** spoiler alert ** 
 (view spoiler)[This collection just recently arrived at the local library. So. Not a review of the entire 5-chapter collection, so much as - something about the last page which I see has so many fans in an uproar. Colby (now The 6-Million-Dollar Colby(tm), it seems, after recent events nearly killed him, and necessitated certain further replacements) has a few sympathetic/depressive drinks with Everyone's Favorite Boid, Poyo the Wonder-Chicken, and on the last page, breaks the bird's neck. 
 Putting "why" aside for the moment (I do have some guesses, and they're probably all wrong, so - why bother with them?), what interests me even more is "How". Poyo's been blazing a bloody trail through the enemies of his friends (among others) and all it would have taken for them to defeat him would be to invite him to an alcohol summit, get him off his guard as he fell asleep, and them aim for his Achilles' neck - rather than always going for this old-fashioned fighting nonsense which he's far better at? How- fatally embarrassing (usually for them.) 
 Unless the reason Poyo succumbed so easily was (1) because he trusted Colby and (2) even more, because Colby's strength might be (very?) substantially enhanced now (my joke above about Colby-as-Steve-Austin; I'm guessing, just guessing; we've seen that there's extra metal plating at least in his head, but maybe there's more to the changes?) - so that altogether, etc. 
 That said, Poyo's neck seems to be broken; not having read anything in book 10 or since, I have no idea if the bird is in fact dead. (Not a fan of Poyo anyway. If he's a discarded invention of Walt Kelly's, then I'm glad Kelly stuck with Pogo instead. 
 "We have met the enemy, and he is us.") :) (hide spoiler)]