Onomatopoeia (comic story)

Onomatopoeia was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine. It was written by Dan McDaid. It featured the Tenth Doctor and Majenta Pryce.

	Tenth Doctor
	Majenta
	Prospero
	Graveworld 909, 148,500
	Panini Comics
	Tom Spilsbury and Scott Gray
	Dan McDaid
	Mike Collins
	James Offredi
	Roger Langridge
	DWM 413
	17 September 2009
	14 October 2009
	Comic - 1 part
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Summary

The Doctor takes Majenta to Graveworld 909, where they find that the natives, who are rat-like humanoids, cannot speak. How will they get the people of Graveworld 909 to speak?

Plot

The Doctor and Majenta arrive on a planet like ancient Rome. They find they have lost the power of speech. They are attacked by a large sonic defence, but are rescued by rat creatures. The Doctor discovers the robots who are supposed to keep up the planet have fallen into disrepair. Before he can investigate, he, Majenta and the rat people are attacked by more sonic defences, one of which knocks out the Doctor. Majenta escapes and discovers the perpetrator of the silence. It is Prospero, the guardian of the planet, which is a graveworld of one of the Galactic Wars. Majenta has him rebooted, so he returns speech to the planet's inhabitants.

Characters

• Tenth Doctor
• Majenta Pryce
• Rat People
• Prospero

References

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Story notes

• This story is unusual in that there is no dialogue until the last two pages (due to the Doctor and Majenta temporarily losing the power of speech).
• Majenta's name is not mentioned at all during this comic.
• Unlike previous strips, Majenta's attitude towards the Doctor is noticeably more friendly.
• This was voted in the 2009 Doctor Who Magazine survey as the least popular comic strip that year.
• The Third Edition of Ahistory puts the date of this comic in the year 148,500.

Continuity

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