The Last Word (comic story)
The Last Word was a Doctor Who Magazine comic story which celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Virgin New Adventures. Consequently, it featured the Seventh Doctor, Benny and an older Ace. As of June 2013[update], it remained the latest Seventh Doctor strip printed in the pages of DWM. Though the Seventh Doctor did make a few more comic appearances after Word — perhaps most extensively in IDW Publishing's The Forgotten, this was the last story in which he exclusively starred. Similarly, it was the final starring gig in comics for both his companions.
Although the Seventh Doctor had been in one fully-coloured story before, this was the character's first appearance in the pages of DWM after the magazine permanently moved to a colour strip. As a result it was the one Seventh Doctor comic that had the most sophisticated use of colour.
To those fans who followed the comic strip, but not the New Adventures, the story would likely have been most notable for how little sense it made. Coming as it did over seven years since Benny's last appearance in a DWM comic story, and in the middle of the [{Eighth Doctor]]'s run, the story was surprisingly light The story itself made very little sense as a stand-alone story, since it pre-supposed significant knowledge of the
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- The Timewyrm was last seen in PROSE: Happy Endings.
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