Party Animals (comic story)

Party Animals
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace, Ria
Featuring:	The Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Sixth Doctor
Main setting:	Time Vortex, Maruthea
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics
Editor:	John Freeman
Writer:	Gary Russell
Artist:	Mike Collins (pencils), Steve Pini (inks)
Letterer:	Glib
Release details
Printed in:	DWM 173
Release date:	15 May 1991
Format:	Comic - 1 part
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Party Animals was a Seventh Doctor comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine. It was notable for concluding the loose "Bonjaxx's birthday" arc.

Summary

The Doctor and Ace travel to Maruthea for Bonjaxx's birthday party. Whilst there he encounters old friends and enemies, and has a glimpse of his future.

Characters

• Seventh Doctor
• Ace
• The Doctor
• Ria
• Bonjaxx
• Death's Head
• Fourth Doctor
• Sixth Doctor

References

The Doctor

• The Seventh Doctor claims that the Rani and her giant mouse came to his graduation party.

Foods and beverages

• The Doctor drinks water.

Individuals and species

• There are numerous species, mechanical beings and individuals present at the party, including the Master, a Draconian, a Silurian, a Sontaran, two Daleks, Shayde, a bus conductor, Abslom Daak, Melkur, Worf, a Meep, a Wrarth Warrior, the Freefall Warriors, an Ergon, the Kandyman, an Ice Warrior, an Experimental Prototype Robot, a White Robot, Morbius, a Vervoid, an Alpha Centauran, Bart Simpson and Captain Britain.
• Ace has a new baseball bat.

Locations

• The trick to getting to Maruthea is apparently not to be there at all, causing you to be so.

Technology

• One of Bonjaxx's gifts appears to be the same shape as K9.

Theories and concepts

• The Doctor implies that the First Law of Time refers to meeting a previous or future incarnation of oneself.

Notes

• The likeness of the "future Doctor" is based on Nicholas Briggs, who portrayed the Doctor in the AudioVisuals series of unlicensed audio dramas.

Continuity

• An identical "Doctor" also appears in COMIC: The Final Chapter and Wormwood, but was revealed to be a disguise taken on by Shayde.
• Bonjaxx resembles the Daemon-like race seen in COMIC: Menace of the Molags.