Stairway to Heaven (comic story)

Summary
The Doctor, aiming for the Chardaz Museum of Modern Art, lands in a jungle near a gigantic staircase made of bricks and bones. There, he sees an odd creature which hatches from an egg and develops the ability to breath fire within seconds. The creature bakes a brick out of clay from the jungle floor, snaps a bone from one of the hundreds of skeletons scattered about the base of the stairway, and climbs. The Doctor follows it to the top, where he stops it from leaping to its death after it has laid its brick in place. The staircase has nearly reached the roof of the jungle, and the Doctor opens up a panel in the ceiling to reveal that he has materialised inside the latest piece of art by the genetic sculptor Garg Ardonquist, who intends it to symbolise the struggle and sacrifice an artist must make in the process of creation. The Doctor accuses him of torturing his creations in the name of art, but Ardonquist dismisses his boorish criticism. Ardonquist's creation, however, assumes that it has found Heaven and leaps joyously at its creator, and the unprepared Ardonquist topples into the sculpture. He and his creation fall to their deaths at the base of the sculpture. The Doctor escapes back to the TARDIS while the museum's security guards pick up bricks from the stairway, which will now be considered collectors' items.

Characters
Garg Ardonquist

Continuity
to be added