is mixing up a liquid to pour into the TARDIS engines (!) to make it smell like a fruit fly, He then lures the cyborg spiders away from Pomarius to another planet! If it was the fact that the spiders were programmed to attack fruit flies, where was the threat to Heldan or the Doctor?
  • The DWA comic strip adventures were aimed at a younger audience and the artwork and colours were bold and bright, reflecting the tone of the magazine.
  • Self contained, one part stories were the norm.

Original print details

Publication with page count and closing captions
  1. DWA 185 (4 pages) NEXT WEEK – The Doctor and Amy deal with some freaky food
  • No reprints to date.

Continuity

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