The final "Modesty Blaise" strip ran in the "Evening Standard" on 11 April 2001. Some of the newspapers that carried the series, feeling that it had become a tradition for their readers, began running it again from the beginning. O'Donnell, to give Romero some additional work, gave the artist permission to adapt one of his short stories ("The Dark Angels") as a comic that was published in the Scandinavian anthology magazine "Agent X9" in 2002, later being reprinted in the US in a special issue of "Comics Revue".