4-D War (comic story)

4-D War
Main enemy:	Order of the Black Sun
Main setting:	Gallifrey, the Rassilon Era
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics
Editor:	Dez Skinn
Writer:	Alan Moore
Artist:	Dave Lloyd
Letterer:	no credit given
Release details
Printed in:	Doctor Who Magazine Issue 51
Release date:	April 1981
Format:	B&W 1 part / 4 pages
DWM backup comic stories
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Summary

Twenty years after the loss of Rassilon, the Time Lords seek to retrieve Fenris from the Zone of No Return to learn the reason for his attempt to stop the Gallifreyan's control over time. Wardog and Rema-Du, the daughter of Lord Griffen, are successful in their attempt, but while the Council of Chronarchs await results from the brainfeelers, they are visited by the Order of the Black Sun, enemies from thirty thousand years in the future, who wipe out Fenris, the brainfeelers and several of the council before they disappear. In the chaos, Lord Griffen reflects on crimes yet to be committed.

Characters

• Fenris
• Lord Griffen
• Wardog
• Rema-Du

References

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Notes

• This is one of five collaborations between writer Alan Moore and illustrator David Lloyd, who would go on to create the graphic novel V for Vendetta.
• In 2012, Lawrence Miles said, "Alan Moore's back-up strips were an obvious influence on both Marc Platt's view of ye olde Gallifrey and my view of its future (Alien Bodies shares 95% of its DNA with its closest relative, 4-D War.)"

Original print details

Publication with page count and closing captions

1. DWM 51 (4) End

Reprints

Reprinted by Marvel in The Daredevils issue 6.

Continuity

• This story, along with the comics Star Death and Black Sun Rising, takes place during the Black Sun War.

Footnotes