Bad Company (comics)
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Cover of the Bad Company: Goodbye, Krool World trade paperback by Jock
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| Publisher | IPC Magazines, Fleetway Publications, Rebellion Developments |
| First appearance | 2000 AD #500 (December 13, 1986) |
| Created by |
Alan Grant John Wagner |
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| Type of organisation | Military unit |
| Agent(s) | Danny Franks Mac Trucker Kano Mad Tommy Churchill Thrax Wallbanger Malcolm X Dogbrain Flytrap Gobber Shrike Joe Scummer Stitches |
Bad Company is a comic book team created for British comics anthology 2000 AD by Alan Grant and John Wagner. Peter Milligan, along with regular collaborators Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy, reworked the concept into the form that was finally seen in the magazine in the mid-1980s. They first appeared in their self-titled strip in 2000 AD prog 500 (December 13, 1986).
Humanity is at war with a strange alien species known as the Krool. Young soldier Danny Franks is fighting on the planet Ararat, recruited by the renegades known as Bad Company after the destruction of his own platoon. As their name might suggest this is no ordinary group of soldiers; instead they are a collection of freaks and maniacs led by Kano, a Frankenstein's Monster-like character with a secret kept in a little box.
The Krool are an alien species that serve as the main foe in Bad Company. They are led by a being known as the "Krool Heart" on the unnamed Krool Home Planet. The "Krool Heart" controls the Krool race via its vast psychic mind. Whatever the heart thinks, the mind will obey.
The Krool have the technology to create "War Zombies", hybrids and other such monstrosities. Due to their sadistic behaviour, they have also created machines to extract the "soul" out of their human prisoners. They have also been known to employ sadistic brainwashed human captives as guards.
The Krool were ultimately responsible for creating Bad Company and their leader when they took half a human brain and inserted it into a Krool and vice versa thus creating the Krool-hybrid. In conversation between Mad Tommy and Danny Franks Tommy explains that the Krool have reached their evolutionary limit, while Humanity (specifically the two races brains,) are only using a fraction of their potential. This leads the Krool hybrid to lapse into insanity while Kano's human brain assumes dominance over the implanted Krool half-brain.
The Ararat War was a war waged against Humanity. The Krool wanted to capture Ararat to add to their seemingly infinite empire whereas the Earth elite needed it to evacuate to as Earth was on the verge of being destroyed by ecological catastrophe. They employed their "War Zombies" to attack the front line's defences. They finished off the survivors personally. Officially, the war ended when the planet imploded. Unofficially, the war continued on other worlds, known as Ghetto Planets, led by the remnants of Humanity who had survived the destruction of Earth.
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