Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time (comic story)
Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time was a piece of meta-fiction printed within Doctor Who Magazine, showing the writer of the story discussing his childhood growing up with the show with the Doctor himself. Unlike COMIC: TV Action! or COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who, there is nothing in the story to suggest that this is set an an alternate dimension where the Doctor's life is chronicled in a TV show, and in fact Sean himself doesn't believe the events of the story to be real within the narrative itself.
The story serves as a transition between the two comics which fell directly before and after its printing — Ground Zero (the final continuous Seventh Doctor story) and Endgame (the first continuous Eighth Doctor story). The Eighth Doctor's run on Doctor Who Magazine would be approached with a more direct and consistent manor, as they decided to form their own story-lines and their own take on the character. This was immediately marked with the introduction of Izzy Sinclair, making the story the first to have an entirely unique set of companions since the early strips featuring Frobisher. The comics featuring the Seventh and Eighth Doctors were so totally different in both direction and legacy that it was essential that there was a "break" issue, much like the absence of a comic in DWM 354.
Summary
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Plot
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Characters
References
- Wirrn are seen on a television screen.
- A Sontaran appears in a field.
- The Master seems to appear as a teacher.
- Sean constructs a plasticine Kraal.
- The Doctor pulls out a bag of jelly babies.
- A Cyberman rises from a grave.
- An Auton baby is baptised.
- During one of the monologues, images of a Drashig, a Sea Devil, a Silurian, an Axon and a Draconian appear.
- Sean says he used to buy Dalek Deathray lollies.
Doctor Who
- TV: The Ark in Space is referenced.
- A scene from TV: Nightmare of Eden is seen on a TV screen.
- There are depictions of scenes from TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, The Deadly Assassin, Terror of the Autons, Terror of the Zygons and The Green Death.
- The comic ends with a homage to TV: The Android Invasion.
Notes
- This comic is a meta-fictional effort, featuring a "real world" character watching Doctor Who and the Doctor (Fourth) turning up, seemingly the person who is telling the story's friend.
- This is the first time the theme tune has been rendered in a comic, with lyrics:
- Da-Lin-Da-Din
- Da-Lin-Da-Din
- Da-Lin-Da-Din
- Wa-ooooo
- This is the final Fourth Doctor DWM comic strip.
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