Revelation! (comic story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story SMW

|range = DWM comic stories{{!}}DWM Comics

|number in range = 35

|image       = Revelation!.jpg

|series       = [[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]

|doctor       = Sixth Doctor

|companions   = [[Peri Brown|Peri]], [[Frobisher]]

|enemy       = [[CyberNeomorph]]

|setting     = [[Sylvaniar]]

|writer       = Alan McKenzie

|artist       = [[John Ridgway]]

|editor       = [[Sheila Cranna]]

|colourist   =  

|letterer     = [[Annie Halfacree]]

|publication = [[DWM 109]]

|release date = 16 January 1986

|publisher   = Marvel Comics

|format       = Comic

|reprint      = DWMAC 1

|reprint4    = The World Shapers (graphic novel)

|prev         = Exodus (comic story)

|next         = Genesis! (comic story)

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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a [[Sixth Doctor]] comic published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. It was loosely connected to the previous strip, ''[[Exodus (comic story)|Exodus]]'', and led directly into ''[[Genesis! (comic story)|Genesis!]]''.

In the [[castle]] on [[Sylvaniar]], [[Verdeghast|Professor Verdeghast]] is strangled from behind by an unseen figure who steals his [[notebook]]. Shortly afterwards, the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Frobisher]] and [[Peri Brown]] arrive in the professor's chamber in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to investigate the disappearances they learned about recently. [[Krogh]] enters with guards and imprisons them on suspicion of murdering the professor.

Krogh reveals that a [[Polezig|Dr Polezig]] was killed the day before and frees the Doctor to assist his murder investigation while his companions remain imprisoned. Searching Verdeghast's chamber, the Doctor learns that Verdeghast's research is missing and that he was not killed by a living being. [[Kravaal|Dr Kravaal]], a horribly scarred geneticist with an [[eyepatch]], comes looking for Verdeghast and they send him away. Then [[Sovak|Dr Sovak]] enters, crying for help. His [[neck]] bears the marks of an attacker like the one who killed Verdeghast. They leave Sovak to report to [[Rukh|Director Rukh]] and find him in his office being strangled by a [[Cyberman]] with one human [[arm]].

* [[Krogh]]

* [[Sovak]]

* [[Verdeghast]]

== Worldbuilding ==

* The Doctor compares Doctor Kravaal to [[Boris Karloff]].

* Following the theme of biblical titling, as begun in ''Exodus'', this story is named after the Book of Revelation in the [[Bible]], the final book.

* As an in-joke, artist [[John Ridgway]] drew himself as Director Rukh being strangled by a Cyberman in the closing frame.

* When the Doctor introduces himself to Dr. Kravaal, Kravaal asks, "Doctor Who?" (to which the Doctor playfully responds, "Quite!"), a common in-[[joke]] of the [[Doctor Who|franchise]] from its namesake.

== Continuity ==

* The Doctor briefly recounts the events of the fleeing [[farmer]]s aboard [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] and missing [[peasant]]s to Krogh that lead him to end up in the locked room with Professor [[Verdeghast]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Exodus (comic story)}})

{{dwrefguide|comic6.htm#exodus|Exodus / Revelation! / Genesis!}}