Ground Zero (comic story)
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Summary
The Threshold, a company of people have kidnapped four of the Doctor's former (and one current) companions, using them for their employer's benefit; the Lobri - a creation of the human unconsciousness, feeding on fear. They intend to destroy the unconscious link between humans. They are stopped, but at what cost?
Characters
- Faces the final Lobri at the end, buying time to land the TARDIS within it.
- Attacks the Lobri single-handedly with the Doctor's umbrella and a can of Nitro-9.
- Is blown up and apparently killed destroying one of the Lobri.
- Recognises the Doctor as her grandfather.
- Is unable to be sent to the Lobri's realm because she isn't human.
- Tortured to get the most fear out of her.
- Their motto is 'Just around the corner'.
- Are surprised initially that the Doctor isn't human (they kidnapped Susan in 1963, knowing she was connected to the Doctor, but not that she was an alien).
References
- Peri was taken from Hollywood, 14th May, 1938.
- Susan was taken from London, 22nd October, 1963.
- Sarah Jane Smith was taken from Tarkhail, Russia, 25th April, 2086.
- The Threshold neuro-lock Susan.
- Ace, Sarah, and Peri are sent to a 'collective unconsciousness'; a place of pure psionic energy, only humans can survive there.
- The Threshold's clients are called the Lobri, they feed off of primal emotions; fear and hatred..
- The Doctor links the Threshold's ring to the TARDIS's trans-reality navi-systems.
- As the TARDIS breaks through the collective unconsciousness it starts to break apart, the cloister bell begins to ring, the Doctor tells Susan to refocus the force-field prisms.
- Ace uses her Nitro-9 to dispatch several of the Lobri.
- Susan says (in a monologue) that her people can see beyond the 'facades' (various regenerations).
- After the TARDIS's journey into the collective unconsciousness the Doctor tells Susan to re-establish the tertiary navi-links.
- The Doctor lands the TARDIS inside the Lobri, the safety interlocks would have prevented this, had they been functioning.
- The Doctor places mental blocks on Peri and Sarah's minds of the events.
Notes
- The first part of this comic starts with three inset panel from the last part of this comic.
- It seems that Ace dies in this comic.
- Which makes the DWM partially contradictory as they integrated elements of the Virgin New Adventures at various points, but ignored it on others.
- This comic can be viewed as the first alteration to the timeline which is resolved in DWM: The Glorious Dead.
Continuity
- Sarah was taken by the Threshold in DWM: Black Destiny.
- Ace continued to live in NA: Set Piece.
- The Seventh Doctor is wearing the same outfit he is wearing in DW: Doctor Who (1996), the console room and the rest of the TARDIS is heavily damaged during this story, seemingly setting up for the changes seen in the TV movie.
Timeline
- This story takes place after WC: Death Comes to Time
- This story takes place before BFA: Excelis Decays
External links
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