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Hello, im looking to track down a comic or graphic novel that I read several years ago, with excellent artwork about Friday of the gentic infantry, it may have been in a Heavy Metal or Epic Magazine type format as well, it showed friday being made, the training, and then the battle in which the infantry gets wiped out, he then goes to the company and kills the exec that set the whole thing in motion ty for any help you can give.

It wasn't this was it?

Link: Heavy Metal: War Machine

I think thats the one he's after Adventurer, the best of the Rouge re-boots which i actually enjoy more than the older RT stuff.
It was also re-printed in a Best of 2000AD at some time.

CU Radbacker

Appears Chris Weston is involved.

Extract from the Guardian:
This week Mother launches its latest venture, and is saying it isn't a one-off stunt. On Wednesday, copies of Time Out, London's weekly listings magazine, will include a stand-alone comic or graphic novel called Four Feet from A Rat, published by Mother Comics.

Four Feet has four stories featuring killer zombie night-bus drivers, post-apocalypse aliens picking through the detritus of a long-dead human society, a gangster pigeon - Don Pigeone - and an anti-consumerist revolution where the vicious global hegemony of brands such as Starbucks and McDonald's inspire an underground movement.

Which raises the obvious question - what is an advertising agency doing launching a comic with a strong line in despair and No Logo imagery? "I don't think we're the Naomi Klein of adland," said Mother partner Andy Med. "But our clients recognise that we can't create stuff in a bubble. Coca-Cola sponsors the World Cup but they had no problem with the hooligan model."

The deal came about, Med explained, as the agency began offering barter deals to clients it liked but which could not afford its services. Penguin, for instance, paid in books and the Mother foyer boasts a complete set of the Penguin classics.

With Time Out, the agency asked to be paid in blank pages - something that was almost free for Time Out. Two years into their relationship, the deal had accrued sufficient space for the launch of Four Feet from A Rat, a quarterly title named after the London legend that at any one moment you are no more than four feet from a rat.

"We treated it like any creative project - had teams working on possible story lines, worked up one that could be serialised and then took them to our partner Mam Tor, who do graphic novels, and had them select the best ones to draw," Med said. "All ad people have a script or a novel or whatever burning inside them. This helped bring some of it out."

None of Mother's brands feature in the comic, and indeed there are no adverts, apart from spoof branding for Sucks Coffee and Tesda. "It's about us providing content - something we've always said we need to do," added Med. "How can we sit in front of a client asking them to do bold work if we're not prepared to take a risk?"

Either way, the resulting comic, according to the journalist and comics expert Will Hodgkinson, shows the combination of realism and symbols of the fantastic that marked the 1980s graphic novel revolution with titles such as Hellraiser and Sandman.

Link: Westonblog

hmmmmm that cover looks like somthing I have seen before, that just may be what im after, ty ty for the help :)

I just got it today in the mail, got it off ebay, that was the issue and story i was thinking of, fantastic story and great art.