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name= The Last Word|
|range = DWM comic stories{{!}}DWM Comics
image= Last word.jpg|
|number in range = 109
series=[[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]|
|image= SevenVersusTimewyrm.jpg
doctor= [[Seventh Doctor]]|
|series=[[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]
companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield]]|
|doctor= Seventh Doctor
enemy= [[Timewyrm]]|
|companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
year= |
|enemy= The [[Timewyrm]]
writer= [[Gareth Roberts]]|
|setting= [[The Doctor's TARDIS]]<br>[[London]], [[1981]]<br>[[57th century]]
editor=|
|writer= Gareth Roberts
artist= [[Lee Sullivan]]|
|editor=
colourist=|
|artist= [[Lee Sullivan]]
letterer=|
|colourist=
publication= ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 305|305]]|
|letterer=
release date= 27 June [[2001]]|
|publication= [[DWM 305]]
publisher= |
|release date= 31 May 2001
format= Comic - 1 part (7 pages) |
|cover date= 27 June 2001
prev= Beautiful Freak (comic story)|
|publisher=  
next= The Way of All Flesh (comic story)|
|format= Comic (7 pages)  
|prev= Beautiful Freak (comic story)
|next= The Way of All Flesh (comic story)
|series2 =''DWM'' comic stories in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] continuity
|prev2 = Uninvited Guest (comic story)
|reprint = The Age of Chaos (graphic novel)
|epcount = 1
}}
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'''''The Last Word''''' is a ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic story featuring the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]].
'''''The Last Word''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic story which celebrated the tenth anniversary of the ''[[Virgin New Adventures]]''. Consequently, it featured the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Bernice Summerfield]] and an older [[Ace]]. Although the Seventh Doctor had previously featured in [[Time & Time Again (comic story)|one full-colour DWM strip before]], this was the character's first appearance in the pages of ''DWM'' after the magazine permanently moved to a colour strip.
 
To those fans who had only begun following the comic strip recently and had not read the ''New Adventures'', the story would likely have made little sense. Coming as it did over seven years since Benny's last appearance in a ''DWM'' comic story, and in the middle of the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s run, the story was surprising for its lack of narrative introductions. The [[Timewyrm]], [[Puterspace]], [[Bernice Summerfield]], and [[Smithwood Manor]] all appeared without any narrative explanation. The sudden reappearance of the older Ace in ''DWM'' also meant a return to the continuity of even earlier strips, as her very last appearance in the magazine some five years before featured her unambiguous death as a teenager.
 
Readers steeped in the lore of the ''New Adventures'', however, would have understood the strip easily. The story celebrated the range by reuniting the Seventh Doctor with his first ''New Adventures'' foe, the Timewyrm, and included fan-servicing meta-textual elements such as the idea that the Doctor himself wrote all of the ''New Adventures'' novels and a panel in featuring a conveniently-placed [[chessboard]] in the foreground with the Doctor, out-of-focus, standing behind. Similarly, both Ace and Benny angrily questioned why adventures with the Doctor "always [had] to be so bloody complicated" — a common criticism of the ''New Adventures'' themselves.


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
''to be added''
Whilst [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] traverses the [[time vortex]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] is attempting to write a novel about his adventures with [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] and [[Ace]]. As he writes, he recounts a recent adventure with the duo during which they were all together at [[Smithwood Manor]]. Devising a plan to lure the [[Timewyrm]] into a trap, he sends Benny to [[1981]] to join a new romantic band named [[Flash Trash]], and Ace to the future to tackle the [[Chelonian]]s fighting in a [[Frontier War]] in the [[57th century]], claiming that he needs them to set history right in both periods.
 
These are weak points in the [[Web of Time]], and the women's tampering brings about fundamental change to the flow of time. This gives the Timewrym something to feed upon, causing it to emerge from [[Puterspace]] to taunt the Doctor about his obvious trap. At first it appears that the Timewyrm has gained the upper hand, pulling the Doctor into Puterspace, but he springs a trap within a trap and the Timewyrm is soon denied the ability to transit between Puterspace and real space. The Doctor has achieved his final victory over the meddlesome Timewyrm.
 
Back in the TARDIS, as the Doctor finishes writing up the story, Ace realises that she once again has been used as bait in one of the Doctor's schemes, and Benny is left wondering why travelling with the Doctor is always "so bloody complicated".


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
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* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Timewyrm]]
* [[Timewyrm]]
* [[Adam (The Last Word)|Adam]]
* [[Steve (The Last Word)|Steve]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* To indicate his victory, the Doctor says, ''"You are [[The Weakest Link|the weakest link]]. Goodbye."''
* Benny enjoys [[single malt whiskey]].
* An audience member at [[Flash Trash]]'s concert claims that [[Spandau Ballet]] have a better "lightshow" than the band Benny is playing with.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This story was written for the tenth anniversary of the [[Virgin New Adventures]].
* The girl who auditions before Benny is Kim Wilde, who sang ''Kids in America''.
* This is one of the very few Seventh Doctor comics originally presented in full colour and the only "full story" to be in colour (for example, one part of ''[[Emperor of the Daleks!]] ''is in colour, but not all).


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* The Doctor remembers the deaths of [[Katarina]], [[Sara Kingdom]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'') and [[Adric]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') failing the [[Silurian]]s twice ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'', ''[[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|Warriors of the Deep]]'') and leaving an entire [[Silurian Earth|parallel Earth]] to die. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'')
 
* [[Ace]] last encountered the [[Timewyrm]] on [[the Moon]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'') and refers to it as "the mad mutha of [[Mesopotamia]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|Timewyrm: Genesys]]'')
== Timeline ==
* The Timewyrm would later attend Benny and [[Jason Kane]]'s wedding in [[Cheldon Bonniface]] on [[24 April]] [[2010]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
* This story takes place after [[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]''
* This story takes place before [[NA]]: ''[[Blood Heat]]''
 


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