The Crystal Throne (comic story)

The Crystal Throne
Main character(s):	Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, Strax
Main enemy:	Lady Cornelia Basildon-Stone
Main setting:	London, late 19th century
Key crew
Editor:	Tom Spilsbury & Peter Ware
Writer:	Scott Gray
Artist:	David A Roach
Colourist:	James Offredi
Letterer:	Roger Langridge
Release details
Printed in:	DWM 475-476
Release date:	26 June - 24 July 2014
Cover date:	August 2014-September 2014
Format:	Comic, 2 parts
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The Crystal Throne was a two-part Doctor Who Magazine comic story published in 2014. It was printed in DWM 475 and 476. It did not feature the Doctor, but instead focused on the Paternoster Gang.

Summary

Part one

to be added

Part two

to be added

Characters

• Silas Ruckford
• Madame Vastra
• Jenny Flint
• Strax
• Inspector George Duncan Stringer
• Wilson
• Carter
• Lady Cornelia Basildon-Stone
• Ajeeth
• Tommy Corrigan
• Silurian scientist

References

• Strax says he is almost thirteen years old, the same age as Tommy.
• A genetic splicer is a device capable of creating new lifeforms by extracting the essence of one creature and merging it with another.
• Jenny is referred to as Madame Vastra's wife.

Notes

• This story would appear to have been written as a two-month filler to bridge the gap in the changeover between Doctors. Doctor Who Magazine would by this time no longer be able to use Matt Smith's Doctor in the comic strip, and also would not have been allowed to show Peter Capaldi before he had appeared on television in his first season as the Doctor.
• This story sees the first and, to date, only appearance of the Paternoster Gang in comic strip form.

Continuity

• Vastra uses the red setting on the Doctor's sonic screwdriver to make the ceiling of the greenhouse explode. River Song previously told the Tenth Doctor that his future screwdriver would have a red setting in TV: Forest of the Dead and the Eleventh Doctor's screwdriver had a red setting by the time of TV: Cold War.
• Tommy thanks Strax for a glass of milk, to which Strax proudly replies he made it himself. Strax previously stated he had gene-spliced himself for all types of nursing duties and could produce magnificent amounts of lactic fluid. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)