Art Gallery
(Whispers) Welcome to the Target Art Gallery. Here in front
of you is a genuine Andrew Skilleter, one of the most prolific Doctor Who
artists of all time. This is his Caves of
Androzani, a late masterpiece from
his oeuvre, and a rendering of one of the finest Doctor Who stories of them
all.
Note the breathtaking simplicity of the composition, and yet
it is an image that says so much. The face of Sharaz Jek, a madman with a boob
fixation, caught forever in appreciation of Peri’s most splendid rack. His eyes
convey his yearning as he gazes up at a poster of Miss Brown in her Planet of
Fire bikini tacked to his bedroom wall, wishing that John Nathan-Turner had
kept his strange decision to keep the companions in the same costume beyond
Season 19. His hands clutch up at his face as he plots the downfall of Morgus,
wistful and lonely, his desk litter with screwed up paper from his attempts to
find something – anything – to rhyme with Perpugilliam.
Yes, that’s right. Above his head is that most unique of
images. Mr Colin Baker, in his only cover appearance, the mix of clashing
colours a clear prelude of what is to come. It is the finest image of the lesser-talented Baker in what was ironically his finest story.
It is, I’m certain you’ll all agree, a masterpiece.
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