The Green, the Bad and the Ugly (comic story)

Part One
Deciding he needs to top up his tan, the Doctor takes Martha Jones to the planet of Maught – a dry and dusty planet rich in natural resources but were the scarcity of water is more precious than gold. The Doctor had heard that this intergalactic colony outpost is near to a long lost underground stream but that it could just be the stuff of legends. Laser shots and a cry for help lead them to an alley where they find two aliens (Blontt and Angelo), in a heated argument. The Doctor defends himself against Angelo’s fire by deflecting the laser beams using some discarded crystals found lying nearby and Angelo races off on his flying car leaving Blontt fatally wounded – his dying words to the Doctor being “Remember forty two …point two”. Some time later the Doctor and Martha are enjoying the hospitality of Tu at the friendliest inn Maught has to offer. But as Martha prepares to go to sleep, she spots out of her window the murderer from earlier and racing to warn the Doctor finds him restrained on a bed by the cow-like Tu, who has wired him up to machine so that Blontt’s dying secret, might be extracted….

Part Two
Martha’s intervention and the arrival of Angelo waving his weapon about enables the Doctor to break free of the machine. It appears that Angelo, Tu and Blontt were all working together to uncover the location of the underground stream with each having one of three sets of c-ordinates. But like the rogues they are, each was planning to cut the other ones out of their share of the deal. Angelo has one set of co-ordinates (2.4 degrees east), and Tu another (4.97 degrees south) but are still missing Blontt’s depth reference. An unsuccessful shout-out in the street (both supposedly setting their weapons on stuns) leaves the Doctor and Martha stunned by the richochet from Tu’s shot only to wake up and find that Angelo and Tu have reached a truce and at the drill site they threaten to kill Martha if the Doctor doesn’t reveal the depth co-ordinates. Under protest the Doctor gives them the co-ordinates but the incorrect ones (54.4). But the co-ordinates are too deep and a seismic tremor strong enough to alert the authorities results in the drill being overpowered by the flow of water that erupts

Named characters

 * The Doctor
 * Martha Jones
 * Angelo
 * Tu
 * Blontt

Original print details

 * Publication with page count and closing captions


 * 1) DWA Issue 30 (6 pages) HOW WILL THE DOCTOR ESCAPE? FIND OUT NEXT ISSUE!
 * 2) DWA Issue 31 (6 pages) JOIN THE DOCTOR AND MARTHA FOR AN AMAZING NEW ADVENTURE NEXT ISSUE!

Continuity

 * The Doctor says he feels “like he has gone six rounds with a Judoon bare-knuckle boxer” after being unhooked from Tu’s mind reading machine.
 * The Doctor explains to Martha that sometimes its quite lucky the TARDIS doesn’t always blend in with the environment – imagining looking for the door handle on a cactus!
 * The Doctor arms himself with water- pistols in order to escape a skirmish.
 * The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to cut trough ropes tieing him too the drilling machine.

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWAM: The Skrawn Inheritance
 * This story takes place before DWAM: Minus Seven Wonders