End of the Line (comic story)

Summary
The TARDIS materializes in the subway system of a dystopian city, where years of industrial pollution have transformed the street gangs into cannibal mutants. The Doctor is saved from the cannibals by the Guardian Angels, the few remaining “normal” humans, and taken to their headquarters; there, an elderly engineer is trying to repair the connections which will take the Angels out of the city to the fabled Countryside. The cannibals track down their prey, however, and slaughter most of the Angels while trying to get to the Doctor. The Doctor sends the surviving Angels out of the city on the last remaining train while he remains behind, completing the engineer’s work just as the cannibals break in. The cannibal Chief tries to kill the Doctor but electrocutes himself in the machinery, and the Doctor escapes as the Chief’s fellows fall upon his carcass. Curious, the Doctor uses the TARDIS to follow the tracks to the end of the line -- only to find that the open countryside is a sterile, poisonous wasteland, and that there is no sign of the train carrying the last of the Angels.

Characters

 * Fourth Doctor

Continuity
to be added