Polly the Glot [COMIC/1984.11.8 ~ 1985.1.10]

★★★☆☆

  John Ridgway's beautiful illustrations ease us into this next exciting romp, this time a quest to free a Zyglot from one of the most hilariously boring races ever conceived for Doctor Who. Ivan Asimoff is a wonderful character, and the Sixth Doctor and Frobisher are written with the characteristic wit and charm that the Marvel Comics range is known for. 

  I mean, just look at this thing. Ridgway really is one of Doctor Who's most special contributors; the vastness of space, the beautiful Zyglots, the wackiness of the Defender, even down to the comical way Frobisher dons a fedora to "kidnap" Dr. Asimoff... they're all bursting at the seams with imagination, and I find them absolutely wonderful. Astrolabus continues to be a fascinating foe for the Doctor, an interdimensional being who spews just as much French as he does words of untold wisdom, and I rather like the idea of this whimsical being taking on an intellectual role in an academic society for the emancipation of great space beings.

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  Polly the Glot is one of those 'have a wonderful time' stories; you get in, you have a bundle of laughs, and you get out. Nothing particularly complicated is going on behind what you see, but it proves not to be a problem when what you see is already full of imagination and wonder.