History: (Fables #2 (fb, BTS)) - In the Homeland Colin made a home of straw which was blown down by Bigby The Wolf.

(Fables #3 (fb)) - Colin and the other little pigs were in the middle of a battle with the Adversary in the Homelands.

(Fables # 2) - When the fables left the Homeland Colin was sequestered in the Farm, Fabletowns upstate NY annex for non-human looking fables. He escaped multiple times, hiding out in the big bad wolf Bigby’s apartment. Bigby felt he owed him for destroying his old home back in The Homelands and trying to eat him. Colin was more than happy to guilt him into letting him crash on his couch. Colin thought he was too sophisticated for a bucolic lifestyle. Bigby told him he had to be back on the truck leaving for the Farm in an hour, and that he was through helping him out. Bigby and Snow White were investigating a murder in Rose Red’s, Snow White’s sister, apartment. There was no body, but lots and lots of blood. Not long after that, Bigby and Snow White were at a candy store that Colin ran past in order to avoid going back to the farm.

(Fables #3) - While Bigby was running over the details of the investigation into the presence of blood and absence of body in Rose Reds apartment, Colin was sleeping in the bushes outside, still trying to avoid being carted back to The Farm. 

(Fables # 4) - All the Fables who could pass as human (sadly, not Colin, or any other resident of The Farm) got together once a year to remember how they were driven from their home land by The Adversary and give thanks that they survived. During the annual festivities for Remembrance Day, Colin snuck into the kitchen to try and steal some food but was mistaken for a yet-to-be-cooked entrée for the feast. During the ball, Bigby revealed the solution to the murder case in true Columbo fashion. Rose Red and Jack (of the beanstalk) faked her death in order to get out of a marriage contract with Bluebeard.

(Fables # 5) - Colin was still on the loose and sleeping under a topiary that looked like an elephant.

(Fables # 6) - Because of his stunt During Remembrance Day, Colin was found out, and slated to be returned to The Farm the next day. One of the conditions of Rose Red’s punishment for faking her own death was one year of probation, which she’d serve on The Farm. Snow White, always the multi-tasker, decides to drop Colin and her sister off at the same time and to check in on how the residents of The Farm were getting on. When they arrived, the farm was deserted, with the groundskeeper Waylan disturbingly absent from the grounds. All the non-human Fables were at a meeting run by one of Colins' cousins, which was odd indeed. Initially Snow White was told it was a simple town meeting about Remembrance Day, and how everyone felt they should have been invited, but after hours Dunn and Posey (the other two of the three little pigs) told her that most of the Farm Fables were simply day dreaming about staging a revolution to go take back the Homelands from the Adversary, but it was just a matter of their catharsis, nothing was being actually planned. Accepting the word of a pig , Snow White and Rose Red went to sleep. Dunn and Posey start questioning Colin about what, if anything, he learned about fables from the City willing to join their cause and if he was able to get a copy of the Woodland Office key. Unfortunately for Colin, he had not. Shortly thereafter Colin was beheaded and impaled on a pike in the road by the Farm revolutionaries.

(Fables# 7) - Colin's cousins showed Snow White his carcass, and they implored her to find out what happened, but only without the aid of Bigby Wolf, for he was forbidden by their charter to set foot on The Farm. (understandable that the three pigs wouldn’t want the big, bad wolf huffing and puffing around their domiciles.) In an interesting turn of events, amidst Snow Whites investigation, Goldilocks, Papa Bear and Mama Bear were digging the grave for the rest of Colins body. Mamma Bear doesn’t think it was really necessary to kill another Fable to get their point across, but Goldilocks sees it as the first step towards realizing the revolution.

(Fables # 10) - During the battle the ensues after The Farms revolution was realized (albeit, prematurely) Snow White suffered a gunshot wound to the head (not fatal, surprisingly) and in her coma, she saw Colins’ severed head on a pike. She wondered aloud if she was dead, and Colin suggested she try just waking up, so she did.

(Fables # 19) - Colin appeared as a beheaded apparition again to Snow White, this time talking to her about how her pregnancy and the Farm were somehow related. He also warned her, in true vague oracle fashion, about a huge upcoming battle that could possibly involve the mundy (non-Fable) population.

(Fables # 31) - While dreaming, Snow White called to Colin to ask him if the worst part of the battle was over. His answer was unsatisfying and unsettling,

(Fables # 49) - Colin came to see Snow White one last time, to say goodbye. He said things get better for her from here on out and it was time for him to move on to another plane.

Comments: Adapted to comics by Bill Willingham. 

Wikipedia provides more information on the fairy tale Colin was based on.

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