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|companions        = [[Majenta Pryce]]
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|enemy             = [[Intersol]]
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|year              = [[2009]]
|series =[[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]
|writer           = [[Dan McDaid]]
|doctor = Tenth Doctor
|editor           = [[Tom Spilsbury]] and [[Scott Gray]]  
|companions = [[Majenta Pryce|Majenta]]
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|featuring = [[Zed (Thinktwice)|Zed]], [[Fanson]]
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|enemy = The [[Crimson Hand]]
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|setting = [[Earth]], [[2009]]<br />[[Justice Ship]]
|publication title = [[DWM Issue 416]] -  
|writer = Dan McDaid
|publication dates = 16th December 2009 -  
|editor = [[Tom Spilsbury]] and [[Scott Gray]]
|publisher         = [[Panini Comics]]
|artist = [[Martin Geraghty]] (pencils)<br />[[David A. Roach]] (inks) 
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|colourist = [[James Offredi]]
|previous story    = [[Ghosts of the Northern Line]]
|letterer  = [[Roger Langridge]]
|next story       =  
|publication = [[DWM 416]] - [[DWM 420]]
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|release date = 10 December 2009 - 1 April 2010
|publisher = Panini Comics
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|next = Supernature (comic story)
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'''''The Crimson Hand''''' was the final [[Tenth Doctor comic stories|Tenth Doctor comic strip]] to appear in the pages of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', concluding the "Panacea" story arc. The publication of its final part in ''DWM'' occurred two days before the premiere of the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s [[Series 5 (Doctor Who 2005)|first series]] on [[BBC One]].


==Summary==
== Summary ==
Intersol have searched the galaxy high and low for Majenta Pryce. They have finally found her, but what has she done wrong and what will be her fate?
[[Intersol]] have searched the galaxy high and low for [[Majenta Pryce]]. They have finally found her, but what has she done wrong? Will her past threaten to destroy the whole universe and what will be her fate?


==Plot==
== Plot ==
 
=== Part 1 ===
[[Intersol]] is chasing the Tardis it hits it, [[Justice]] (a telepathic computer) tells the Doctor and [[Majenta Pryce|Majenta]] to surrender now or be destroyed!
 
The Doctor and Majenta are in the Tardis, the doctor gets a message in the Tardis from himself, it says that the Tardis cannot leave the Time Zone. Suddenly a man appears as a hologram. he is called [[Finn Dargo]], Chief Marshall and Supreme Commander of the Intersol Fleet. He tells them that the Tardis is now the property of Intersol. He places them both under arrest and shoots a beam at the Doctor. The Doctor is hit, Majenta thinks he is dead, but Finn says he is stunned. Majenta escapes before he can knock her out.
 
On the ship, Finn says to Justice that Majenta made it out of the Tardis. Justice says that she will prepare an exacution cube for the Doctor but Finn stops her saying is is going to interrogate him. Meanwhile Majenta desguises herself as one of the guards.
 
Finn begins his interrogation of the Doctor, when the Doctor wonders what Intersol want with Majenta, he begins to show the Doctor clips of her past life. He says she is affiliated with the most dangerous criminal organision in the universe. Intersol thought they had caught her at [[ThinkTwice prison]] but Majenta had escaped with the Doctor. He then tracked her down to the Proxima system, to [[Stormlight House]], but they foiund nothing there. The Doctor speaks up for Majenta but gets tortured. A woman under a mask says "Is torture the right answer?"
 
Majenta boards a ship to try and escape and leave the Doctor but she is attacked by the masked woman. They fight but Majenta is on the floor quickly. The womans takes of her mask to reveal Zed, Majenta's cell mate in ThinkTwice Prison.&nbsp;Majenta&nbsp;asks Zed if it is her to which&nbsp;Zed replies "No, Majenta, it isn't..." and fires.
 
===Part 2===
Majenta wakes up inside the Justice computer banks/cells. She is sentenced to maximum interrogation. Zephyr goes to the Doctor's cell, and he realises that the TARDIS allowed Justice to hack into it because there is something dangerous stored in Majenta's mind. The Chief Marshal watches some of Majenta's recent memories through a neuroscopic probe, then manages to find one from before the Hotel Historia event, where Majenta joins the Crimson Hand. The Marshal finds a hidden room inside Majenta's memories, and then Justice detects four inbound energy signatures. It is the Crimson Hand.'' ''
 
===Part 3===
 
==Characters==
*[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]]
*[[Majenta Pryce]]
*[[Finn Dargo]]
*[[Zed (Thinktwice)|Zed]]
*[[Justice]]
 
==References==
''to be added''
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==Notes==
== Characters ==
* ''Doctor Who Magazine'' is promoting this strip as the final strip to feature the [[Tenth Doctor]]. The Tenth Doctor's illustrated adventures are expected to continue in comics produced by [[IDW Publishing]] to the end of 2010. Additionally, it will conclude the story of [[Majenta Pryce]].
* [[Tenth Doctor]]
* The story overlaps DWM's change of format associated with the [[Eleventh Doctor]].
* [[Majenta Pryce]]
 
