Pureblood

Pureblood was a four-part Seventh Doctor comic story published around the 1992-1993 holiday season. It showed "ancient", non-cloned Sontarans, gave readers a rationale for why the Sontarans evolved into a clone race, and also served as a prequel to The Sontaran Experiment. Indeed, it offered a plausible explanation why Styre would have been seemingly unacquainted with Earth or humans in the distant future, even though Sontarans must have collected extensive data on the planet during the events of The Poison Sky, among others.

Pureblood is also important for furthering the then-close ties the Doctor Who Magazine comic stories were trying to forge with the Virgin New Adventures books by introducing Benny into the strip. While those fans who had never read a New Adventures book might have been completely confused by the sudden replacement of Benny for Ace, those who had been dutifully following along would have picked up on a number of continuity beats between the two ranges.

The story contained some of the earliest visual depictions of Benny. Penciller Colin Howard's interpretation long predated either Lisa Bowerman or Adrian Salmon's involvement with the character, leading to a Benny qui

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