 The character has a prominent role in the Torchwood magazine comic strip " Shrouded " set between Torchwood 's third television series , subtitled Children of Earth , and fourth series Miracle Day and written by Gareth David @-@ Lloyd who portrayed Ianto Jones in the first three series of Torchwood . John Hart is seen to have observed Ianto 's funeral from a distance before later settling in Mexico , earning a living by buying and selling alien artefacts washed up from a rift similar to the one in Cardiff . A past version of Ianto is then contacted by a malevolent time @-@ travelling seductress seeking to use the knowledge of his death to alter time for her own gain . As Jack has left Earth and Gwen has a newborn child , John is required to team up with Gwen 's husband Rhys Williams in order to restore the original timeline . 
