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=== Part Two: ''Inside the Factory!'' === | === Part Two: ''Inside the Factory!'' === | ||
A TV advertisement plays in which a cheesy [[Presenter (The Monster Makers)|presenter]] describes [[CoHurtCo™]], a company that can create an army of completely bespoke soldiers for planetary invaders across the [[Five Galaxies]]. He says they can make whatever their clients need, showing a testimonial from the elephant-like [[Grand Trunk Ultima]] [[Nel-I IV]] of [[Pachydermus Prime]] and his army of [[Scytheghouls]] as proof. Additionally, he explains that the soldiers are guaranteed to comply with all orders with a tactical error refund guarantee, saying that that is why they are called "the Monster Makers". | |||
On one of several linked-together saucers in orbit that make up CoHurtCo™, a businesswoman named [[Ranceen]] shows the advert to an extravagantly dressed man obsessed with the letter X named [[Xirxis]]. He wishes to see the company's process in action, so Ranceen shows him the fallout of their trial invasion, where they witness Ruby telling the assessor that she is highly dissatisfied with the invasion. She is released from the monster's grip, and Ferdy tells the assessor how Ruby and her friend have great experience with monsters. Xirxis' interest is piqued, and Ranceen tells the assessors to collate the information on the two strangers from the monsters, which she names [[i-Ball]]s. Ruby and Ferdy's assessor tells them they are wanted at Head Office, which Ferdy is convinced can only be a good thing. | |||
The Doctor watches Ruby, Ferdy, the assessor, and all but one of the i-Balls heading into the saucer, but he cannot reach her because the i-Ball is threatening him and Felice. Knowing how much their stun guns hurt, Felice demands to know what the Doctor will do to help. He realises that the i-Balls' brains cannot be in their heads, and is immediately proven right when Felice's twin [[Felipe (The Monster Makers)|Felipe]] appears and knocks its head off with a hockey stick. She tells her sister to escape before Head Office finds them interacting with an outsider, but Felice picks up the i-Ball's gun and forces the Doctor back into the bakery, telling him to explain how the monsters work. He reasons that their brains must be in their torsos and that they control their eyes with telepathy, then tries to convince her to put down the gun and explain what is going on so he can find Ruby. | |||
At CoHurtCo™ Head Office, Ferdy explains that he is tired of being a focus groupie who is chased by monsters every day and wants to be promoted to assessor. The assessor tells Ferdy to follow the i-Balls into a green-lit room so he can talk to their CEO, Ranceen, and Ruby demands to see her too. She arrives and shows Ruby the green room, noting how only 21% of respondents were satisfied with the invasion and 36% described the monsters as "silly". As such, she activates peeling jets, immediately dissolving the army of i-Balls and Ferdy so they can be reused as different monsters. Despite Ruby's shock, Ranceen turns to her and offers her a job. | |||
=== Part Three: ''The Apprentice!''=== | |||
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* [[Ruby Sunday]] | * [[Ruby Sunday]] | ||
* [[Felice (The Monster Makers)|Felice]] | * [[Felice (The Monster Makers)|Felice]] | ||
* [[Felipe (The Monster Makers)|Felipe]] | |||
* [[Ferdy (The Monster Makers)|Ferdy]] | * [[Ferdy (The Monster Makers)|Ferdy]] | ||
* [[Assessor (The Monster Makers)|Assessor]] | * [[Assessor (The Monster Makers)|Assessor]] | ||
* [[Presenter (The Monster Makers)|Presenter]] | |||
* [[Nel-I IV]] | |||
* [[Ranceen]] | |||
* [[Xirxis]] | |||
== Worldbuilding == | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The city includes a main square, city hall, and petrol station. | * The city includes a main square, city hall, and petrol station. | ||
** West Street features a library, bakery, shoe shop, and | ** West Street features a library, bakery, shoe shop, barbers, soda shop, and newsstand. | ||
** East Street features a fashion house, fishmongers, cheese shop, and bookshop. | ** East Street features a fashion house, fishmongers, cheese shop, and bookshop. | ||
* The Doctor nicknames one of the | * [[Fifteenth Doctor|The Doctor]] nicknames one of the [[i-Ball]]s "Eye Claudius", in reference to the novel ''[[I, Claudius]]''. | ||
* | * i-Balls have no mouths, ears, or noses. Despite being completely organic, their eye-heads can fully rotate, which the Doctor initially attributes to them potentially being on gimbals before realising they use telepathy. | ||
* [[Pachydermus Prime]] is part of the [[Tuskus]] constellation. It is ruled by a [[Grand Trunk Ultima]]. | |||
* [[Nel-I IV]] claims that his species was held back from domination by low birth rates and gestation periods lasting centuries. | |||
* Titles that [[Xirxis]] proclaims for himself include "the X-acting", "the X-punger", "the X-communicator", and "the Great X-cisor". He is also referred to as "His Excellency" by others. | |||
* The Doctor states that he has been hit by stun weapons "once or twice". | |||
* [[Felice (The Monster Makers)|Felice]] claims that being stunned in real life badly hurts, unlike what is shown in vid-shows. | |||
* [[Ranceen]] claims to have a sustainability certificate for her peeling jets. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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(Publication with page count and closing captions) | (Publication with page count and closing captions) | ||
* [[DWM 608]]: (6 pages): Next Issue: ''Inside the Factory!'' | * [[DWM 608]]: (6 pages): Next Issue: ''Inside the Factory!'' | ||
* [[DWM 609]]: (6 pages): Next Issue: ''The Apprentice!'' | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* This story follows immediately from the previous one, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Hans of Fear (comic story)}}, with the Doctor and Ruby again attempting to reach the [[Scandi Superclub]]. Ruby wonders if the TARDIS hitting the sloop in [[Copenhagen]] caused its settings to lose accuracy. | * This story follows immediately from the previous one, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Hans of Fear (comic story)}}, with [[Fifteenth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Ruby Sunday|Ruby]] again attempting to reach the [[Scandi Superclub]]. Ruby wonders if the TARDIS hitting the sloop in [[Copenhagen]] caused its settings to lose accuracy. | ||
* The Doctor utilises the [[fast return switch]] in his TARDIS, first seen in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Edge of Destruction (TV story)}}. | * The Doctor utilises the [[fast return switch]] in his TARDIS, first seen in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Edge of Destruction (TV story)}}. | ||
* [[Gravity|Mavity]] is once again mentioned, continuing the trend started in [[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}, this time by the [[CoHurtCo™]] [[Presenter (The Monster Makers)|presenter]]. | |||
{{Fifteenth Doctor DWM comics}} | {{Fifteenth Doctor DWM comics}} | ||
