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Which brings us back to that missing piece. In August 2000, Transforce organiser Paul Cannon took to alt.toys.transformers to advertise his new "official" ''Humph the Cat'' website featuring a new story: "This is not the story featured in the Transforce magazine," – i.e., not "Humph the Cat in Shefferham".<ref name=goog>[https://groups.google.com/g/alt.toys.transformers/c/qy27g9PZCEQ/m/ARnAxgNJXm8J "(UK COMIC) Humph the Cat, a new strip" on alt.toys.transformers]</ref> A panel from the "Shefferham" strip ''was'' used to advertise the subsite on the revamped main page of the Transforce website in late 2000.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000915080802/http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk:80/primus/comics.htm Transforce: The home of UK Transformers and Beast Wars (archived, 2000)]</ref> The text on the ''Humph the Cat'' website references a four page appearance in ''Do-Do Man'' issue 4 before being "pleased to offer just a taste" of the Humph-centric storyline due to appear in ''Do-Do Man'' issue 5.<ref name=humphweb>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010708134320/http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/primus/humph.htm Transforce's ''Humph the Cat'' website (archived)]</ref> ''Do-Do Man'' issue 5 does not appear to have actually been published,<ref>[https://kazybridscharactercreation.blogspot.com/2011/01/do-do-man-issue-4.html "Do-Do Man issue 4"], [https://kazybridscharactercreation.blogspot.com/2011/04/do-do-man-cover-artwork-for-mobile.html "Do-Do Man cover artwork for mobile phone strips"], and [https://kazybridscharactercreation.blogspot.com/2011/05/do-do-man-series-1.html "Do-Do Man the series #1"] on Mychailo Kazybrid's Character Creation. Note that the four published issues were preceded by [https://kazybridscharactercreation.blogspot.com/2011/01/do-do-man-limited-edition.html a stand-alone limited edition], explaining references made to "all five published issues".</ref> and archives of the ''Humph'' website have not retained any images,<ref name=humphweb/> so exactly what was published on it is entirely up to speculation.
So here's the speculation: the 2000 Transforce mag included an interview with Kazybrid in which he revealed that, after two abortive attempts to produce a ''Matt and the Cat'' graphic novel, a new story was being put together featuring "old favourites" such as [[Olia-cym]], [[Digbeth]], and the Slave-Master. Paul Cannon's mid-2000 a.t.t. post mentioned that the ''Humph'' web comic would feature "familiar faces [cropping up] from past Transformers comics".<ref name=goog/> It seems likely that the ''Humph the Cat'' website featured at least some of the 23-page sequel story that Kazybrid would publish on his blog in 2010,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130504040529/http://mychailokazybrid.blogspot.com/ Humph the Cat Blogspot (archived, 2013)]</ref> which did indeed feature several familiar faces (as seen in these freely available pages<ref>[https://kazybridscharactercreation.blogspot.com/2011/01/humph-cat-page-5.html Page 5] and [https://kazybridscharactercreation.blogspot.com/2011/01/humph-cat-page-6.html page 6] on Mychailo Kazybrid's Character Creation</ref>) and follow up on the cliffhanger in the 2001 Transforce mag... though this does make the comment about ''Do-Do'' man issue 5 crossover to be a bit of an enigma. By 2015, the story was removed from Kazybrid's blog;<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150720205441/http://mychailokazybrid.blogspot.com/ Humph the Cat Blogspot (archived, 2015)]</ref> it saw a more prestigious publication, colourised by Kazybrid's partner Sarah Sier (and chopped into A5 landscape pages), in volumes [https://www.acesweekly.co.uk/vol17-issue1 17] and [https://www.acesweekly.co.uk/vol18-issue1 18] of [https://www.acesweekly.co.uk/home-aces ''Aces Weekly''], a digital comics anthology series established by [[w:David Lloyd (comics)|David Lloyd]]. Kazybrid frequently contributes other strips to ''Aces Weekly'', so
==''Matt and the Cat'' strips in TFUK==
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