It's a wrap - Striker's entire archive from 1985 is now complete!

Striker's entire 40-year archive of stories is now available as a box set of 26 A4 hardback books, which can also be purchased in digital formats. Both options are on sale in our online shop.

Every volume has a foreword by Pete Nash, who describes events that were happening behind the scenes at Striker during the period covered.

The first volume features all the black and white hand-drawn strips from 1985 and the last includes all the adventures from the final comics, plus a new story for 2024 that brings Striker to a fitting finale.

My son gets married and I get covid!

By PETE NASH

Muddy Maladies, as Eric would say - my wife Jill and I are recovering from covid, having caught it at our son Adam’s wedding in London. Fortunately it was no worse than a dose of flu, but we’re both thankful for being double-jabbed or it could have been much worse.

With covid restrictions being lifted today, it’s clear that more and more people who have been fully vaccinated will be getting the virus sooner or later, as it won’t be going away. We’re going to have to live with it - and on the plus side, getting covid after two jabs is like getting a booster shot, according to scientists!

We’re hopefully on the mend now, but being laid up will likely cause a slight delay with the release of Volume 16 of the Striker collection. It should still be ready next month as scheduled, but probably towards the end of the month rather than the middle.

Volume 16 includes all the strips that were published in Nuts magazine in 2010 - and features the debut of Sheik Mustapha Futti Kalub!

STROLL ON - STRIKER FANS TREAD IN NASHY'S FOOTSTEPS!

Here are some photos sent to me by Striker fans Jackie and Cris Booth from Manchester, who last week followed the route of my marathon walk along the Greensand Way in Kent that I wrote about in Volume 11 of the Complete Striker Collection.

They stopped off at the same pubs I visited in 2005 and arrived at the Swan on the Green pub in East Peckham to see that it had temporarily changed its name to the Hare and Hound for the filming of an episode for the new series of Darling Buds of May.

They are clearly a lot fitter than me as they covered 28 miles in one day compared to my 18 or so!