The Horn of a Dilemma was the fourth story in the Four Hours of Doom's Day comic anthology publication released with issue 592 of Doctor Who Magazine. It was released in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who.
It was the fifth overall story in the Doom's Day multimedia series.
Publisher’s summary[]
Are unicorns real? Doom is about to find out alongside a familiar friendly face.
Plot[]
At a renaissance fair, Doom sets off to stop a trick scheme. She encounters a seller, tricking people into thinking unicorns exist, tricking them to buy their "valuable" hair strands and horns.
As Doom requests to buy a unicorn claiming them to not exist, the seller hesitates before agreeing to sell her a creature for a 100,000 gold. She introduces herself as Doom the Great Hunter, in search of hunting every kind of animal to kill them.
In that moment a young woman comes up to her, objecting to her that she won’t let Doom kill a unicorn, but Doom whispers to her that she is not going to do any harm, only to help.
As a unicorn is presented before Doom, she creates a bit of trickery, making a real horse with a fake horn appear, to all the fair visitors' shock, demanding to be compensated.
After the effects wear off, and the unicorn returns to its own form, Doom reveals her objective was to kill the idea of the unicorn to prevent them from being hunted to extinction.
The woman introduces herself as Jo and says she’s got a friend who will help with the real unicorn huntsman. Doom then sets off to a new location as Death once more closes in on her.
Characters[]
Worldbuilding[]
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Notes[]
- This story takes place across Hour 0500.
- The weapon that Doom is brandishing in the cover of the Doctor Who Magazine supplement Four Hours of Doom's Day, appears to resemble a sonic blaster similar to the one owned by Jack Harkness. However, no such blaster appears in this or any of the other three stories within. The same gun seemingly makes a reappearance on the comic-style cover of DD 1, the first issue of A Doctor in the House?.
Continuity[]
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