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Bad Company #5
Bad Company, Vol. 5: Goodbye, Krool World
Danny Franks signs up for the war against the Krool by becoming a member of Bad Company, an elite force of vicious killers.
250 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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Peter Milligan
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Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo series Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.
He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.
His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relaunched as X-Statix.
Many of Milligan's best works have been from DC Vertigo. These include: The Extremist (4 issues with artist Ted McKeever) The Minx (8 issues with artist Sean Phillips) Face (Prestige one-shot with artist Duncan Fegredo) The Eaters (Prestige one-shot with artist Dean Ormston) Vertigo Pop London (4 issues with artist Philip Bond) Enigma (8 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo) and Girl (3 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo).
Series:
* Human Target
* Greek Street
* X-Force / X-Statix
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo series Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.
He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.
His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relaunched as X-Statix.
Many of Milligan's best works have been from DC Vertigo. These include: The Extremist (4 issues with artist Ted McKeever) The Minx (8 issues with artist Sean Phillips) Face (Prestige one-shot with artist Duncan Fegredo) The Eaters (Prestige one-shot with artist Dean Ormston) Vertigo Pop London (4 issues with artist Philip Bond) Enigma (8 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo) and Girl (3 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo).
Series:
* Human Target
* Greek Street
* X-Force / X-Statix
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November 18, 2020
Honestly, I expected a lot more.
The original storyline positions itself as a sci-fi war narrative about an elite squad of super-soldiers (many of whom resemble off-brand takes on the Universal Monsters) battling a war on the colony planet Ararat against an evil, seemingly unstoppable alien race known as the Krool. The main character, Danny Franks, is a decent guy and a low-level grunt who gets drafted by Bad Company and slowly starts to become more hardened and cruel himself. The theme is worn right on its sleeve: "war turns people into monsters". Gotcha.
But what makes this such a disappointment is that this really, absurdly on-the-nose idea... is kind of all there is here? There's no pulpy fun to be had from seeing these monstrous creatures working together as commandos; hell, the fact that they're horror movie monsters has no bearing on their portrayal at ALL (the entire team would be swapped out-- save for Kano, the Frankenstein's Monster leader-- for the second arc of the book; replaced with even more generic aliens and a telekinetic). Bad Company is just a succession of unlikable or forgettable characters bickering angrily at each other over and over again, punctuated by dull action scenes, all of it threaded through with endless nihilistic pontification on the general pointlessness of life, war, and human bullsh*t. Hell, after the first half of the book, even the artwork sucks.
The second half attempts to get trippy and pull off a twist ending that you see coming from a mile away-- and even introduces a new theme, at the last second, about the cyclical nature of war and power corrupting, yadda yadda yadda-- but it's just not worth it. 2000 A.D. has much better stuff to offer than this.
The original storyline positions itself as a sci-fi war narrative about an elite squad of super-soldiers (many of whom resemble off-brand takes on the Universal Monsters) battling a war on the colony planet Ararat against an evil, seemingly unstoppable alien race known as the Krool. The main character, Danny Franks, is a decent guy and a low-level grunt who gets drafted by Bad Company and slowly starts to become more hardened and cruel himself. The theme is worn right on its sleeve: "war turns people into monsters". Gotcha.
But what makes this such a disappointment is that this really, absurdly on-the-nose idea... is kind of all there is here? There's no pulpy fun to be had from seeing these monstrous creatures working together as commandos; hell, the fact that they're horror movie monsters has no bearing on their portrayal at ALL (the entire team would be swapped out-- save for Kano, the Frankenstein's Monster leader-- for the second arc of the book; replaced with even more generic aliens and a telekinetic). Bad Company is just a succession of unlikable or forgettable characters bickering angrily at each other over and over again, punctuated by dull action scenes, all of it threaded through with endless nihilistic pontification on the general pointlessness of life, war, and human bullsh*t. Hell, after the first half of the book, even the artwork sucks.
The second half attempts to get trippy and pull off a twist ending that you see coming from a mile away-- and even introduces a new theme, at the last second, about the cyclical nature of war and power corrupting, yadda yadda yadda-- but it's just not worth it. 2000 A.D. has much better stuff to offer than this.
January 20, 2025
Kano. The Krool. Danny Franks. Someone will die, forever. Perhaps… or finally.
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