Fire and Brimstone (comic story)

Fire and Brimstone was a Doctor Who Magazine comic story featuring the Eighth Doctor.

Summary
The Doctor and Izzy materialise in a small satellite orbiting Crivello's sun, and witnessed an attack on it by Daleks. While attempting to stop the Daleks plans it was revealed that another of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the megacorp known as the Threshold was hired to destroy the Daleks, and already had a plan in motion. This plan failed and Izzy escaped with the Threshold's payment and a portal-generating Threshold ring. She warped to the Doctor's location, and he was informed of the Threshold's mission, and knew who hired them. After all, the box containing their payment was embossed with the Seal of Rassilon. The Doctor managed to deafeat both the Daleks and the Threshold by making Crivello's sun go nova, as the Doctor and Izzy escaped in the TARDIS a Threshold agent appeared to remind the Doctor the Threshold was not down yet.

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Tells the Lederene that he was present 200 years ago when Crivello's Cauldron was launched.
 * Seemingly gets exterminated, but is actually matter transported by the Daleks.
 * Has flown by magic carpet in Old Baghdad.


 * Izzy Sinclair
 * Greets the soldiers with a Vulcan (Star Trek) salute, and a quote from The Day the Earth Stood Still: "klaatu barada nikto".
 * Reads Discworld novels


 * The Daleks
 * Operate on the Doctor to introduce a synaptic conduit to control the cauldron.


 * Dalek Supreme
 * Is taller than the other Daleks.
 * Has a claw instead of a plunger.
 * Eye piece is capable of inferring rage.


 * Ptolemy Muttonchops
 * Is a seer.
 * Gets infected by the contagium.
 * Is the spawn of the cauldron.


 * Marquez
 * Is an agent of the Daleks.

Daleks

 * The Daleks use the Contagium to infiltrate Icarus Falling.
 * The Dalek Hive is a large space cruiser, 3 billion tonnes of solid dalekanium gird its hull, its propulsion units generate a force equivalent of 600 erupting volcanoes.
 * The Daleks use Special Weapons Daleks against the alternate universe Daleks.
 * One of the species of "other Daleks" is similar to those mentioned in the Leakey Bible for the proposed eighth Doctor TV series. Insectoidal in an armoured shell that opens so the insect can attack.

Continuity

 * Crivello's Cauldron last appeared in DWM: The Keep.
 * The Doctor references the death of Ace in DWM: Ground Zero.
 * While it appears the box comes from the Time Lords, DWM: The Final Chapter and Wormwood reveal it to be from Rassilon himself.

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWM: A Life of Matter and Death
 * This story takes place before DWM: By Hook or By Crook