the master returns in a new body and guise, that of a street preacher, in the previously mentioned "doctor who magazine" (dwm) comic strip story "the fallen", although the doctor does not recognise him. the master reveals himself a few stories later, in "the glorious dead" (dwm 287-296). the master had survived the events of the television movie by encountering a cosmic being named esterath in the time vortex. esterath controls the glory, the focal point of the omniversal spectrum which underlies all existence. the master's scheme to take control of the glory fails, and he is banished to parts unknown (see kroton).