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Party Animals was a Seventh Doctor comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine. It was notable for concluding the loose "Bonjaxx's birthday" arc.
Summary
The Doctor and Ace travel to Maruthea for Bonjaxx's birthday party. Whilst there he encounters old friends and enemies, and has a glimpse of his future.
Characters
References
The Doctor
Foods and beverages
- The Doctor drinks water.
Individuals and species
- There are numerous species, mechanical beings and individuals present at the party, including the Master, a Draconian, a Silurian wearing a dress, a Sontaran, two Daleks, Shayde, a robot bus conductor, Abslom Daak, a Melkur, Worf, a Meep, a Wrarth Warrior, the Freefall Warriors, an Ergon, the Kandyman, an Ice Warrior, an Experimental Prototype Robot, a White Robot, Morbius, a Vervoid, an Alpha Centauran, Bart Simpson, Captain Britain, Hulk, a Robot Yeti, a Chumbley, a Ferengi, John Steed, Emma Peel, Sapphire and Steel.
- Ace has a new baseball bat.
Locations
- The trick to getting to Maruthea is apparently not to be there at all, causing you to be so.
Technology
- One of Bonjaxx's gifts appears to be the same shape as K9.
Theories and concepts
- The Doctor implies that the First Law of Time refers to meeting a previous or future incarnation of oneself.
Notes
- The likeness of the "future Doctor" is based on Nicholas Briggs, who portrayed the Doctor in the AudioVisuals series of unlicensed audio dramas.
Continuity
- The Doctor finally arrives on Maruthea for Bonjaxx's birthday party. (COMIC: Echoes of the Mogor!, Invaders from Gantac!, et al)
- An identical "Doctor" also appears in COMIC: The Final Chapter and Wormwood, but was revealed to be a disguise taken on by Shayde.
- Bonjaxx resembles the Daemon-like race seen in COMIC: Menace of the Molags.
