Strontium Dog
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Sep 18, 2026
Mike HutchinsonHOST
And like...
Mike HutchinsonHOST
Given that we've got with Strontium Dog a sort of, you know, a rough and tumble sort of Western gunfight kind of a skirmish situation, it seemed surprising that the Judge Dredd one would kind of need to be just that rather than actually focusing on some element of the Judge Dredd kind of story.
Mike HutchinsonHOST
Yeah.
Glenn FordHOST
Yeah, and I think this is the thing that in many ways I don't envy of the Judge Dredd miniatures game because, like, Strontium Dogs is fundamentally a Western shootout in space.
Glenn FordHOST
And Western shootouts are a lovely thing to make a miniatures game about.
Glenn FordHOST
They sort of, they write themselves in many ways.
Mike HutchinsonHOST
It'd be like, I don't really need to engage with the jackboot satire if we're just doing some cops and robbers and this person's obviously got a dirty bomb or has stolen some meat processing equipment or something.
Mike HutchinsonHOST
Yeah.
DaveHOST
I can't think of too many people.
DaveHOST
Like, even Strontium Dog, Johnny Alpha went down to Dredd, you know? In a, in a bare knuckles fight.
DaveHOST
We've covered it before on the show.
DaveHOST
If you remember, I went panel by panel trying to see what kind of comeback Johnny Alpha could make, and in slow motion it looked no better.
DaveHOST
You know?
RichHOST
Nope.
46 MINS LATER
DaveHOST
They were pretty hard.
DaveHOST
Um, but some weren't.
Gregor HuttonGUEST
And so I ran a sci-fi game using a setting called The Stone Killers.
Gregor HuttonGUEST
So for anyone that knows 2000 AD, it's like Johnny Alpha and Strontium Dogs.
Gregor HuttonGUEST
And that setting was written on the back of a large amount of consumption of Strontium Dogs comics in the 90s.
Gregor HuttonGUEST
I ran, day one, I ran the scenario using Frenzy.
JayHOST
Um, Yeah, so did you then do more work with Zajas then? Did you ever go back to them and pitch them more stuff?
Leo HealyGUEST
Yeah, I did another piece almost immediately for them for their sister publication at the time that was the Strontium Dog-specific fanzine called Dog Breath.
Leo HealyGUEST
that um ended up weirdly exist i think it's it's finished now then andrew just does um just does our jazz um yeah but yeah i sent them something um almost like very soon after that first one got accepted and that one was quite a bit of a a change in terms of structure um that um i was working on with uh with david he sort of said i like the overall kind of idea of it and the characters and the concept but you've kind of focused in on the wrong thing here in terms of the story can you kind of pull back and focus on this bit instead which is the more sort of actual through line of it and sort of the main is that the moment
JayHOST
where you kind of flip your typewriter off and you say you don't understand you know or yeah because the temptation is you know because i've you know i've been working in design for a long time some people get very upset when you say actually maybe try this instead of that or you know or like some sort of uh they don't you know they get very personal about it you know i've i've learned over the years that like you know I mean, my feelings were destroyed about 20 or 30 years ago.
Paul FrenchHOST
Yeah.
Paul FrenchHOST
What are some of the other big ones? Well, there's a strontium dog, which is about a mutant bounty hunter.
Paul FrenchHOST
That's what I was thinking of.
Paul FrenchHOST
Yeah.
Mark FitzpatrickGUEST
animals? I think I was sort of born that way.
Mark FitzpatrickGUEST
So I had a predisposition towards... sort of being caring towards animals or or or or at least not um not wanting to see them in pain you know um and and there's nothing extraordinary about that i think i think a hell of a lot of people are born i would say most people are born like that some aren't obviously um what sort of set the sort of the thinking the cognitive thinking going i think was when i was reading um a particular comic when i was growing up called 2000 a.d which is still in prince it's uh it's a british comic um and most of its stories were sort of sci-fi uh battle type stories or sci-fi explorer types and themes and most of the protagonists in these stories were non-human animals and some were just made up aliens but they were not human yet they still had ambition and plans and goals and acted as though they were human or as as good as humans in terms so that they were talking and making plans and and this was good ones bad ones and and the humans in these stories were generally being represented um as the sort of baddies essentially um so i'm thinking of uh nemesis the warlock and strontium dog for for any listeners out there that are familiar with some of the main characters in this comic book um It was those guys, it was Nemesis, it was Strontium Dog, it was stuff like that.
Mark FitzpatrickGUEST
And it sort of introduced the notion that non-human animals were their own thing and they were there for their own reasons and they weren't put on Earth for us to use, as was the sort of typical Catholic thinking that I was immersed in.
Mark FitzpatrickGUEST
from the time I was baptized right so obviously I was brought up in Ireland very Catholic then it's changed an awful lot since but there was nothing coming from outside really other than these comics that was anything other than human supremacist really.
MichaelHOST
But... 2008, very important comic, from Britain, still going, it's got Judge Dredd, it's where Judge Dredd's from.
CraigHOST
It's the home of Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper, the ABC Warriors, Nemesis the Warlock.
MichaelHOST
Yes, and many more.
MichaelHOST
And this time they've got more stories in it than they usually do, because they used to do special issues that were to get kids into comics I'll
Tony EsmondHOST
lot yeah
Daniel ButcherHOST
Here's one to pressure test this, what's the sidekick theory? Strontium Dog and Wolf Sternhammer.
Tony EsmondHOST
Yeah, massively.
Daniel ButcherHOST
I mean, you're definitely a sidekick? Would they be equal compatriots?
Tony EsmondHOST
yeah for me it's not
Vince HuntHOST
yeah
Tony EsmondHOST
it's not it's not strontium dog and wolf sternhammer as a title i think which is the the actual reason but from us just looking at it from a story point of view are they equals i don't know johnny's kind of in charge isn't he yeah more powerful.
Tony EsmondHOST
You
JayHOST
We had a similar moment because...
David HallerGUEST
Another thing that happened that I think you remember was when you put in kind of a reference to Rogue and Strontium Dog.
David HallerGUEST
And I was like, this seems fan-thicky.
David HallerGUEST
And I went,