after witnessing Kate's prowess in combat, Colin suggested she continue crimefighting "oop north" while he remained "darn saff." Kate thereafter became a recurring character, occasionally teaming up with Colin and Steve. The strip would also feature humorous cameo appearances from Transformers and characters from the Marvel universe. A fan of The Prisoner television series, Stringer often added references to the TV show in the strip, most blatantly when Combat Colin found himself in "The Place of No Return"; a village resembling Portmeirion in the TV series. Trapped in the Village, Colin discovered it to be a place where old comic characters (Stringer's comedy back-up characters for Marvel UK) were "retired" to. Starting a revolt, Colin led his fellow heroes to escape. In the final issue of Marvel UK's Transformers series, Combat Colin fought a final battle against Megabrain. Afterwards, he and Steve threw away all their weapons to live a life of pacifism - unfortunately, one of those weapons was a nuclear bomb and they were seemingly killed. A new story Stringer produced for a one-off mini-comic revealed that the nuclear bomb had thrown the heroes back in time to Blackpool in 1967. Brand new Combat Colin strips have recently appeared in the digital comic Aces Weekly. Collected editions "The Place of No Return" has recently been reprinted as "Village of the Doomed" in the book Brickman Begins!. A six-issue Combat Colin comic, reprinting the 1980s strips, began in 2017 and as of 2019 the first four volumes are available for purchase through Lew Stringer's website. Notes References External links Lew Stringer's Combat Colin gallery at ComicSpace 1987 comics debuts Comics characters introduced in 1987 Humor comics Comics set in England Male characters in comics Marvel UK characters Self-reflexive works Metafictional comics