Strontium Dog

Johnny Alpha works as a Search/Destroy agent in a radioactive future where mutants face discrimination and bounty hunting is one of the few jobs open to them. His assignments provide chases and shootouts, but prejudice follows him between jobs.

Created by Wagner and Ezquerra for Starlord in 1978, the strip moved into 2000 AD; Grant became a major later writer.

The series uses the flexible structure of a western to revisit its central injustice. Each new contract can show a different corner of a society that treats mutants as disposable.

That tension gives the action a sharper purpose than a sequence of targets alone.

Radiation has altered bodies and social status, making mutation both an SF premise and a political category. Space travel broadens the frontier without removing hierarchy.

Futuristic equipment sits beside familiar western roles: bounty hunter, outlaw, partner and settlement.

Ezquerra’s rugged figures and expressive faces give the future a battered, lived-in look. Action reads clearly even when settings and creatures become strange.

The rough textures suit a story whose hero survives at society’s margins.