Borrowed Time (comic story)

Summary
The Doctor answers a distress call from Irene, an elderly lady living on her own on the mini-moon of Delphi. Landing nearby the Doctor has to cut his way through the jungle with a grass cutter from the TARDIS, fending off the man-eating alien weeds that have infested the place. In a large greenhouse the Doctor finally finds Irene but she is not interested in leaving her home. Instead she wants the Doctor to take her plant a Pink Cichorium, the last of its kind in the universe to a safe place. The Doctor agrees that a thing of beauty she be preserved as long as possible and leaving her behind to fight the weeds with tanks of weedkiller strapped to her back, he takes the plant to a new home in the fields of Centauri-Beta.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Irene

Original print details

 * Publication with page count and closing captions


 * 1) DWA Issue 158 (4 pages) NEXT WEEK What happened next for Heather and Wolfie?

Continuity

 * the Tenth Doctor is featured wearing his brown suit in this strip

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWAM: Project UFO
 * This story takes place before DW: Planet of the Dead