Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster
- greatbigquiveringp
- Jan 15, 1976
- 1 min read
Just look at that cover. For Tom's debut, they went so far as to try and incorporate his head into the logo. That didn't work so now they just let it completely dominate the whole cover instead, pushing everything else to the peripheries. Even the Zygon appears to be staggering backwards and shielding itself from the vibrant pulses of light emanating from Tom's beatific bonce. He must have gone down well on the telly.
And is it just me, or is that a really unnecessarily faithful reproduction of the Skarasen? I really like it but it's very much not the approach they're going to take with Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion, so I wonder why they did it here. It may just be that there aren't any handy reference photos of the Loch Ness monster...
The back cover raises just as many questions with its query whether the Doctor, Sarah and Harry 'can [...] outwit the supreme cunning of the ruthless ZYGONS?'
(http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_and_the_Loch_Ness_Monster_(novelisation)). Is someone having a laugh? If not, then no one involved has read this or watched the thing it's based on because they are possibly the least appropriate villain yet for this kind of big-up.
To plunge deeper into the supreme comic ineptitude of this race, click on the cover to the right...
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