The Colonial

The Colonial © Juke Box Productions AstroFacts Status: Active as of 1997 Earliest Appearance: 1997 Base of Operations: Melbourne, Australia Personal Data InfoDump Appearances (in Publication Order): Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #9 Event Timeline The Colonial An Australian hero active in the mid 1990s. History Although based in Melbourne, during the Enelsian Invasion he was defending Sydney alongside Bullroarer. Equipment He wields a whip as well as a rapier with some sort of charge or energy to it. Observations The name Colonial is derived from the Australian poem, "The Wild Colonial Boy." Early drafts had him named Bushranger(a rural outlaw) or Ned Kelly(a famous bushranger), to show that, like Lonestar he was a hero who operated further the outside of the law than most. Footnotes The info on the origins of the name of The Colonial from the Astro City Annotations