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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
=== Part One: ''The Monster Makers'' === | === Part One: ''The Monster Makers'' === | ||
Inside [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] following their encounter with [[Hans Christian Andersen]], [[Ruby Sunday]] asks the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] if he is sure they will land in [[Reykjavik]] for their party this time | Inside [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] following their encounter with [[Hans Christian Andersen]], [[Ruby Sunday]] asks the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] if he is sure they will land in [[Reykjavik]] for their party this time — he assures that they will. However, they instead [[materialise|land]] in a strange [[city square]] with two [[moon]]s in the sky, face-to-face with a smiling [[crowd]] all shouting "We [[surrender]]!" with their hands in the air. Sharing a baffled look, the Doctor and Ruby dematerialise, but almost instantly wonder what was going on. | ||
The Doctor wishes to discover why the people were surrendering and who to, so he hits the [[fast return switch]] to go back. He quickly gets his answers when, upon returning, the square has turned into the scene of an [[invasion]]: hulking green-armoured monsters with [[laser gun]]s and heads consisting of giant red eyes are attacking the terrified locals. | |||
The Doctor and Felice continue with their plan, as do Ruby and Ferdy with covering up a monster's eye with a coat, but they are all caught off-guard when the monsters' eyes rotate 360 | Ruby, pointing to a city hall [[clock]] with sixteen hours on its face, notes that almost no time has passed since they were last there, so the Doctor faces up to a monster and demands [[answer]]s. However, it cannot respond, and he and Ruby are forced to escape a group of them by running in opposite directions. On [[West Street (The Monster Makers)|West Street]], the Doctor runs into a [[bakery]] where he meets a local woman named [[Felice (The Monster Makers)|Felice]], while on [[East Street (The Monster Makers)|East Street]], Ruby runs into a fashion house and meets a man named [[Ferdy (The Monster Makers)|Ferdy]]. Both of them agree that they have to do more than just run away. The Doctor plans to distract a monster while Felice hits it in the eye with a cake so he can use [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]] on their weapon; Felice asks if he can change their stun guns to kill instead. Deeply concerned, the Doctor wonders why she would want that. | ||
The Doctor and Felice continue with their plan, as do Ruby and Ferdy with covering up a monster's eye with a [[coat]], but they are all caught off-guard when the monsters' eyes rotate [[360 (number)|360]] [[degree]]s, bewildering the Doctor. However, all stop dead when a [[tannoy]] tells the "invaders and invadees" that the invasion is over. | |||
The shadow of a huge spaceship fills the sky and several smartly dressed [[assessor]]s with [[clipboard]]s and propellers descend to the ground. [[Assessor (The Monster Makers)|One woman]] speaks to Ruby, asking her to rate the invasion on a scale of one to five, and as the monster holds Ruby in place, the woman orders her to respond or else she is returned to head office for "reconstitution". | |||
=== Part Two: ''Inside the Factory!'' === | === Part Two: ''Inside the Factory!'' === | ||
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=== Part Four: ''Ghoul Reunion!''=== | === Part Four: ''Ghoul Reunion!''=== | ||
As he is wrestled to the floor, the Doctor questions why he is not affected by the genetic change like everyone else and asks Felice what her favourite music is. He sonics the [[TARDIS jukebox]] and begins to play some [[Venusian folk]] music to which she is instinctively attracted. When he starts singing along, Felice is drawn inside the TARDIS. | |||
Xirxis is hugely impressed by the nanoagents in the jets affecting all the townsfolk, despite Ranceen warning him that it is only temporary and with a high failure rate. Regardless, he considers the potential for planetary invaders so high that he immediately offers to buy the entire company, including their products, monsters, and test planet, for half a quintillion [[galactic groat]]s. Ranceen agrees to create a contract as Ruby silently notices the TARDIS dematerialise on the screens around her and smiles. | |||
In the TARDIS, Felice has calmed down but without her body changing back to normal. The Doctor explains how the TARDIS' state of [[temporal grace]] has acted as a "chillout field" to calm her down and a scan from the sonic screwdriver confirms traces of [[human]], [[Ixionid]], [[Mysian Gegenee]], [[goblin]], and something else in her DNA. Concerned, he wonders what the other part is, as back on the test planet, the transformed focus group grow [[fairy]] wings and fly towards the CoHurtCo™ saucers. | |||
