Firelight (comic story)

Firelight
Doctor:	Tenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Martha
Main enemy:	Pyromeths
Main setting:	Pyrometh realm
Key crew
Publisher:	Titan Publishing Group
Writer:	Dan Slott
Artist:	Christopher Jones & Matthew Dow Smith
Colourist:	Charlie Kirchoff & Mariane Gusmão
Letterer:	Comicraft's Richard Starkings
Release details
Printed in:	Once Upon a Time Lord
Release date:	7 November 2023
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Firelight was the main comic story published in Titan Publishing's Once Upon a Time Lord graphic novel, starring the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones.

Summary

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Characters

• Tenth Doctor
• Martha Jones

Flashback

• First Doctor
• Second Doctor
• Jamie McCrimmon
• Third Doctor
• Jo Grant
• Fourth Doctor
• Leela
• K9 Mark I
• Fifth Doctor
• Nyssa
• Sixth Doctor
• Frobisher
• Seventh Doctor
• Ace
• Eighth Doctor
• Molly O'Sullivan
• Ninth Doctor
• Rose Tyler

Worldbuilding

• Bobalabinko holds a county fair every other week.
• Bobalabinko is 827 Light-years away from Earth.
• Bobalabinko has a drink that tastes exactly like ginger ale.
• Martha used to come up with "the best" bedtime stories for her brother Leo.

Notes

• This story marks the first appearance of Molly O'Sullivan in a comic story. She is also the first Big Finish companion to have a speaking role in a comic story. Charley Pollard, Lucie Miller and Liv Chenka previously appeared in Vortex Butterflies and The Good Companion in a montage of companions.

Continuity

• When telling their companions about the Pyromeths, different incarnations are travelling with their respective companions
  • The Second Doctor is travelling with Jamie McCrimmon. (TV: The Highlanders ^[+]Loading...["The Highlanders (TV story)"], etc.)
  • The Third Doctor is travelling with Jo Grant. (TV: Terror of the Autons ^[+]Loading...["Terror of the Autons (TV story)"], etc.)
  • The Fourth Doctor is travelling with Leela and K9. (TV: The Invisible Enemy ^[+]Loading...["The Invisible Enemy (TV story)"], etc.)
  • The Fifth Doctor is travelling with Nyssa. (TV: Logopolis ^[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"], etc.)
  • The Sixth Doctor is travelling with Frobisher. (COMIC: The Shape Shifter ^[+]Loading...["The Shape Shifter (comic story)"], etc.)
  • The Seventh Doctor is travelling with Ace. (TV: Dragonfire ^[+]Loading...["Dragonfire (TV story)"], etc.)
  • The Eighth Doctor is travelling with Molly O'Sullivan. (AUDIO: The Great War ^[+]Loading...["The Great War (audio story)"] etc.)
  • The Ninth Doctor is travelling with Rose Tyler. (TV: Rose ^[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], etc.)
• Admiral Scarr uses the Sycorax motto, "Sycorax strong! Sycorax mighty! Sycorax rock!". (TV: The Christmas Invasion ^[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])
• The Doctor notes that he would "usually point and laugh at archeologists". (TV: Silence in the Library ^[+]Loading...["Silence in the Library (TV story)"])
• The Doctor mentions that the Osiran puzzles on Mars were "a lot easier" than the ones in the Osiran Temple. (TV: Pyramids of Mars ^[+]Loading...["Pyramids of Mars (TV story)"])
• Amidst the residents of the Osiran Realm of the Dead are Zygons (TV: Terror of the Zygons ^[+]Loading...["Terror of the Zygons (TV story)"], Menoptera (TV: The Web Planet ^[+]Loading...["The Web Planet (TV story)"]), Robot Yeti (TV: The Abominable Snowmen ^[+]Loading...["The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)"], etc.), Draconians (TV: Frontier in Space ^[+]Loading...["Frontier in Space (TV story)"]), Terileptils (TV: The Visitation ^[+]Loading...["The Visitation (TV story)"]), Wirrn (TV: The Ark in Space ^[+]Loading...["The Ark in Space (TV story)"]), Ice Warriors (TV: The Ice Warriors ^[+]Loading...["The Ice Warriors (TV story)"], etc.), Sycorax (TV: The Christmas Invasion ^[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"]), Krillitane (TV: School Reunion ^[+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"]), Ood (TV: The Impossible Planet ^[+]Loading...["The Impossible Planet (TV story)"], etc.), Slitheen (TV: Aliens of London ^[+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"], etc.), Sontarans (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem ^[+]Loading...["The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)"], etc.), Gelth (TV: The Unquiet Dead ^[+]Loading...["The Unquiet Dead (TV story)"]), The Sisters of Plenitude (TV: New Earth ^[+]Loading...["New Earth (TV story)"], etc.), The Wolf (TV: Tooth and Claw ^[+]Loading...["Tooth and Claw (TV story)"]), Cybermen (TV: Rise of the Cybermen ^[+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"], etc.), Daleks (TV: Dalek ^[+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], etc.), and the Racnoss (TV: The Runaway Bride ^[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"]).
  • Matron Casp and the Sisters of Plenitude remember the Doctor from his trip to New New York. (TV: New Earth ^[+]Loading...["New Earth (TV story)"]).
  • The Wolf from the Torchwood Estate remembers the Doctor ending his suffering. (TV: Tooth and Claw ^[+]Loading...["Tooth and Claw (TV story)"])
  • The Ood claim to be "The Legion of The Beast". (TV: The Impossible Planet ^[+]Loading...["The Impossible Planet (TV story)"], The Satan Pit ^[+]Loading...["The Satan Pit (TV story)"])
  • John Lumic and his Cybermen remember the Doctor (TV: Rise of the Cybermen ^[+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"], The Age of Steel ^[+]Loading...["The Age of Steel (TV story)"]), and fight the Daleks (TV: Doomsday ^[+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"]).
  • The Empress of the Racnoss and her children were all killed by the Doctor. (TV: The Runaway Bride ^[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"]).