Monstrous Beauty (comic story)

 was a Doctor Who Magazine comic story that served as their entry in the multi-medium Time Lord Victorious story arc.

The story marked the Ninth Doctor's introduction into the arc, as well as his return to a DWM comic strip since his last regular appearance in A Groatsworth of Wit, and also saw the DWM return of Rose Tyler since her last regular appearance in The Green-Eyed Monster. Furthermore, it was also the first strip in just under two decades to not star the concurrent incarnation of the Doctor (excluding stories where the Doctor does not appear at all).

The comic is also notable for introducing a younger, female incarnation of Rassilon.

The first chapter of the story is unique in that it was not published within the magazine itself, but in a supplementary publication released alongside it.

Part one
to be added

Characters

 * Ninth Doctor
 * Rose Tyler
 * Rassilon
 * Medicus Androkan
 * Friar Grystok
 * Hugo
 * Centia
 * Three Mad Sisters

People

 * A dazed Rose refers to her mother.

Locations

 * The Doctor and Rose were attempting to reach Rio de Janeiro to see the first ever Mardi Gras.
 * Rose once went on a school trip to Derbyshire.

Technology

 * The mining outfit uses sonic baffles to conceal the noise of the machinery.
 * Rassilon traps the Doctor and Rose in a tractor sphere.
 * Rassilon threatens the Doctor with a staser.

Medicine

 * The Doctor and Rose are taken to the solace bay.
 * The Doctor and Rose are forced to take a blood test.

Species

 * The Cucurbite navigate by sound.
 * The Doctor believes that the lack of recognition of his DNA indicates that the Time Lords have not yet become genetically connected to time.

Epigraph
"What did you learn, when you felt the first wind on your face? When the warmth of the first dawn touched your skin? What did you lose, when the first flower withered and the first sea dried? What did you take with you and what did you leave behind?"

- Tears of the Kotturuh

Original print details

 * (Publication with page count and closing captions)


 * 1) DWM 556 supplement: Continued in DWM #557

Continuity

 * Rose knows that the Time Lords are all dead in the present day. (TV: The End of the World)
 * The Doctor and Rose were trying to reach Rio de Janeiro. The Doctor previously visited Rio alone, earlier in this incarnation. (PROSE: Rose)
 * Androkan notes that the Doctor's DNA is unusual. (TV: The Timeless Children)
 * The Vampires’ arsenal includes Cucurbites. (COMIC: Tooth and Claw)