Star Beast II (comic story)

Star Beast II
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fourth Doctor]]
Main enemy:	Beep
Main setting:	Wrarth Galaxy and Blackcastle, England, UK, Earth, 1995
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Marvel UK]]
Editor:	Scott Gray
Writer:	Gary Gillatt
Artist:	Martin Geraghty
Colourist:	Paul Vyse
Release details
Format:	Comic - 8 pages

Summary

Beep the Meep is freed on parole after fifteen years of incarceration for his crimes. The Black Star drive with which he enslaved people has been removed from his ship. Beep returns to Blackcastle, Earth, where he had crashed years before and hidden away a spare drive.

Attempting to go to Unicepter IV for Sharon Davies' wedding, the Fourth Doctor inadvertently ends up in Blackcastle where he'd first met Sharon and her schoolmate Fudge Higgins. The TARDIS has materialised at a cinema, so the Doctor decides to leave K9 in the TARDIS (having noticed a NO PETS sign) and watch a Lassie film.

Beep arrives at the cinema, underneath which his spare Black Star drive is buried. Holding the Doctor at gunpoint, Beep detonates a grenade to expose the buried component. The Doctor escapes from the explosion and runs into the cinema's owner, Colin Higgins – a now grown-up Fudge. The two escape to the projection booth, whereupon the Doctor converts the projector to a black light receiver. Activating it imprisons Beep within the Lassie film which was loaded into the projector.

Characters

• Fourth Doctor
  • is wearing the burgundy version of his outfit
• K9 Mark II
  • stays in the TARDIS
• Fudge Higgins
  • has grown up and owns a multiplex cinema
• Beep
• Zagran, a Wrarth Warrior
• Scrages
• Theka, a Lord of Althrace
• Jones
• two Wrarth Warrior prison warders

Notes

• This story is a sequel to DWM: The Star Beast.
• Fudge's first real name is revealed; he wears a nameplate on his lapel which reads COLIN HIGGINS.

References

• K9 tells the Doctor that the year is 1995.

Continuity

• Sharon Davies' wedding on Unicepter IV is mentioned. (DWM: Dreamers of Death)

Timeline

• Star Beast II takes place after DWM: Dreamers of Death
• Star Beast II takes place before DWM: The Life Bringer