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{{Infobox | {{Infobox Story SMW | ||
|range = DWM comic stories{{!}}DWM Comics | |||
image= | |number in range = 92 | ||
series=[[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]| | |image= DWM The Keep.jpg | ||
doctor= | |series=[[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]] | ||
companions= [[Izzy Sinclair]]| | |doctor= Eighth Doctor | ||
enemy= | | |companions= [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]] | ||
|enemy= [[Run Run Hsui Leng]] | |||
writer= | |setting= [[Amazon]] desert, [[51st century]] | ||
editor=[[Gary Gillatt]] & [[Scott Gray]]| | |writer= Alan Barnes | ||
artist= [[Martin Geraghty]], [[Robin Smith]]| | |editor = [[Gary Gillatt]] & [[Scott Gray]] | ||
colourist= | |artist= [[Martin Geraghty]], [[Robin Smith]] | ||
letterer=[[Elitta Fell]]| | |colourist= | ||
publication= ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 248|248]]-[[DWM 249|249]]| | |letterer = [[Elitta Fell]] | ||
|publication= ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 248|248]]-[[DWM 249|249]] | |||
publisher= | |release date=16 January - 13 February 1997 | ||
format= Comic | |cover date= 12 February - 12 March 1997 | ||
prev= Endgame (DWM comic story)| | |publisher= Marvel Comics UK | ||
next= A Life of Matter and Death (comic story)| | |format= Comic | ||
}} | |prev= Endgame (DWM comic story) | ||
'''''The Keep''''' is a [[ | |next= A Life of Matter and Death (comic story) | ||
|epcount = 2|reprint=Endgame (graphic novel) | |||
}}{{you may|The Keep (audio story)|n1=the Counter-Measures audio story}} | |||
'''''The Keep''''' is a [[DWM comic stories|''Doctor Who Magazine'' comic story]] featuring the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Izzy Sinclair]]. | |||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
Shortly after arriving on [[Earth]] in the [[51st century]], [[Eighth | Shortly after arriving on [[Earth]] in the [[51st century]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]] are greeted by [[Marquez]], the [[android]] servant of [[Crivello]], an aged [[scientist]] only kept alive by his complete immersion in a nutrient tank. Crivello is attempting to create an [[Crivello's Cauldron|artificial sun]] for a new [[Star system|solar system]] for [[human]]ity after [[Earth]] is engulfed by [[solar flare]]s. The Doctor discovers the sun is alive. Having built a rapport with the artificial sun, The Doctor orders it to travel to an unpopulated arm of the [[Crab Nebula]] to become humanity's new home. | ||
After | After the Doctor and Izzy have left and humanity has gone to its new home, Marquez and Crivello are left alone on the dying Earth. As Crivello reflects on his accomplishment, Marquez abruptly kills him and unceremoniously throws his body off a cliff overlooking the sea. | ||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Eighth Doctor]] | * [[Eighth Doctor]] | ||
* [[Izzy Sinclair]] | * [[Izzy Sinclair]] | ||
** | * [[Marquez]] | ||
** | * [[Crivello]] | ||
* Uber-Marshal [[Run Run Hsui Leng]] | |||
* [[Woo (The Keep)|Woo]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* | * Uber-Marshall Leng is a contemporary of [[Magnus Greel]]. | ||
* Izzy [[vomit|throws up]] after being [[transmat]]ted for the first time, and compares the experience to [[Twister (roller-coaster)|the Twister]] at [[Alton Towers]]. | |||
* Izzy compares Marquez to [[Lieutenant]] [[Data (Assimilation²)|Data]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
''to | * In [[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', it was established that [[51st century]] Earth was in an Ice Age and great national alliances like the [[Icelandic Alliance]] existed. ''The Keep'' instead has Earth ravaged by [[solar flare]]s and states the rich left in a fleet of [[space ark]]s, which — according to the account of [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'' — would occur some nine thousand years after the 51st century. | ||
* ''The Keep'' was reprinted in ''[[Endgame (graphic novel)|Endgame]]''. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
''to be added'' | |||
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[[Category:Stories set in the 51st century]] | [[Category:Stories set in the 51st century]] | ||
[[Category:Eighth Doctor DWM comic stories]] | [[Category:Eighth Doctor DWM comic stories]] | ||
[[Category:Stories | [[Category:1997 comic stories]] | ||
[[Category:Stories set in the Amazon]] | |||
[[Category:Two part comics]] | |||
