In some of my oldest notes there are one-liners - simple story titles that are the barest of plot outlines. This is one of those - springing from the rather economical 'The Karkus Gets a Haircut (Monoids)' Nice of younger me to leave such a job for present me to complete!
The story title likely was inspired by an imaginary book from Monty Python's Bookshop Sketch ("Biggles Combs His Hair'), and Monoids... because they have mop-tops, I guess. There must be a better gag in there, surely. But I doubt there was back in 1998 or so.
Having the Karkus un-masked but not really seems obvious. I have a soft spot for the gag, and was inspired a little by one of my favourite Judge Dredd one-offs, 'In The Bath', in which the titular lawman effects an arrest of intruders in his apartment, all the while never leaving the tub or revealing his face.
Sheard the Sontaran was a nice discovery, though. I've always regarded them as a 'serious' Doctor Who monster, and never saw the pomposity ripe for parody in the Seventies and Eighties versions. Fast-forward and I've done three Sontaran Erato stories now, and in our post-Strax world, it seems hard to actually make them fun without losing their essential characteristics or referencing Moffat and Starkey's preposterous lovechild. I've given it a go, though, and this one's for my friend Al, who loves them even more than I do.
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