A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)

A Groatsworth of Wit is a Doctor Who Magazine comic story featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler.

Summary
The Shadeys are a race that draws on negative emotions. They choose Robert Greene as a host for powerful negative emotions. By manipulating the dying Green they turn his hatred, bile and jealousy of Shakespeare "up to eleven," giving them enough power to crush the planet.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Rose Tyler
 * William Shakespeare
 * Robert Greene
 * Uncle Bloodfinger
 * Woodscrape

Continuity

 * Shakespeare first appears in Doctor Who in "The Executioners," the first episode of TV: The Chase. He later appeared on televised Doctor Who in The Shakespeare Code.
 * The Fourth Doctor wrote out the first draft of Hamlet in PROSE: The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor, and references it in TV: City of Death.
 * The name Uncle Bloodfinger is very similar to Mother Doomfinger and Mother Bloodtide, two characters who featured in TV: The Shakespeare Code, an episode released two years after the comic. In it, three "witches" attempt to free the other members of their race, the Carrionites. The dialogue and presentation of the enemies speaking while watching the writer work is similar to several parts of The Shakespeare Code. Both were written by Gareth Roberts.
 * A tavern sign features a picture of a wolf's head and the initials "B.W.", a reference to the Bad Wolf story arc resolved in TV: The Parting of the Ways.