The Monster Upstairs (comic story)
Summary
part one
The Doctor thinks it is important to brush up on his alien languages even though the TARDIS has a universal translator. He reads a book called You Want To Speak Clang’n. Others sit beside him: Kavese, the Easy Way and Conversational Clangon. The collision avoidance compensators fail again and the TARDIS hits an interstellar body with a planetary mass, atmosphere in the middle of a major galactic bypass. The floor is squishy and it seems made of paper mache. It is comprised of vegetable fibers bonded with hydrogen and wood pulp. He finds a ship that had a crew that managed to eject in time. He finds a warning beacon and a paper that is handed out at spaceports: the Daily Eon…all the discarded copies end up here. A green bunny man asks for help from a digital ink on one of the pages of the sports section. The Doctor tells the bunny that his hobby is printing and that he gave the Chinese a few pointers on moveable blocks, way back during the Tang Dynasty. The bunny is Ray Royce, Hoopball Superstar and head sports writer at the Eon. He’s trapped in the New Factory. Hundreds of writers didn’t read the small print on their contracts and now they are being held and forced to work on staff. The Doctor has a few issues with the Daily Eon himself. The Doctor will find the address on the Letters to the Editor page. Soon the TARDIS arrives, Ray telling the Doctor to unfold him so he can see his way around. The Doctor finds crystalline memory that can store the neural matrices of a million sentient life forms, people, civilizations, or disgruntled journalists. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to try to stop the machine but a metal claw comes out of a wall and knocks him off a ledge toward giant rollers of a Robo Copier. They detect the Doctor and figure he has over 900 years of stories to tell. If scanned, the Doctor will end up trapped, too. The Doctor ask the flying attacking machines to take him to their Editor. They scan him and digitise…
Characters
Original Print Details (Publication with page count and closing captions)
- DWA Issue 46 (6 pages)
- DWA Issue 47 (6 pages)
Reprints
- None to date
Notes
- The DWAM comic strip adventures were very much aimed at a younger audience and the artwork and colours was bold and bright reflecting the tone of the magazine..
- Self contained one part stories were the norm in the early issues later being expanded to two-parters.
References
- The Judoon are mentioned to have cost the Extron its body.
Continuity
to be added
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