Party Animals (comic story)

Party Animals was a Seventh Doctor comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine. It was notable for concluding the loose "Bonjaxx's birthday" arc.

Summary
The Doctor and Ace travel to Maruthea for Bonjaxx's birthday party. Whilst there he encounters old friends and enemies, and has a glimpse of his future.

Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Ace
 * The Doctor
 * Ria
 * Bonjaxx
 * Death's Head
 * Fourth Doctor
 * Sixth Doctor

The Doctor

 * The Seventh Doctor claims that the Rani and her giant mouse came to his graduation party.

Foods and beverages

 * The Doctor drinks water.

Individuals and species

 * There are numerous species, mechanical beings and individuals present at the party, including the Master, a Draconian, a Silurian, a Sontaran, two Daleks, Shayde, a bus conductor, Abslom Daak, Melkur, Worf, a Meep, a Wrarth Warrior, the Freefall Warriors, an Ergon, the Kandyman, an Ice Warrior, an Experimental Prototype Robot, a White Robot, Morbius, a Vervoid, an Alpha Centauran, Bart Simpson and Captain Britain.
 * Ace has a new baseball bat.

Locations

 * The trick to getting to Maruthea is apparently not to be there at all, causing you to be so.

Technology

 * One of Bonjaxx's gifts appears to be the same shape as K9.

Theories and concepts

 * The Doctor implies that the First Law of Time refers to meeting a previous or future incarnation of oneself.

Continuity

 * The Doctor finally arrives on Maruthea for Bonjaxx's birthday party. (COMIC: Echoes of the Mogor!, Invaders from Gantac!, et al)
 * An identical "Doctor" also appears in COMIC: The Final Chapter and Wormwood, but was revealed to be a disguise taken on by Shayde.
 * Bonjaxx resembles the Daemon-like race seen in COMIC: Menace of the Molags.