I Scream (comic story)
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I Scream is a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2012.
Summary
The Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams have just escaped the Firemen of Fleengarr. They board the SS Greensleeves. A few hours before, it was boarded by space pirates. As they explore, they find the ship apparently empty. Something appears to have erupted from one of the large vats of ice cream that the ship was carrying and jammed the thermostats on defrost.
When they find the control deck of the ship, it is covered in a web-like substance. Inside the web, trapped, like flies, are the original crew and the space pirates from a few hours earlier – still being kept alive. They are suddenly aware of a large creature with a fluid shape – a hybrid carnivorous hypomorph. It is a ravenous, meat-eating creature which has fused its DNA with the proteins, minerals and vitamins of the ice cream.
Rory’s observation about the temperature gives the Doctor an idea. Boarding an escape pod, the Doctor, Amy and Rory lure the creature away. As the pod blasts off into space, the creature is drawn by the heat, but the cold of space freezes it and makes it solid and unable to move. As “a solid scoop of ice cream”, the creature drifts in space while the Doctor returns the pod to the ship to collect the TARDIS.
Named characters
References
- The SS Greensleeves carries the best ice cream across space to the best beaches in the universe.
- Amy Pond prefers double-mint choc chip ice cream to vanilla.
Notes
- The SS Greensleeves is inspired by the design of an ice cream van and the pod blasting off resembles a ice cream cone.
Original print details
- Publication with page count and closing captions
- DWA 273 (4 pages) DON’T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!
- No reprints to date.
Continuity
- The TARDIS’s arrival occurs immediately after an unseen encounter with the Firemen of Fleengaar.
- Amy Pond believes her hair to have been singed in a recent encounter. Rory Williams describes it as “flame red”.
