Bad Company was a 2000AD comic strip Alan Grant and John Wagner, but that was recreated from the ground up by Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy when it launched in 1986 with 2000AD #500.

A science fiction war comic it sees the survivors of a platoon banding together, made up of all manner of strange individuals.

The last time they appeared was in 2002… but now it's time for a revival.

At the end of a fairly generic series of Q&A at Recondite Pictures website, Peter Milligan mentioned his previously announced Vertigo series New Romancer… and then told us "Doing a new bad company series with 2000AD. Have a number of other things in the pipeline, bit too soon to talk about them."

And it started this week, as a tribute to his late partner and co-creator of the series, Brett Ewins, drawn by Rufus Dayglo and J McCarthy.

Bad Company // First Casualties (Part: 1) It has been a decade since mankind fought a vicious war against the alien species the Krool on the planet Ararat. Young Private Danny Franks was just a raw recruit until he was drafted into the ragtag guerrilla unit known as BAD COMPANY, commanded by the psychopathic Kano. The conflict ended when Ararat exploded, and much of Bad Company was killed or listed MIA — now, as Earth prepares to mark the ten-year anniversary, Franks and fellow ex-soldiers Thrax, Mad Tommy and Fly-Trap are living in a veterans' compound, dosed on psyche-chem to keep the nightmares at bay…

Here's a look at the beginning of next week's story… and a note to Brett.