Harvest of Doom was a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2011.
Summary
The Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams arrive on the planet Velgris, a planet 40% covered in fruit trees which produce a different fruit every week. The native Velgor’s, are singing to the trees in praise of that week’s harvest.
Suddenly their peaceful chants are interrupted and the sound becomes distorted. The Doctor discovers finds a remote-controlled device. The distortion causes the trees to bear mutated fruit that creates something new. The ‘fruit’ calls itself the Berrus and declared the planet selected for clearance and reseeding and the natives for consumption.
The chanting is stopped while the Doctor tries to decode the signal and re-programme the device causing the distortion. The new fruits round up the Velgors, knocking down trees to use as firewood.
Seven and a half minutes later a new broadcast sees the orchard overrun with new fruits. They drop like glove from the trees, land on and covering the invading fruits. Unable to identify who left the device in the first place, the Doctor, Amy and Rory leave with the hope that one failed invasion attempt will be enough.
Named characters
References
- The Doctor proudly presenting the planet Velgris, to Amy Pond and Rory Williams suggest a familiarity with the place prior to arrival.
Notes
- There is a complication to the storyline with the mutant-fruit declaring themselves as Berrus. Not only does the fruit seem to have acquired an intelligence - but also a voice. They also seem to suggest that they are a spearhead for their ‘masters’ preparing the planet for clearance and re-seeding. At some point their masters must have planted the device to distort the sound, knew when to activate and enough about the trees to generate the mutant Berrus.
Original print details
- Publication with page count and closing captions
- DWA 246 (4 pages) DON’T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!
- No reprints to date.
Continuity
- The Doctor's screwdriver is noticeably absent from this strip, in spite of the Doctor being able to decode the signal from the distortion device, write and reprogram the device in only seven and a half minutes.
