#combat colin

[onedegreeofsoniccomics]

Action Force #5: "Codename: Combat Colin"

Writer/Pencils/Inks/Letters: Lew Stringer

Colors: uncredited in-house Marvel UK staffer

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ACTION FORCE 14 – Cover Date 6th June 1987 Fire - And Ice! Cover art by Geoff Senior

Published 30 years ago this week!

Quick Kick heads out into the mountains of China in a solo adventure this week - seeking an old friend but instead finding the insidious coils of Cobra!

Also: Steve Yeowell art!

The TAC page profiles Wild Bill's Dragonfly (reminder, Wild Bill is from Hull). Quick Kick also got a profile but the scan screwed up.

Meanwhile at the back of the book Combat Colin and Semi-Automatic Steve start a multi-part adventure - One of Our Milkmen is Missing! - by Lew Stringer.

In the issue: Action Force: Cold Comfort part 1 Script: Simon Furman / Pencils: Steve Yeowell / Inks: Dave Harwood / Letters: Starkings / Colour: Steve White

Action Force: Snake-Eyes: The Origin part 4 Script: Larry Hama / Pencils: Frank Springer / Inks: Andy Mushynsky / Letters: Rick Parker / Colour: George Roussos

[theperfectquestion]

If I taught a media studies course I would make a whole lecture on Urban Strike, the helicopter game published by Electronic Arts in 1994, and the comic adaptation of it published in 2000AD.

I suspect the comic was rejected for Sonic the Comic and retooled for 2000AD with lashes of silly ultraviolence. It was written by Steve White and Brian Williamson, in the cadence of Lew Stringer's Combat Colin, and showed a clear comtempt for the game. But the game has a clear contempt for itself, or at least juvenile action drama that fetishises the military. The game is trying so hard to satirise the genre that it accidentally predicted several major world events.

The comic leaned too far into parody, and became irrelevant, while the game took the corner just right and became legendary.

[downthetubes]

Years before Marvel even thought of Secret Invasion, Marvel UK did their own version of, starring the Gwanzulum...

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Happy Birthday to Combat Colin who made his first appearance On This Day, 29th March 1987, in Marvel UK's Action Force No.5. Character ©️ Lew Stringer | Collections available here https://ko-fi.com/V7V11A7V6G/shop

[thelastgherkin]

Hi, I saw you were looking for The Marvel Bumper Comic. I do have a few of these including #9. Iirc, the only Transformers content is that the middle pages are a poster of the wraparound cover of Transformers #200, with boxes giving short bios of the characters depicted. I think there was a fairly lengthy Combat Colin story (or it might have been in another issue). All I remember from it was a villain putting a barefoot Colin on a roller covered in feathers. [I'll continue in another ask]

[Continued from previous ask]. The Doctor Who story is a reprint of Culture Shock by Morrison and Hitch, split across 2 issues. Real Ghostbusters were short (maybe only 3 pages?) stories written by Dan Abnett. I think there might have been an anthropomorphic parody of Eastenders. I'll try and fish the comics out when I get chance. To my eyes,the cover of 9 is someone warning that the Tranformers themselves are going to "try something on", but they're too late and Galvatron is already there.

Interesting stuff regarding comics I'd love to know more about! I can tell you that the Eastenders parody was called "Halibut Square", and the Colin strip is at least part of the story originally from Action Force issues 48-50:

Please keep me posted!!

[downthetubes]

Cartoonist Lew Stringer, the creator of Combat Colin and Tom Thug, and a much appreciated support to downthetubes, has some more original comic art up for sale on eBay

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[downthetubes]

Comic creator and archivist Lew Stringer is selling a varied selection of original British comic art on eBay this week, not only by him, a treat in itself, but also by Albert Pease, Richard Elson and Jimmy Hansen, too.

“Sonic the Comic”original art up for sale