Cat Litter (comic story)

Cat Litter was a Seventh Doctor comic story published in DWM 192 and set entirely within the TARDIS. It acted as something of a prologue for Love and War, with Ace's room being replaced with Benny's.

Summary
Trapped in a TARDIS where the internal dimensions are constantly in flux, Ace has to find the Doctor and work out what's happening...

Plot
Ace finds that the TARDIS is cluttered with a huge amount of junk and takes it upon herself to clean it up. Asking the Doctor for assistance, he brushed her off, claiming he has better things to do.

In the console room, Ace finds that a plan of the TARDIS has appeared on the scanner. She notices that a room has just been deleted and suddenly, all around her, the environment begins to change. She has to run in a desperate attempt to find the Doctor which he eventually manages to do. He tells her that her room has been deleted and replaced by someone else's room. Ace asks him if it's another companion and he tells her the TARDIS is probably planning ahead.

Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Ace

Continuity

 * An opening annotation places this story directly after Memorial and before that, Nightshade.
 * This is the last DWM comic to feature "TV Ace" until Ground Zero. At the same time in the books, Ace was written out in favour of Benny Summerfield, a change that is heralded in Ace's room being deleted in this strip. It is replaced with Benny's.
 * A closing caption states "After Love and War, a new companion and... Sontarans".
 * On the board there is a note stating "please leave bathroom as you would like to find it" signed Frobisher and a so-called "Osirian spiral spine staircase".

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWM: Memorial
 * This story takes place before BFA: The Fearmonger