Rest and Re-Creation (comic story)

Rest and Re-Creation
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Leela
Main enemy:	Anktra, Kestral
Main setting:	Shontaa
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics UK
Writer:	Warwick Gray
Artist:	Charlie Adlard
Colourist:	Helen Nally
Letterer:	Janey Rutter
Release details
Printed in:	Doctor Who Yearbook 1994
Release date:	September 1993
Format:	Comic
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Rest and Re-Creation was a comic published in the Doctor Who Yearbook 1994. It featured the Fourth Doctor, Leela and the Zygons.

Summary

The Fourth Doctor and Leela are enjoying a picnic on Shontaa, but their peace is interrupted by a duel to the death between Zygon warlords Anktra and Kestral using a variety of host bodies. The travellers release the Zygons' captives, putting an end to the duel and forcing the Zygons to return their now somewhat angered alien prisoners to their home planets.

Characters

• Fourth Doctor
• Leela
• Anktra
• Kestral

Worldbuilding

• Anktra and Kestral assume the forms of a Maakrian swamp-bear, a Tekazoid cave-beast, a Dox barbarian, a Shad'ath gladiator, a Korjan anthropoid, a Polar Modrelian, a tendrak and a valkari.

Notes

• The Shonters were one of the comically-named alien races mentioned in the 1975 parodical short film Hallo My Dalek, a parody of the Fourth Doctor era of Doctor Who.

Continuity

• The Doctor recalls using an ultrasonic pulse to lead a Skarasen. (TV: Terror of the Zygons)