Fried Death (comic story)

Summary
Following a trace, the Doctor and Rose stop off at Terry's Café where a diner feasts on the chef’s special `Fried Death`. Growing ever more bloated, the diner eats to bursting and reveals himself a Gastronaut, a race like Russian dolls, with a new body growing inside another, existing only to feed the next version, a race with tremendous appetites. The Gastronaut is so impressed that he has told all his friends. Very soon, Terry is cooking for a café full of Gastronauts over-running the place, like a plague of locusts with the potential of stripping the planet. To make matters worse the loud, mean, bad tempered TV chef and owner of a thousand restaurants across the galaxy, Rammzi, arrives, determined to take control of this new cuisine. When Terry declines Rammzi’s offer of Glitter Bird Guano (smelly bird-poo, rarer than gold), Rammzi uses his army of chopbots (robot chefs) to extract the `secret`. Just when it looks like Rammzi is going to win, Rose mentions that her mother cooks a better fry-up and the Doctor recommends a better venue, Heston Bleston at the Fat Buck, quadrant 92, first left after the Horsehead Nebula. The Doctor’s use of word of mouth sends the Gastronauts off in hot pursuit. Before Rammzi gets the chance to leave by teleport, the Doctor stops him and leaves him trapped at the diner with Terry. With the waitress having walked out, he has no choice but to help clear up the mess left behind, until his own people come to rescue him in several hundred years time.

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Rose Tyler
 * Terry
 * Rammzi
 * Gastronauts

Original print details

 * Publication with page count and closing captions


 * 1) DWA 8 (6 pages split 4/2) *NEXT ISSUE:

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWA: Blood and Tears
 * This story takes place before DWA: Bizarre Zero