De Racine

De Racine is a character from the gritty British sci-fi strip Bad Company, which ran in 2000 AD. Set against a brutal alien war, Bad Company follows a ragtag squad of hardened soldiers — a band De Racine belongs to alongside fellow fighters like Kano and Sheeva.

Born in the pages of 2000 AD #549 in 1987, De Racine is a Copper Age creation from the legendary British anthology that gave the world some of comics' most distinctive voices — here shaped by the sharp pen of Alan Grant and the kinetic art of Carlos Ezquerra. Appearing across 2000 AD, Bad Company, and The Best of 2000 AD Monthly, De Racine keeps gritty, intense company alongside the likes of Protoid, Kano, and Sheeva — a roster that signals the kind of hard-edged, imaginative storytelling Fleetway Publications did so brilliantly through the late eighties and into the nineties. With fifteen recorded appearances spread across nearly a decade, this is a character rooted in a genuinely exciting era of British comics, one that rewards the curious collector willing to dig into the rich, underappreciated corners of 2000 AD's sprawling universe.