Once Upon a Time-Lord (comic story)

Once Upon a Time-Lord was a Sixth Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine. It is notable for having several pages written out in story form with accompanying comic panels. With its end, it concluded both the Voyager and Astrolabus themes that had started in the Sixth Doctor's second strip, Voyager.

Summary
On the trail of Astrolabus, the Sixth Doctor and Frobisher find themselves in a land of make-believe where nothing is real.

Part 1
The Sixth Doctor heads into the Cabinet of Astrolabus to retrieve Frobisher. As the Doctor exits the TARDIS, he is attacked by a dark rider who attempts to kill him, but who rides away after the Doctor ducks. The Doctor finds Frobisher, who insists the Doctor come and meet his "friends", but the Doctor resists, saying that he doesn't trust Astrolabus, and warns Frobisher that he believes that the reality they are in isn't real.

Meanwhile, Astrolabus watches them from inside a carnival, where children watch the Doctor and Frobisher. Astrolabus instructs them to put on their "thinking caps" so that they can control the story.

In the forest, with their lives now reading like a storybook, the Doctor and Frobisher meet Brock, who gives Frobisher a worm. They soon come under attack, and the natives try to cook and eat Frobisher. However, Frobisher is saved by Tarzan.

After escaping, Frobisher feels like he's not in control, and the Doctor urges him to try and find answers in the castle. Meanwhile, Astrolabus urges the children to think up "something really dangerous", and sure enough, a gigantic troll begins attacking the Doctor and Frobisher, and they make a run for the castle

Part 2
To be added.

Characters

 * Sixth Doctor
 * Frobisher
 * Astrolabus
 * Voyager
 * Little Red Riding Hood
 * Brock
 * Tarzan

Worldbuilding

 * The Doctor is forced to quote The Lord of the Rings: "By Elbereth and Luthien the Fair, you shall have neither the Ring, nor me!"
 * The Land of Make-Believe registers no signs of life whatsoever aboard the TARDIS.
 * Frobisher is noted, by the Doctor, to have been raised as a guttersnipe in a Xenon slum.
 * Knave, varlet, vagabond, caitiff, wretch, rascal, rapscallion, blackguard, shyster, skunk, cur, tyrant, fiend, cad and tergiversator are words which the Doctor applies to Astrolabus.

Continuity

 * The Doctor journeys into the Cabinet of Astrolabus to find Frobisher after he was kidnapped by Astrolabus. (COMIC: )
 * The Doctor has previously been to a land where fictional characters were real. (TV: )
 * The Doctor is still haunted by thoughts of Voyager's threat to end all of existence unless his star charts are returned. (COMIC: )