The Crystal Throne (comic story)

The Crystal Throne

Key crew

Editor:

Tom Spilsbury, Peter Ware

Writer:

Scott Gray

Artist:

David A Roach

Release details

Printed in:

DWM 475-476

Release date:

26 June - 24 July 2014

Cover date:

August 2014-September 2014

Format:

Comic, 2 parts

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The Crystal Throne was a two-part Doctor Who Magazine comic story published in 2014. It was printed in DWM 475 and 476. It did not feature the Doctor, but instead focused on the Paternoster Gang.

Summary

Part one

to be added

Part two

to be added

Characters

References

Strax says he is almost thirteen years old, the same age as Tommy.
A genetic splicer is a device capable of creating new lifeforms by extracting the essence of one creature and merging it with another.
Strax mentions neutrino badgers.

Notes

This story served as a two-month filler to bridge the gap in the changeover between Doctors.
This story sees the first appearance of the Paternoster Gang in comic strip form. They later appeared in strip of The Daft Dimension and Strax appeared in Sonic Sleuth and Time Gentlemen, Please! but without Vastra and Jenny.
Certain references made by Strax towards the Sikh Ajeeth's turban led to a reader's letter of complaint being published in DWM 478, followed by an apology by editor Tom Spilsbury.

Continuity

Vastra uses the red setting on the Doctor's sonic screwdriver to make the ceiling of the greenhouse explode. River Song previously told the Tenth Doctor that his future screwdriver would have a red setting in TV: Forest of the Dead and the Eleventh Doctor's screwdriver had a red setting by the time of TV: Cold War.
Tommy thanks Strax for a glass of milk, to which Strax proudly replies he made it himself. Strax previously stated he had gene-spliced himself for all types of nursing duties and could produce magnificent amounts of lactic fluid. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)

Paternoster Gang stories

Paternoster Gang

Television

A Good Man Goes to War • The Great Detective • The Snowmen • The Crimson Horror • The Name of the Doctor • Deep Breath

Audio

The Paternoster Gang	Prelude Heritage • The Cars That Ate London! • A Photograph to Remember • The Ghosts of Greenwich • Dining with Death • The Screaming Ceiling • Spring-Heeled Jack • Family Matters • Whatever Remains • Truth and Bone • Merry Christmas, Mr Jago • The Ghost Writers • Rulers of Earth • The Ghost and the Potato Man • Symmetry of Death • Till Death Us Do Part • Anne of a Thousand Light Years • Pater Noster • The Gentlemen Thieves

The Eighth of March	Inside Every Warrior

Once and Future	The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50

Prose

Devil in the Smoke • Silhouette • The Pest of Paternoster Row • The Paternoster's Guide to London • The Red-Eyed League • A Perfect Christmas • The Crimson Horror

The Paternoster Gang Investigates	The Singular Case of the Blue Men of the Minch • The Phantom of the Music Hall • The Giant's Heart • The Singular Case of the Time Machine • The Tudor Engagement • The Curious Case of the Misery Diary • The Spectre of Paternoster Row • The Case of the Dissolving Man • The Confounding Case of the Planetary Prankster • The Importance of Being Strax • The Case of the Curious Fugitive • The Pernicious Plots of the Big Game Hunter • The Dangerous Dilemma of the Dream Doorway • The Terror of the Thames • The Pneuman League • The Curious Case of the Miniature Menaces • The Fear Factory • The Insidious Ideas of the Danger Thinkers • The Howling on the Hills • The Evolution Episode • Assassin on the Railroads • The Inscrutable Illusionist • The Curious Conundrum of the Weirdling Wood