Previous volumes in this series - the Tom Baker and Peter Davison ones - hit me like hammer blows from the past, but this first Colin Baker collection is even better: like the Paul McGann volumes this was all brand new to me. Before I get onto saying why it was brilliant, I should cover the two things that are slightly annoying about it. Like all of these Doctor Who books from Panini it has the words "Graphic Novel" on the front cover, when it patently isn't. A graphic novel is a lengthy comic b...

Poetic, surreal, punchy, and funny. Parkhouse's writing really elevates this material, although there is a letdown towards the end. It needed a stronger denoument that was less abstract. But Frobisher, a character I was deeply skeptical about, won me over. And I appreciate the ambition of the whole creative team on this one, pushing a story past the traditional confines of a Doctor Who script.

Clever and subversive tales featuring Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor and shapeshifter Frobisher the Penguin are brought to life by Alan Ridgway’s stunning art.

Fun and twisty stories that definitely remind me of the 80s. I finally see why Frobisher gets much love from devoted Doctor Who fans.

Some of the stories are brilliant and atmospheric. Others are forgettable. Frobisher shines, and can still change shape. Peri really isnt in it much, so don't buy it for her comic adventures.

A great collection of Sixth Doctor comic strip adventures which were originally published in DWM during the mid-eighties.Most notable for the introduction of Frobisher, the shape shifting penguin who travels with the Doctor.I’m not the biggest graphic novel reader, but I really enjoyed this collection.Frobisher is such a great character, it would be impossible for him to appear in the TV show. It’s always nice to have more Sixth Doctor stories!Would recommend!

Doctor Who: Voyager sees the end of Steve Parkhouse's five-year run on the DWM comic, and he certainly goes out...well...even weirder than he came in. The Voyager storyline, encompassing four separate stories, abandons the pretense at science fiction seen throughout most of his Davison strips and parades a real science-fantasy sensibility. Thankfully, that works, even if the results are pretty mind-boggling. Parkhouse's interpretation of Colin Baker's Doctor is roughly the same as his Davison -

2 1/5 starsI picked this up on a whim from the library, mostly because it was by artist John Ridgway. I'm not a huge fan of his very distinctive black and white work, but he has done a lot of really good stuff for 2000AD in the past, so I was curious to see what he could do with some Doctor Who material. For the most part he does quite a good job. His portrayal of the Sixth Doctor and Peri is very well done, they are instantly recognisable. His work is very crisp and clean here, and benefits fro...

Reprinted from Doctor Who Magazine #88-#107, Voyager contains the adventures of the Sixth Doctor and his alien companion Frobisher, a shape-changing alien Whifferdill who prefers to look like a penguin, all illustrated by John Ridgway who gets a two-page interview at the start. The first half of the book has stories by Steve Backhouse, which are visionary and surreal and take the Doctor to strange places in inner and outer space, swirling around the sinister magician Astralabus, but including of...

Shame that Colin Baker's Doctor never got a TV episode as good as some of the comics/novels featuring his Doctor. I liked the sixth Doctor a lot, but he was unfortunately caught in a bad period of the shows history and got a bit of a raw deal.This graphic novel is a wild story that walks the border between sci-fi and fantasy, as the sixth Doctor and his sidekick, Forbisher the talking penguin, is caught up in the plots of two cosmic beings, an eccentric thief/inventor that may or may not be a re...

I’m not reviewing the edition pictured, but the Marvel coloured version from the late eighties which just keeps the first Frobisher story, Voyager itself, Polly the Glot and Once Upon a Time Lord and collects them as a graphic novel. And furthermore, it’s 100% my favourite Doctor Who thing ever: it’s eccentric, eerie, silly, baffling, brilliant and just full of invention and ideas. Ridgway is an astonishing artist at his very best here, and Parkhouse’s writing is just glorious, especially nailin...

A collection of stories that ran in several issues of Doctor Who Magazine, this book starts out with the introduction of a new companion. A shape shifting alien, that for personal reasons (never explained)takes on the appearance of a penguin and goes by the name of Frobisher. Seeing the Doctor travel around with a talking penguin is rather silly. I kind of liked Frobisher's original alien form and he never does use his shape shifting abilities after taking the penguin form. I guess this was done...

This graphic novel uses the Colin Baker doctor and a very interesting character called the Whifferdill who can change shape into almost anything. He seems to get the best of the Doctor at first, but ends up joining with him and helping on a series of adventures.There's a lot of humor in the stories, and there's also a very serious, very dark-seeming character that appears, searching for some star maps that a crook had managed to steal.The individual stories are quite good and vary enough from e

I like surrealism and out-of-this-world fantasy but it simply wasn't suited here. No explanation is given for Frobisher joining the Doctor instead of turning him in for the whole ransom. Why does he sometimes shape-shift and sometimes not? Astrolabus' manner of speech is insane. Overall there was simply a sense that the artists were revelling in free imagination and the unlimitless budget.One point of interest was the story 'Funhouse'. A strange alien house that tried to absorb the energy of the...

From the pages of dr who magazine. I always liked colin Baker as the doctor despite not being convinced by his TV stories and the comic strips in this first volume of his era reflect the softening of his TV persona that helped make these stories more enjoyable than the TV version. The artwork is decent and a new companion in the shape of frobisher is a fun addition to the strips. Very enjoyable.

Penguin is the CUTTEST!

Surprisingly good graphic novel/newspaper comic strip collection. The Sixth Doctor stars in this collection of stories that introduce his shape-shifting companion Frobisher and sets the Doctor on a journey where he doubts his own perceptions at every turn. I'm not the biggest Colin Baker fan, since he was never really allowed to develop his character properly on the TV show, but I enjoyed these stories immensely!

Doctor Number Six may have been short changed on screen, but his comic adventures are most welcome to me. It is an era of the show that I missed when it was first broadcast in the US, and I am trying to make up for lost time. The comic is very whimsical and could never have been pulled off on television in the 1980s. Frobisher, the shape shifter, is a unique companion for The Doctor and I enjoyed reading their banter.