Lew Stringer has created many strips over the years for a huge variety of titles and publishers, but he's probably best known for his work for Marvel UK for various titles in the 1980s and early 1990s. Week in, week out he would produce a wonderful comedy strip appropriate to the themes of the comic in question. Many such as
Robo-Capers,
Captain Wally,
Snail-Man or
Macho Man are fondly remembered by readers to this day, but above all the top stand-out strip is
Combat Colin. Created for
Action Force weekly, the strip could have ended when that title died after just fifty issues but it instead made a transfer to
Transformers (into which
Action Force weekly was nominally merged) and lasted until the end of that title, even when the
Action Force/
G.I. Joe strip wasn't running in it. Recently Lew Stringer has produced the first of a series of collected editions of the strip, with issue #1 reproducing all of the strips from the
Action Force days and today I'll be looking at that.
