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Bad Planet is an American six-issue comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 limited series
Limited series
A limited series is a comic book series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....

 by Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane is an American actor known for his roles in the 1999 film Deep Blue Sea, the 2001 TV film 61*, the 2004 film The Punisher and the 2007 Stephen King adaptation The Mist...

 and Steve Niles
Steve Niles
Steve Niles is an American comic book author and novelist, known for works such as 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, Simon Dark, Mystery Society and Batman: Gotham County Line....

 that started in 2005
2005 in comics
- January :* January 3: Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit, dies at age 87.-April:*April 13:**DC Comics announces the discontinuation of its Humanoids and 2000 A.D. titles....

. It was one of the first comics produced under the writers' own Raw Studios imprint for Image Comics
Image Comics
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.

The story about an ancient meteorite containing destructive alien organisms crashing down on modern Earth. Another alien, a single warrior, appears on Earth to help prevent its destruction at the hands of the malevolent invaders.

Publication history

Co-creator/co-writer Thomas Jane was "hopped up on Vicodin
Vicodin
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" while recovering from a car accident when he had a series of fever dreams that contained "horrible alien deathspiders." From those dreams, he formed the idea for the comic book series, Bad Planet.

Jane befriended comic book artist Tim Bradstreet
Tim Bradstreet
Timothy "Tim" Bradstreet , is an artist and illustrator, best known for his work on comic books , book covers, movie posters, roleplaying games and trading cards.-Career:...

 while making the promotional posters for the Punisher film and pitched the idea to him. Bradstreet suggested he approach Bradstreet's long-time friend, Eisner Award
Eisner Award
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...

-nominated Steve Niles with the Bad Planet concept. Eventually the three met at a 2004 comic convention in Los Angeles
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. Niles, famous for his vampire
Vampire
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 series 30 Days of Night
30 Days of Night
30 Days of Night is a three-issue horror comic book mini-series written by Steve Niles, illustrated by Ben Templesmith, and published by IDW Publishing in 2002. All three parties co-own the property....

, quickly jumped on the idea and agreed to write. Concerned about the interior artwork in the comic, Jane again asked Bradstreet for advice. Bradstreet had been wanting an opportunity to work with Lewis LaRosa after seeing his work on the Punisher
Punisher
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 MAX
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 series, for which Bradstreet does the covers. LaRosa was planning to leave the comic industry, but was cajoled by Bradstreet and a signed headshot of Jane in the mail.

The team had originally conceived the series as being twelve parts, but it was later changed to six parts. Jane explained that this was because they split the series in half so the team could have a break in the project.

The second issue was cover dated January 2006 but then the series stalled due to LaRosa's illness. The other creators waited for him to recover but when he did he finally decided to leave the industry and it wasn't until mid-2007 that the third issue was released. James Daly
James Daly
James Daly was an American theater, film and television actor born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, who is perhaps best-known for his role as Dr...

 took over for issue #4 (November 2007) and issue #5 (April 2008) featured art from Daly, Bradstreet and Dave Kendall.

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