Bad Company, Vol. 1

Bad Company #1

by Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins (Illustrator)

Collects:

- Bad Company 1-10 (Progs 500-509)

Genres: Comics

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Librarian note:
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

Reviews

[Alessandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Think about some bastard soldiers, the baddest of the bad, some real lunatics one way or the other. Still, you won’t be near to the Bad Company and their uncharismatic but tough-as-hell leader Kano. A war comic about the inutility of war, shown through the lenses of a conflict on a far away planet where humans battle the Krool, a sadistic race of monstrous bipeds (a description that can fit perfectly also for the human race, to think of it…). Earth is dying, and the planet has been chosen by Earth’s few select as the only way to let the human race survive; but the aliens want it to use it as a bridgehead to conquer Earth itself… hence the war. Pete Milligan at his best for the script, Edwin’s and McCarthy doing a great job with pencils and inks. A must for any military action fan… or for any lover of a good comic book.

[boofykins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Displaying the cruelties and savageries of war while not glorifying it all. Bad Company is a commando group of literal monsters. I’ve gotta get my hands on the rest of this anti-war epic.

[Timo · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first Bad Company series I read where done after this one. Now, reading the origin-story, it all makes so much more sense and I have to admit, this one is a really good one.
Not forgetting nice, grimey art by Brett Ewins. Good one.