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Created, written
and character designed by Steven Grant |
In the early '90s, I pitched DC a revamp of their little remembered Americommando character, but the editor shepherding the project left and it vanished into limbo. A couple years later I wanted to follow up my conspiracy thriller BADLANDS at Dark Horse Comics with something of a similar nature, so I brushed off the Americommando concept, renamed it PATRIOT X, and pitched it. Publisher Mike Richardson liked everything about it but the title, since, unknown to me, the company was prepping their X character, which I also ended up writing. So I changed the name to ENEMY (which I like better anyway), fate played the straight man, and until now we never looked back. It was a five issue mini-series, and I never really intended it as an ongoing series - I wanted to do a self-contained thriller - so in that regard its utter failure in the marketplace was a blessing in disguise. There are several reasons for the failure, including a collapsing comics market in which Dark Horse had already lost considerable ground and briefly weird internal politics at the company that have thankfully since passed, but it had unexpected if brief success in other areas: an ENEMY pilot was shot by Columbia/TriStar for Fox TV and was even on the network's fall schedule for a couple days before they ultimately decided to go with Chris Carter's follow-up to THE X-FILES, MILLENNIUM. Among other things, the pilot gave now well-known screenwriter David Goyer, who wrote the screenplay, his first go as a producer. | ||
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