First things first: this isn’t a Doctor Who story and has no connection to Doctor Who at all. The explanation given for this story’s inclusion here (which you can also on the TARDIS wiki site) is tenuous at best. So this is very much a story for completists only.

That said, for what this is, it’s a very entertaining comic strip. Set prior to Thunderbirds, this shows us the first meeting of Lady Penelope and Parker and their first mission together. Parker is similar to Rose in 2005 Doctor Who in that he’s the outsider in Lady P’s mysterious and dangerous world. So he acts as the audience identification figure as we learn more about Lady Penelope’s life.

The plot is fairly basic (Lady P has to stop a madman from destroying the world) but the writing is very good (especially compared to the Doctor Who strip in TV Comic) and the artwork is stunning.

So, while not an essential read, I’m glad I made the effort to do so.

I’m not a thunderbirds person however my dad has a load of these comics from his childhood cause he was a huge thunderbirds fan from my understanding this was the first Penelope story and she shines in it I fully fell in love with her reading this