Genesis! (comic story): Difference between revisions

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|range           = DWM comic stories{{!}}DWM Comics

|image           = Cybermen!.jpg

|series         = [[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]

|doctor         = Sixth Doctor

|companions     = [[Peri Brown|Peri]], [[Frobisher]]

|enemy           = [[Professor]] [[Sovak]]

|setting         = [[Sylvaniar]]; [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]]   

|writer         = Alan McKenzie

|contributors    = [[Alan McKenzie]] (adapted by John Ridgway)

|artist         = [[John Ridgway]]

|editor         = [[Sheila Cranna]]

|colourist       =  

|letterer       = [[Annie Halfacree]]

|publication     = [[DWM 110]]

|release date   = 13 February 1986

|publisher       = Marvel Comics

|format         = Comic

|reprint         = DWMAC 1

|reprint2        = DWCC 16

|reprint4        = The World Shapers (graphic novel)

|reprint5        = Cybermen: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection

|prev           = Revelation! (comic story)

|next           = Nature of the Beast! (comic story)

In the castle on [[Sylvaniar]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Krogh|Captain Krogh]] discover a [[Cyberman]] with a [[human]] arm and leg attacking [[Rukh|Director Rukh]]. Krogh's attack is easily deflected, but when two guards enter with the recently attacked [[Sovak|Dr Sovak]], the Cyberman flees through a curtain. The curtain is against a solid wall, but the Doctor finds a secret passage. [[Kravaal|Dr Kravaal]] follows the Doctor and Krogh through the passage. The three find Dr Sovak manufacturing Cybermen in a secret laboratory. Sovak, who had faked his earlier attack, explains that some peasants took him to a crashed space vessel, where he discovered four damaged Cybermen. He has been rebuilding them with body parts taken from the kidnapped peasants.

Sovak orders his Cybermen to attack so he can control the castle, but he and they are electrocuted. Kravaal explains Sovak always had a problem with "heavy duty electrics". The electrics have caused a fire in the castle and the Doctor frees [[Peri Brown|Peri]] and [[Frobisher]] so they can escape in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. Unfortunately, Frobisher reveals he is suffering from [[mono-morphia]] and is stuck as a [[penguin]].

== Worldbuilding ==

* A model figure of a Cyberman with a human arm and leg — based on that seen in this story — was later produced by [[Fine Art Castings]].

* The Doctor recalls being a "[[Second Doctor|funny little man]]" several incarnations ago. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Power of the Daleks (TV story)|The Power of the Daleks}})