My partner said to me "What's the thing with Combat Colin?". Well, Combat Colin is a silly pastiche of all the macho war comics that used to exist, with a good dose of surreal humour and the occasional fart joke. It ran as a back-up strip in Action Force comic (the UK's version of GI Joe, American military franchise) and then joined Transformers when Action Force was subsumed into that comics. Thus the strips relied on a half-dozen boxes and the punchline was normally a bad pun. This is a collection of strips that first ran in Transformers comics in 1989 and 1990, none of which I read the first time round. There's nothing here to match the Kung Fu Penguins story, but its jolly stuff nevertheless, and functions very effectively as mocking foil to the boring Action Force strips. ( )