Strontium Dog: The Early Cases

Strontium Dog

by John Wagner, Alan Grant

Great condition, DC Comics published version

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

188 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2005

About the author

John Wagner is a comics writer who was born in Pennsylvania in 1949 and moved to Scotland as a boy. Alongside Pat Mills, Wagner was responsible for revitalising British boys' comics in the 1970s, and has continued to be a leading light in British comics ever since. He is best known for his work on 2000 AD, for which he created Judge Dredd. He is noted for his taut, violent thrillers and his black humour. Among his pseudonyms are The best known are John Howard, T.B. Grover, Mike Stott, Keef Ripley, Rick Clark and Brian Skuter. (Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, it was highly inventive. I generally liked the stories and the art. I didn't care as much for the comic relief stuff. The klutzy little character known as the Gronk, who kept saying "oh my poor heartses," just got irritating after a while. I liked the main hero's sidekick, Wulf, but his constant use of the term "cucumber" also got kind of old. Another problem was that in a number of places the panels crossed the division between pages so that you couldn't read or see the whole panel. I think I missed a few things I'd like to have been able to read. Overall, though I was entertained.

[Mouse · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is purely nuts!!!
I’ve recently been going back through some of the the old 2000AD comics like Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper. I never read Strontium because it just never really appealed to me... but man was I missing out!
I honestly cannot remember all the craziness that happened in this book because there’s just too much, but I can tell you that they went to Hell, fought Death and the 4 Horsemen, then they ended up back in time and captured Hitler. Keep in mind that this whole time it’s a mutant bounty hunter that can read minds, see through walls, and other weird stuff and his best friends are a time displaced Viking and a weird Snork looking alien that talks like Jar Jar Binks.. waaay before there ever was a Jar Jar Binks!

These stories are like 40+ years old and they’re wacky, cliched, full of machismo, and terrible... but terrible in that good way! Fun terrible! It’s like watching an old Stallone action movie!

Surprisingly there’s a lot of humor in this book and I lost count of how many times the word cucumber was said!!! 🥒

[Benjamin Richards · Rating 4 out of 5]

Early 2000AD stuff is close to my heart, so a lot of nostalgia credit here. The Strontium Dogs story is clichéd to the hilt, I mean come on, Hell, Hitler and red-necks! Wulf Sternhammer and The Gronk are limited almost entirely to their catchphrases so offer little in the way of support, personally I didn't mind the 'cucumber' fetish! So yes, good solid early 2000AD stock, amazing really that it was created in 1979. A happy, welcome addition to my collection of graphic novels.