Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170322025232

I've been looking through other sites which have catalogued Doctor Who comics, and it seems to me that there's a missing story that we don't cover which definitely has the Seventh Doctor. The The Incomplete Death's Head has previously been waved off as simply all of the previous Death's Head comics printed in a new volume, but between each story is actually a new narrative. Basically from what I can find The Incomplete Death's Head is actually a sequel to Time Bomb!; the Death's Head story-line which featured a crossover with such iconic DWM characters as Josiah W. Dogbolter and Hob. Time Bomb! ends with Dogbolter and Hob rushing towards their personal bomb shelter when Death's Head detonates a thermonuclear blast. It was presumed by many fans that this had killed the pair, but in this comic it's revealed that it actually threw them across all of time and space.

In the new story-line, Hob tries to form a database of Death's Head's memories and life so that he can find Dogbolter once again. Hob has also clearly been rebuilt, and is much larger and more threatening. This is the plot mechanic that is used to present previous stories featuring the original Death's Head. Characters will essentially watch previous comics, either from monitors or from within the Matrix-like device that holds the memories. Hob has built his base on the planet Maruthea, which has been constructed within the Time Vortex. This is also the "planet" featured in Party Animals. There is a very good reason for this plot element; Party Animals is set during the events of The Incomplete Death's Head, specifically during the eleventh and twelfth issues. The Doctor even directly invited Death's Head II to the infamous "party" at the end of the story.

There's even some clever tie-ins to PA. In the frame to the right, you'll notice that the Seventh Doctor is entering the party. Next to him is one of the Penguins seen at the start of PA. Later, when people from the party begin to enter the same room as Hob, Captain Britain is one of those who attends. And when Hob is spying on the bar fight, we briefly see a quick glance of the only other appearance of the Doctor native to Party Animals.

This means that the entire storyline featured inside The Incomplete Death's Head is a sequel to a DWU comic set during a DWU comic with a DWU villain and it's set on a DWU planet in the DWU vortex.

In the first issue of The Incomplete Death's Head, Death's Head II (who is the "rebooted" Death's Head. Google it) arrives at this base and is uploaded into the Cyberspace device which holds his past adventures. While Tuck (Google it) tries to help him escape; she's confronted by Hob, who reveals his identity. In issue 12, The Seventh Doctor arrives on the first page with Death's Head I and several other Marvel characters of notoriety who were all present as the party in Party Animals. Death's Head II escapes from Cyberspace just in time to help his younger counterpart attack and destroy Hob. A brief time later, the Doctor explains that he brought the two incarnations of Head together to defeat a lingering threat from Head's past which would have eventually destroyed him. Death's Head II wanders off with Tuck into space (or whatever) and the Doctor is left with the unconscious Death's Head I, who will remember none of the encounter.

It seems to me that this adventure has not been included on this wikia simply because it occurred to very few people that it actually exists. It gets to the point that I totally imagine that the writers of The Stockbridge Showdown ignored the story not out of spite, but out of actual lack of awareness of it even existing.

I don't think that there's an argument to be made that we shouldn't include the linking segments from this anthology series. Lucky for us, there is a title for this section of the comic: Connections (comic story). The question of if the other comics are now valid is the complex question...   