The Widow ' s Curse ( comic story ) The Widow ' s Curse was a 2008 comic story featuring the Tenth Doctor . It was the first " Doctor Who Magazine " comic strip to feature Donna Noble , though it was not her comic strip debut . It was the second time author Rob Davis had introduced a televised companion to the pages of " Doctor Who Magazine " . Ultimately , however , Donna would appear in only one further story after this . Synopsis . The Doctor and Donna Noble travel to an island that doesn ' t exist where an old enemy is waiting in Westminster Abbey . . . Plot . Part one . Zombies walk under the sea . On a boat people talk about where they have been . Donna Noble tells them all the places she has been by herself and with the Tenth Doctor . The others introduce themselves as Norah , Jean and Harry . They ask Donna where she is staying and she says the TARDIS . The others think it is a fancy hotel . Donna corrects them . Harry tries to talk to the Doctor , who stands next to Donna . He is looking through binoculars at Shadow Cay and says there is no such place as Shadow Cay . The Doctor introduces himself and explains it can ' t exist because he has never met anyone who ' s been there . Harry reads the island ' s history from a book to prove it is real . Jean tells the Doctor he has a crooked aura . The Doctor says he had a nasty fall as a child . On a beach on Granma Island , two people have found a spiky object they think is a sea creature . Suddenly a group of zombies attack them and take away the object . The boat arrives at Shadow Cay . The Doctor and Donna discover a model hand stuck in a wall . They see the Convent of a building that looks just like Westminster Abbey . The Doctor tells them it " is " Westminster Abbey . The group from the boat prepare to enter the abbey but the Doctor is grabbed from behind . Two men close the doors , trapping the others inside . When a man protests , a skull on a rope swings out and catches him on the neck . He collapses . The Sycorax reveal themselves telling the humans they are in the Church of the Sycorax . Part two . The man who grabbed the Doctor did so to keep him from being discovered by the Sycorax — whom the Doctor recognises as female . Inside the church , the Sycorax attack the humans , binding them with ropes , but Donna escape with Norah . As they escape , they run into another Sycorax . Donna sprays her with perfume . Donna and Norah try to find out where the Sycorax are taking people . The Sycorax discuss their plans with the leader — the Haxan Craw . Some zombies bring in a spherical object — which she reacts to with joy — they now shall have the truth . The Doctor realises the " locals " are all zombies , or human abstracts , as is the man who rescued him — the Sycorax are controlling them remotely . The man introduces himself as Lee Deverill . The Doctor notes he is different , but is puzzled because zombie control doesn ' t allow for individuality . They decide to go into the Sycorax ship . In the church , some of the humans recognise the Sycorax as the Christmas aliens on television — but the Sycorax tell them not to speak in front of the Haxan Craw . Donna and Norah watch from behind rocks as the Haxan Craw brings in the stone , which she identifies as the Foraxi Yox . She orders the killing of the humans — but Donna protests . The Sycorax put the stone ball into a screen — which shows them what happened to their husbands . Donna realises it is like a Black Box recorder . The Sycorax watch the clip , which shows them being targeted by the humans and say they have been betrayed . The Doctor and Lee come across a beach filled with the heads of abstracts — the Doctor notes they are " very , very , very dead . . . like they ' ve died hundreds of times " . Lee tells the Doctor that a 747 has gone missing — the Sycorax seem to have hypnotised the entire world . They set off an alarm and are chased by Sycorax riders . Back in the church , Donna looks on in horror as the Sycorax widows watch the clip of their husbands being destroyed over and over again . Part three . The Doctor and Lee run from the Sycorax riders . Lee is captured but the Doctor escapes by using the Sycorax ropes to pull them off their mounts . He steals a mount to get away . Inside the Shrine , the Haxan Craw watches images of her husband , the Sycorax leader Fadros Pallujikaa , meeting his death . The images show the swordfight between the Doctor and the Sycorax . The Haxan Craw identifies a part the leader ' s bone jewellery as her rib , a marriage bond he wears . The Haxan Craw screams at the sight of her husband ' s death , draws her sword and stabs Harry through his chest . Jean tries to remove the Torkfish but the Haxan Craw says they only let go when the victim dies . Lee is taken to the Gilfane Craw . The Doctor also arrives and is slapped for commenting on Sycorax rites . The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to threaten the Sycorax . He backs away to a man strapped to the mainframe of the island . It is Lee , the man who wrote a guide to the Caribbean islands . Meanwhile , the Sycorax are preparing to kill the humans when Norah throws the Sycorax ' s recording device into their screen , causing an explosion . In the panic , the humans flee . Jean is tied to the rest by the Torkfish but cuts the rope so she can stay with Harry , who is now dead , the Torkfish having relaxed its grip . Lee discovers he is just a spirit in another man ' s body . He throws himself at the Gilfane Craw and both land in the pool of acid surrounding the mainframe and dissolve . The Doctor frees Lee from the mainframe and turns to face the Haxan Craw and her warriors . Donna and Norah board a plane . The Sycorax wake the dead , who are contaminated with a spell / virus that will be spread round the world in the Sycorax ' s vengeance , stopping the death of humanity while removing the immune system , causing agony for hundreds of years . Donna and Norah realise the plane is full of corpses contaminated with the virus , ready to be flown to London . The Sycorax declare this is their curse and advance on the Doctor . The Haxan Craw proclaims " No second chances , were that sort of a clan ! " Part four . The Sycorax widows advance on the Doctor , who gives them a chance to leave this world . The Sycorax say they will leave this world to rot when the abstracts have freed the curse . The Doctor attaches himself to the lithic womb to control the abstracts . Donna and Norah are aboard the plane with the disease carrying abstracts . They soon find out that the pilots are abstracts too . The Sycorax prepare to kill the Doctor , who is in control of the abstracts on the island . He forces them into the lithic womb . They begin chanting , " I am the Doctor " . The Doctor can speak through the abstracts . He tells the Haxan Craw not to underestimate humanity and definitely not Donna Noble . Donna and Norah remove the pilots from the pilot seats . The Doctor begins to melt the walls of the lithic womb while a Sycorax falls into the acidic water , pushed by an abstract . The Doctor realises he can use the Sycorax ' s magma sculptor to replicate anything on Earth , and uses it to sculpt all of planet Earth . The Haxan Craw protests , saying the island is too small to recreate the whole of planet Earth . On the plane , Donna struggles to keep it in the air as the abstracts awake and begin breaking down the door . Donna redirects the plane to Shadow Cay . The Doctor replicates the seen in a Sandra Bullock film , and uses it to catch the plane . The Haxa Crawn smashes the part of the lithic womb connected to the Doctor . He runs off , hunted by the Haxan Craw . The " spell " of the magma sculptor continues to cripple Shadow Cay . The Doctor gets Jean to come with him on the way out . She is still upset over Harry ' s death . The island takes off ; it is a Sycorax spaceship . The Haxan Craw catches up with the Doctor , easily knocks him down and prepares to slay him . Suddenly a Torkfish winds itself around the Haxan Craw ' s neck . She realises it is Jean . The Torkfish keeps the two together with the rope . Jean uses the Haxan Craw ' s spear to knock her over the edge of a building , intending to join her in a plummet to her death . At the last moment the Doctor cuts the rope , saving Jean . The Haxan Craw falls to her death . The humans meet on a ferry as the island rises into the air . The Doctor says , " There ' s enough pain in loss to bring down mountains , to crush whole planets . . . and if pain turns to revenge it can tear you apart ! " The Sycorax ship explodes .