The Warheads were mercenaries employed by the nefarious and Faustian Mys-Tech organisation to capture advanced technology or mystical artifacts from alien worlds, time periods, or other dimensions.
Paul Neary was instrumental in creating the whole Mys-Tech concept for Marvel UK, including the original Warheads outline.
The characters in Warheads were first visualised by artist Gary Erskine with the first scripts for the strips provided by Nick Vince, followed by John Freeman and Craig Houston, who is now a computer game scriptwriter whose credits include Call of Duty 3.
Unlike most of the other Marvel UK titles tied into the Mys-Tech concept, the Warheads were not enemies of Mys-Tech—instead, they were portrayed as expendable soldiers employed by a callous corporation.
Other Warheads artists included Simon Coleby, Dave Taylor, Stuart Jennett, and Charlie Adlard.
Mark Harrison painted an unpublished spin-off, called Loose Cannons, available online,[1] about the all-female Virago Troop (Holly, Elan, Nix (who is killed and replaced with the genetically enhanced Lamia, a creation of Dr. Oonagh Mullarkey), team psychic Syster Sphynx, and team leader Bodecia "Bo" Kildare) and provided Warheads several covers for Overkill.
Leona is distressed when it seems one of her newfound friends vanishes and dies but he turns up alive, as Iron Man had been impersonating him.
The team were key players when Mys-Tech were defeated in the Battle of London Bridge - the organisation had tried to buy off Mephisto by sending all of Britain to Hell, and Liger's rebel Warheads went into the infernal realm to shut down the portal.
's European Division head Keller brought Liger back in from the cold and tasked him to dig up intelligence.
[5] The comic focused on the Kether Troop led by Colonel Tigon Liger, whose most notable feature was prominent facial scarring from being slashed by Wolverine.
He carried a very large semi-intelligent gun named Clementine that, while helpful to the troop, sometimes endangered them when Liger's orders were unclear.
The membership varied over the course of the series, with frequent inclusion of trainee characters, new recruits, or "loaner" members from other Troops, who usually died in the course of action (like redshirts on Star Trek).