A Life of Matter and Death (comic story)

A Life of Matter and Death is a Doctor Who Magazine comic story featuring the Eighth Doctor and Izzy Sinclair.
== Synopsis ==
The Doctor and Izzy are seemingly trapped in limbo.
== Plot ==
After an explosion in the TARDIS, the Eighth Doctor and Izzy wake to find themselves on trial by "Jurors of the Limbo Inbetween" to determine whether they will "reside up above or burn in torment down below." After hearing the testimonies of villains who have been defeated by the Doctor, the two-headed, tentacled judge is about to pass judgement on The Doctor and Izzy when a person in a white gown with a hood-covered face bursts into the courtroom and helps them escape.
The hooded figure is a personification of the TARDIS. The "judge" is actually a "creature of the vortex" that had been sucking the life out of the TARDIS and this version of The Doctor and Izzy have been created by the TARDIS to help it fight off the parasite from within its memory banks. This version of the Doctor confronts the parasite, who conjures an army of the Doctor's foes to attack him, but the TARDIS' version of the Doctor counters by conjuring an army of his own, made up of his various friends and allies.
After an epic battle, the TARDIS' Doctor slays the parasite. Inside the TARDIS control room, the real Doctor and Izzy wake up after being knocked out by the explosion, not knowing what happened and go on to their next adventure.
== Characters ==
* Eighth Doctor
* Izzy Sinclair
* The Doctor's TARDIS
== Worldbuilding ==
* Much of "the Doctor" and "Izzy's" "adventure" takes place in interstitial space.
* The Doctor conjures a variety of people and creatures to fight to parasite, including Shayde, a Wrarth Warrior, the Freefall Warriors, Vesuvius, Sharon Davies, Maxwell Edison, Ivan Asimoff, Brill, Sir Justin, Morris, Angus Goodman, and Frobisher.
== Notes ==
* A Life of Matter and Death was reprinted in the Endgame graphic novel.
== Continuity ==
* Numerous past enemies of the Doctor appear, including an Iron Legionnaire, Magog, (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion) a member of the Brains Trust, (COMIC: City of the Damned) Brimo, (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Time Witch) Malevilus, (COMIC: The Tides of Time) the Moderator, (COMIC: The Moderator) a Profiteer of Ephte, (COMIC: Profits of Doom!) a Kalik, (COMIC: Train-Flight) one of Mortakk's hybrid creatures, (COMIC: Final Genesis) Kephri, (COMIC: The Curse of the Scarab) a Dryrth, (COMIC: The Lunar Strangers) and a Vortexian. (COMIC: Land of the Blind)
* Amongst those who bear witness against the Doctor are General Ironicus, (COMIC: The Iron Legion) Josiah W. Dogbolter (COMIC: The Moderator) and Beep the Meep. (COMIC: The Star Beast)
* The Doctor wields the sword of Sir Justin, and mentions how it slayed the "demon" Melanicus. (COMIC: The Tides of Time)
== External links ==
Category:Eighth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:1997 comic stories
Category:Stories set entirely in the TARDIS
Category:One part comics