* [[Zed (Thinktwice)|Zed]]
==Continuity==
* [[Trique]]
*[[Zed (Thinktwice)|Zed]] who was last seen in [[Thinktwice]] returns.
* [[Lunat]]
*In Finns memory scenes he shows the doctor the havock from [[Thinktwice]], characters seen are Zed (See Above) and [[Ceecee]]. In another clip we see the robot known as [[Owl]] and [[Violet]]. They appeared in [[Mortal Beloved]].
* [[Pollox]]
 
* [[Pi (The Crimson Hand)|Pi]]
==Timeline==
* [[Finn Dargo]]
*The Crimson Hand occurs after: [[DWM]]: [[Ghosts of the Northern Line]]
* [[Justice (computer)|Justice]]
*The Crimson Hand occurs before: [[DW]]'': [[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''
* [[Beetle (Mortal Beloved)|Beetle]]
 
* Mr. [[Odobenus]]
==External Links==
* [[Wesley Sparks]]
''to be added''
* [[Captain]] [[Skipton]]
 
* [[Sergeant]] [[Rice (The Crimson Hand)|Rice]]
 
* [[Danvers (The Crimson Hand)|Danvers]]
* [[Fanson]]
* [[Violet (Mortal Beloved)|Violet]]
* [[Owl (Mortal Beloved)|Owl]]


== Worldbuilding ==
* The [[Reaper]]s and [[Chronovore]]s live in [[the Morass (The Crimson Hand)|the Morass]].
* Majenta also mentions that the [[Crimson Hand]] had a segment of the [[Key to Time]].


== Notes ==
* This marks the final appearance of the [[Tenth Doctor]] in regular comic strip format. His final lines in his comic book tenure are, ''"Although... I am thinking of tendering my resignation, Madge. New horizons, new opportunities. That sort of thing."''


== Continuity ==
* The Doctor activates the TARDIS' [[Hostile Action Displacement System]] to escape the [[tractor beam]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Krotons (TV story)|The Krotons]]'')
* While prattling to delay his interrogation, the Doctor offers out an [[omelette]] recipe, continuing his fascination with the delicacy. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lodger (comic story)|The Lodger]]'', ''[[The First (comic story)|The First]]'', ''[[Thinktwice (comic story)|Thinktwice]]'')
* Intersol followed Majenta after her escape from [[Thinktwice]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Thinktwice (comic story)|Thinktwice]]'') looking for her at [[Stormlight House]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Mortal Beloved (comic story)|Mortal Beloved]]'')
* The Doctor reminds Zed of the destruction of the [[Knowsall]] at [[Thinktwice]], and how everyone but Majenta got their erased memories back. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Thinktwice (comic story)|Thinktwice]]'')
* Majenta mentions acquiring the ashes to the [[Tunguska Scroll|Scroll of Horath]], which was destroyed by [[Sarah Jane Smith]]'s [[sonic lipstick]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane (TV story)|Enemy of the Bane]]'')
* The Crimson Hand possess a shard of [[the Glory]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
* Majenta remembers having to seduce [[Wesley Sparks]] to prove her commitment to the Crimson Hand. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Mortal Beloved (comic story)|Mortal Beloved]]'')
* Majenta reveals the Crimson Hand were responsible for destroying the home world of the [[Skith]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Age of Ice (comic story)|The Age of Ice]]'')
* The Doctor deduces that [[Fanson]] wiped Majenta's mind clean so that the Crimson Hand couldn't follow the signal in her head. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Age of Ice (comic story)|The Age of Ice]]'')
* The Doctor says he can "live forever, barring accidents". ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')
* The Doctor is confident he will not die, at least "not yet", alluding to [[Carmen (Planet of the Dead)|Carmen]]'s prophecy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'')
* The Doctor is tempted to use the power of the Crimson Hand to resurrect Gallifrey and the Time Lords, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'') break down the barriers between dimensions and reunite with [[Rose Tyler]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') and bring back [[Donna Noble]]'s memories of him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
* Majenta once again tells the Doctor that he "ruined [her] life". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Thinktwice (comic story)|Thinktwice]]'')


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The Crimson Hand was the final Tenth Doctor comic strip to appear in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine, concluding the "Panacea" story arc. The publication of its final part in DWM occurred two days before the premiere of the Eleventh Doctor's first series on BBC One.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Intersol have searched the galaxy high and low for Majenta Pryce. They have finally found her, but what has she done wrong? Will her past threaten to destroy the whole universe and what will be her fate?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This marks the final appearance of the Tenth Doctor in regular comic strip format. His final lines in his comic book tenure are, "Although... I am thinking of tendering my resignation, Madge. New horizons, new opportunities. That sort of thing."

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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