Doctor Who: Monstrous Beauty is the next Panini Comics comic collection, due to arrive in book and comic shops on 5th November 2024.
Offering more action-packed comic strip adventures through time and space, taken from the pages of the official Doctor Who Magazine, Monstrous Beauty includes the eponymous Ninth Doctor story that served as the Magazine’s entry into the multi-medium Time Lord Victorious story arc back in 2020, noted for introducing a female incarnation of Rassilon.
This collection also features the final Thirteenth Doctor stories, “Fear of the Future” and “The Everlasting Summer”, plus the Peter Cushing Doctor strip, “Dr. Who and the Mechonoids”, along with some outstanding strips from the 1990s specials: “Younger and Wiser”, “Man in the Ion Mask” (a story featuring the Third Doctor, trading wits with the Master), “Plastic Millennium”, “Are You Listening” and “The Seventh Segment”.
The lineup includes stories by writers Jacqueline Rayner, Scott Gray, Dan Abnett and Gareth Roberts, and artists Colin Andrew, Martin Geraghty, Russ Leach, Paul Peart, John Ross and Brian Williamson.
The collection also includes a full behind-the-scenes commentary section on the making of the stories.
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Sorry to be pedantic but I always thought it was Mechanoids (with an A) rather than Mechonoids (with an O)… Don’t tell me I’ve had this wrong for the last 59 years!
There are variant spellings of the Daleks robot foes – in the article above, we have used the title per the comic strip being published, “Dr. Who and the Mechonoids”, but “Mechanoids” is used elsewhere.
Mechonoids (sometimes spelled “Mechanoids”) first appeared in the Doctor Who television series in episodes 5 and 6 of the 1965 serial “The Chase”. They were conceived by writer Terry Nation, designed by Raymond Cusick, and built by Shawcraft Engineering.
An attempt to recapture the success of Dalekmania, they battled Skaro’s mutants, and faced them again in the pages of the TV Century 21 “The Daleks” comic strip. This led to some surprisingly strong opinions as to the spelling of their name – ‘Mechonoids’ in the production paperwork for “The Chase”, but ‘Mechanoids’ in the comic.
However, most recently, they were identified as “Mechanoids” in the Doctor Who animated Time Lord Victorious DALEKS! series, in Episode Three, “Planet of the Mechanoids“.
So you’re right, and we’re right. How’s that for continuity chaos?
Presumably the joke with that spelling is that it’s slightly off brand because set in the Peter Cushing/Milton Subotsky universe of Who.