Guest-starring COMBAT COLIN!

UPDATE: COMBAT COLIN now co-features with Brickman in most issues of ELEPHANTMEN!

BRICKMAN BEGINS also includes a story featuring COMBAT COLIN, the bobble-hatted one-man army and his comrade in arms SEMI-AUTOMATIC STEVE (another er, one-man army). Some of you will remember the characters from the regular humour strip that ran in Marvel UK's TRANSFORMERS and ACTION FORCE comics in the late Eighties/early Nineties. So what's he doing here of all places?

Well, one of Combat Colin's adventures featured Brickman (and a host of my other comic characters) as guest stars in a serial entitled "The Place of No Return". Colin and Steve are abduced to find themselves in a strange village that holds a dark secret; a place from which there is apparently no escape.

Fans of the 1967/68 UK tv series THE PRISONER (starring Patrick McGoohan as "Number Six") will recognise this premise as being a spoof of that quirky, surreal, and intelligent series. Most of the outdoor scenes in The Prisoner were filmed in Portmeirion, a fascinating Italianate village in North Wales created by the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis.

Retitled "Village of the Doomed", there's enough in-jokes in the six-page comic strip to keep Prisoner fans happy, but the quickfire comedy will also appeal to readers who are unfamiliar with the tv series.