YMMV / Strontium Dog

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Gordon Rennie in one of his monthly rant columns in the Judge Dredd Megazine speculated that there is much Ho Yay between Johnny and Wulf. Naturally, this has resulted in much backlash and even prompted John Wagner to specifically write a scene where Wulf gets laid just to debunk this. He also speculated that Johnny was a drug addict who was imagining his powers.
• Anvilicious: Early strips were pretty heavy-handed with the anti-mutant racism. It's easy to forget that these were written when the Apartheid regime in South Africa still existed.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • One of Johnny Alpha's allies, the Torso, bares an eerie resemblance to a mobile suit in Gundam.
  • Middenface writing in a Scottish Funetik Aksent is definitely funnier since an international bestseller was written the same way.
• I Am Not Shazam: The main character is called Johnny Alpha. Strontium Dog is a derogatory term for a Search/Destroy agent.
• Iron Woobie: Johnny is a rare example of a manly character who still manages to fall under this trope. Whether it's the sheer amount of crap that gets piled onto him or the way he stoically accepts the abuse and soldiers on; you can't help but feel like buying the poor man a beer and patting him on the back.
• Replacement Scrappy: Feral falls squarely into this in the Spinoff Strontium Dogs; he wasn't necessarily seen as a bad or hated character, but since he was filling in for the lead after Johnny Alpha had died, he had very big shoes to fill.
• Unintentional Period Piece: During "The Final Solution", while Middenface is writing a letter to Durham Red, "Sneck the poll tax" can be seen written down on one of the pages. This is a reference to Margaret Thatcher's controversial poll tax introduced in Scotland in 1989 and England and Wales in 1990, when the story was published. The poll tax was abolished just a year later.

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