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| - In 2210, Danny Franks was 24 and engaged to be married when he decided to go and fight the sadistic Krool on the planet Ararat, because he craved the approval of his brothers Ted and Chris . His company, led by Commander Peck, had only been on the planet for two weeks when they were almost all wiped out by the Krool. The rest of them joined Bad Company, led by the terrifyingly brutal soldier Kano. The first series of Bad Company took the form of a diary written by Danny, detailing his gradual desensitization to the horrors of war and his relationship with fellow soldiers such as Mac, Mad Tommy and Wallbanger.
Ararat eventually exploded, after most of Bad Company had died. The second series of Bad Company picked up the story two years later, when Danny led the second incarnation of the group in search of a 'monster' slaughtering humans and Krool, which turned out to be Kano. It was also narrated by Danny's diary .
Danny's relationship with Kano was a complicated one. He initially feared him and his savage pragmatism, but gradually found himself drawn closer to him, crossing a Rubicon when he agreed not to reveal Kano's mercy killing of torture victims. Danny also feared turning into Kano and was plagued with visions of himself wearing Kano's features. However, he led the search for Kano two years later with the assertion that, "It would mean something if Kano led us. That would be worth dying for." The alter ego, once despised, was now embraced.
Danny's other notable relationship was with the 'boom baby' Sheeva, who had the power to make people explode but couldn't exercise it on Danny because she had inadvertently formed a deep emotional bond with him. She eventually gave up her life to save his, after they had kissed and she had told him that she loved him.
It seemed to be Danny's fate to become the beings he had initially hated. After adopting Kano's rôle as leader of Bad Company, Danny eventually merged with the 'Krool Heart', the telepathic hive-mind of the Krool, in order to save humanity from destruction. This made all the Krool look a bit like Danny Franks. He envisaged his multipotent reign over the galaxy as a benevolent dictatorship, but Kano wasn't so sure .
As Danny became progressively stranger, his rôle as the 'everyman' with whom the strip's readers would identify was slowly shed and passed on to his friend Mac, who spent most of the later episodes watching the odd things Danny got up to and asking questions so that they could be explained to the reader.
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