Slimmer! (comic story)
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Slimmer was the Doctor Who back-up strip which appeared in the pages of The Incredible Hulk Presents #11. Like all in the series, it was monochromatic and featured the Seventh Doctor travelling alone at the beginning and ending of the story.
Summary
The Seventh Doctor goes to Weight-A-Way, the "health club at the edge of the galaxy". Instead of losing weight, he encounters the universe's biggest glutton, who threatens to eat him alive!
Characters
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Notes
Due to the parodic nature of the narrative:
- the description of Weight-A-Way as the "health club at the edge of the galaxy" is likely a pun on Douglas Adams' Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
- the destruction of the Gromongus is immediately evocative of the demise of Mr Creosote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Continuity
- The Doctor mentions to the receptionist that he's come to Weight-A-Way for his "950 year checkup" — a figure that roughly tallies with his stated age in DW: Time and the Rani.
- The receptionist also notes that he has a binary vascular system and that he has a slow pulse, a condition the Doctor is first said to exhibit in DW: Spearhead from Space.
Timeline
- This story takes place after IHP: The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise
- This story takes place before IHP: Nineveh
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