Planet of the Dead (comic story)

Planet of the Dead was a Seventh Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine.

Summary
The Doctor is on the planet Adeki, trying to fish, when he comes upon an old city of the Adekians. It is populated with metamorphic aliens. On meeting him, they take the shapes of his former companions (most of whom are dead), but then take the form of his previous selves.

Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Considers visiting the Halls of Speculative Interest on Vesivius.
 * The Doctor says to himself he has an appointment on Skaro.
 * The Doctor mentions having lost his 500 Year Diary.


 * Gwanzulum shapeshifters posing as:Planet_of_the_dead2.jpg
 * Adric
 * Peri
 * Jamie
 * Katarina
 * Sara Kingdom
 * Frobisher
 * First Doctor
 * Talks about the First Law of Time.
 * Mentions that the Third Doctor changed the lock on the Doctor's TARDIS
 * Also mentions Temporal Disruption.
 * Second Doctor
 * Third Doctor
 * Fourth Doctor
 * Fifth Doctor
 * Sixth Doctor

Species

 * The Gwanzulum predate the Whifferdills and the Kymbra Chimera.
 * The Gwanzulum have metamorphic DNA.
 * The Gwanzulum feed off life energy in order to shape change.

Continuity

 * Adric died in TV: Earthshock.
 * Katrina and Sara Kingdom died in TV: The Daleks' Master Plan
 * Jamie last appeared on screen in TV: The War Games and died in COMIC: The World Shapers.
 * Peri last appeared on screen in TV: Mindwarp, and was revealed to have died in Peri and the Piscon Paradox.
 * The inclusion of Peri implies that the Doctor still thinks she is dead. (As was suggested in TV: Mindwarp, though this was shown to be false in The Ultimate Foe) It is possible he recalls the events of Peri and the Piscon Paradox, where it is revealed that a version of Peri did die.
 * Frobisher last appeared in COMIC: A Cold Day in Hell.