Thoroughly silly though perhaps children today wouldn't get the references and enjoy it as much as this child of the 80s. For the unitiated, Combat Colin is a comic that ran as a support strip for Action Force and then Transformers comics. It sent up all the military nonsese of Action Force in a way that presented this macho gun waving as absurd. It was also a love letter to and satire of the jingoistic military comics of the mid-20th century that helped to instill pointlessly psuedo-heroism and suicidal patriotism into two or more generations of young Brits. But as well as being gloriously subversive, Colin was also silly, charming, and best of all, funny. I loved it so much when I was a child that I adapted the Mystery of the Missing Pyramids into a short play for some church event or other, which was received with the levels of incomprehension that you can imagine. It was sometimes better than the Transformers comic that it supported! This is the first part of a complete collection, and covers the earliest incarnation of Colin, and you can see him really come into his own as the space allocated to him gets bigger allowing for storytelling rather than gag strips, and its there that Colin is best! ( )