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Revision as of 05:28, 1 June 2024
Metamorphosis was a Seventh Doctor comic strip published in the 1993 Doctor Who Yearbook. One of the few comic stories to be intended for publication in colour prior to the use of digital colouring, it involved the Seventh Doctor slowly turning into a Dalek.
Publisher's summary
Part one
The Seventh Doctor and Ace arrive on board a spaceship and find that some of the youngest crew members have disappeared! The first part of a new comic strip by Paul Cornell and Lee Sullivan
Part two
The second part of Cornell and Sullivan's new comic strip. The villains have been exposed, and now the Doctor and Ace must find a way to defeat them!
Plot
to be added
Characters
- Seventh Doctor
- Ace
- The Captain
- Doctor Harding
- Black Dalek
- Red Dalek
- Liddell
- Lyons
Worldbuilding
- Time Lord bodies are very malleable under the right conditions.
- The Daleks recognise Ace in their archive.
- The Doctor creates a telepathic link with a Dalek.
- The angular TARDIS control room appears.
Notes
- Ace wears a skin-tight combat outfit and handles weapons, implying a Virgin Era Ace. However, Interweaving with the New Adventures places this story after Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark.
- The title is a reference to the Franz Kafka story of the same name, which tells the tale of a man transforming into an insect and the horrified reactions of those he knows.
- This comic was reprinted in the Panini graphic novel The Age of Chaos.
Continuity
- The Doctor mentions Earth's genetic pool becoming "muddy" after the Draconian Wars. (TV: Frontier in Space)
- The Doctor's mutating body emits Numismaton Gas. (TV: Planet of Fire)
- The Daleks are creating Human/Dalek hybrids (TV: Revelation of the Daleks) to add a Human Factor to their design. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)