In the company's HQ, Ranceen finalises the deal with Xirxis, and he immediately orders all ex-employees, including assessors and focus groupies, into the stock pens so they can be transformed into monsters. He summons a trio of new staff: faceless X-marked androids called [[X-tinguisher]]s, but is quickly interrupted by the arrival of the TARDIS. The Doctor and Ruby joyfully reunite while Felice uses her new form to trash the robots, and Xirxis meets the Doctor in fury, describing him as an "arch meddler in private business affairs". The Doctor, however, does not recognise him, and Xirxis' insistence that he once killed his grandfather and ruined his enterprise purely out of spite does not jog his memory either. As the Doctor continues to fail to remember any details, Xirxis snaps and declares that he must die, summoning an army dozens of X-tinguishers who quickly surround him and Ruby. | |||
=== Part Five: ''Liquidation!''=== | |||
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* [[Ranceen]] claims to have a sustainability certificate for her peeling jets. | * [[Ranceen]] claims to have a sustainability certificate for her peeling jets. | ||
* The terms and conditions of working with CoHurtCo™ are 7007 pages long. | * The terms and conditions of working with CoHurtCo™ are 7007 pages long. | ||
* The [[TARDIS jukebox]] has tracks of the [[blues]], [[Country (genre)|country]], [[trip-hop]], [[Grime (genre)|grime]], [[bebop]], [[cowpunk]], and [[Venusian folk]] genres. | |||
* Xirxis' grandfather is described as an entrepreneur also known as "the great X-tortioner himself", who owned a volcano base with warheads aimed at every city in [[Galaxy Five]] and an excavation machine which the Doctor killed him in. The Doctor admits that that could describe dozens of people. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* In part three, the dotted line that [[Ruby Sunday|Ruby]] signs on incorrectly overlaps with the stylus she uses to sign. | * In part three, the dotted line that [[Ruby Sunday|Ruby]] signs on incorrectly overlaps with the stylus she uses to sign. | ||
* In part four, [[Fifteenth Doctor|the Doctor]] breaks the [[fourth wall]]: he states that his [[Venusian folk]] song "sounds like a [[Christmas carol|carol]]" and adds that "it isn't even [[Christmas]]!" while winking at the reader. This is in reference to how this chapter was published in [[December (releases)|December]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]]. | |||
=== Original print details === | === Original print details === | ||
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* [[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!'' | * [[DWM 609]]: (6 pages): Next Issue: ''The Apprentice!'' | ||
* [[DWM 610]]: (6 pages): Next Issue: ''Ghoul Reunion!'' | |||
* [[DWM 611]]: (6 pages): Next Issue: ''Liquidation!'' | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
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* When Ruby is mind probed, various monsters she has encountered on her travels can be seen, including the [[Goblin King]] and his [[Goblins (The Church on Ruby Road)|minions]] from [[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}, the [[Bogeyman (Space Babies)|Bogeyman]] from [[TV]]: {{cs|Space Babies (TV story)}}, a [[Man-trap]] from [[TV]]: {{cs|Dot and Bubble (TV story)}}, the [[Chuldur leader (Rogue)|Chuldur leader]] from [[TV]]: {{cs|Rogue (TV story)}}, [[moth people]] from [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Mancopolis (comic story)}}, and [[Snedronningen]] from [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Hans of Fear (comic story)}}, among others. | * When Ruby is mind probed, various monsters she has encountered on her travels can be seen, including the [[Goblin King]] and his [[Goblins (The Church on Ruby Road)|minions]] from [[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}, the [[Bogeyman (Space Babies)|Bogeyman]] from [[TV]]: {{cs|Space Babies (TV story)}}, a [[Man-trap]] from [[TV]]: {{cs|Dot and Bubble (TV story)}}, the [[Chuldur leader (Rogue)|Chuldur leader]] from [[TV]]: {{cs|Rogue (TV story)}}, [[moth people]] from [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Mancopolis (comic story)}}, and [[Snedronningen]] from [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Hans of Fear (comic story)}}, among others. | ||
* The Doctor again shows the ability to feel the turn of a planet's rotation, as in [[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}. | * The Doctor again shows the ability to feel the turn of a planet's rotation, as in [[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}. | ||
* The focus group townsfolk's DNA gains traces of goblins after Ruby's encounter with them in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}} and fairies after Ruby was partly transformed into one in [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Hans of Fear (comic story)}}. | |||
* The TARDIS flies into the [[CoHurtCo™]] saucer rather than fully dematerialising, as it had done several times since [[TV]]: {{cs|Destination: Skaro (TV story)}} and {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}} and would go on to do so again in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}. | |||
{{Fifteenth Doctor DWM comics}} | {{Fifteenth Doctor DWM comics}} | ||
