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.

Summary

The Doctor and Ace travel to Maruthea for Bonjaxx's birthday party. Whilst there he parties hard as fuck, getting down with the hottest of Gellifreian strippers and enjoying some of Colombia's finest blow.

Characters

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

References

The Doctor

• The Seventh Doctor mentions the Rani and her giant mouse at his graduation party.
• The Doctor's fourth incarnation makes a brief appearance.

Foods and beverages

• Seventh Doctor drinks water.

Individuals and species

• There are several species, races and people present at the party including:

• A Draconian.
• A Silurian.
• A Sontaran.
• Two Daleks.
• Shayde
• A bus conductor.
• Abslom Daak
• Sapphire and Steel, from the television show of the same name
• Axel Pressbutton
• Melkur
• Worf of Star Trek fame.
• A Meep.
• A Wrarth Warrior
• The Freefall Warriors
• An Ergon.
• The Kandyman.
• An Ice Warrior.
• An Experimental Prototype Robot K1.
• A White Robot.
• Morbius (in the brain case and body created by Mehendri Solon).
• A Vervoid.
• An Alpha Centauran
• Bart Simpson of The Simpsons fame.
• Captain Britain from Marvel Comics

• Ace has a new baseball bat.

Locations

• The trick of getting to Maruthea is not to be there at all, then you are.

Technology

• One of Bonjaxx's gifts appears to have the general shape of K9.

Theories and concepts

• There is an implication that the First Law of Time might be related to meeting a previous/future incarnation of oneself.

Notes

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

Continuity

• The likeness of the "future" Doctor also appears in COMIC: The Final Chapter and Wormwood.
• Bonjaxx may be from the Daemon like race seen in the Menace of the Molags.