City of the Damned (comic story)

Summary
Arriving in the City of Zombus built by the people of Zom the Doctor finds a city where the Brains Trust have ruled emotion to be the cause of all crime and outlawed it. With the Moderator General and the Moderators, the people are controlled and forbidden emotional experiences using Harmonisers to remove emotion from the brain. There is resistance however the Zom Emotional People’s Organisation, each of who carry and live by one emotion alone so as to preserve it until the arrival of the Great Emoter. The Doctor is seen as the Great Emoter and is helped to escape the city. But ZEPO’s Big Hate has a plan to destroy the Moderators using his savage Barabara (giant blood bugs). The Barabara are released into the city but feast on everyone not just the Moderators. The Barabara however are defenceless against adrenalin. The Doctor appeals to the Brains trust who agree to reinstall emotions to save what they have but the Moderator General is opposed and wipes them out. The Doctor overpowers the Moderator General and order the people into the Harmonisers where they regain their emotions. The Barabara quickly dies and the city begins a new life with a full set of emotions that the Doctor leaves behind.

Characters

 * Barabara
 * Brains Trust
 * Moderator General
 * Zom
 * Zom Emotional Peoples Organisation

Original Print Details (Publication with page count and closing captions)

 * 1) DWM Issue 9 (5 pages)  Next Week: Mind-Wipe!
 * 2) DWM Issue 10 (4 pages)  Next Week: Gauntlet of Death!
 * 3) DWM Issue 11 (4 pages)  Next Week: The Big Hate!
 * 4) DWM Issue 12 (4 pages)  Next Issue:  Night of the Barabara!
 * 5) DWM Issue 13 (5 pages)  Next Week: Bitter Harvest!
 * 6) DWM Issue 14 (4 pages)  Next Week: Streets of Blood!
 * 7) DWM Issue 15 (4 pages)  Next Week: The Last Hours!
 * 8) DWM Issue 16 (4 pages)  Next Issue: Join the Doctor and K-9 in Time-Trap!

Reprints

 * 1) Doctor Who Marvel Premiere (Issues 59-60) Reprinted in colour.
 * 2) The Iron Legion the launch title of a new series of graphic novels (published in 2004), reprinting cleaned up comic strips  covering strips from Doctor Who Weekly issue 1 through to 38. Reprinted as original, in black and white, with closing captions.

Continuity

 * The Doctor offers jelly babies apparently they stop the ears popping during transmat travel.