Strontium Dog

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Strontium Dog is a British science fiction comic from the multiverse of 2000AD, the same magazine best known on /tg/ as the birthplace of Judge Dredd. Set in the 22nd century, Strontium Dog revolves around the concept of a futuristic Earth that, despite building an interstellar community, was ravaged on its own soil by a nuclear world war. This led to a corresponding rise in mutant births, which in turn led to the rise of politicians who exploited anti-mutant sentiments for political power. This ultimately led to mutants being so oppressed that they rose up in revelation, fighting a bloody battle against humanity in hopes of winning equality. It... largely failed. Now the only hope mutants have for power is to join the Search/Destroy Agency, a bounty-hunting guild with access to advanced technology that goes after the worst criminals from across space, time and reality. The comic focuses on the adventures of two "Strontium Dogs"; Johnny Alpha, whose mutated eyes grant him x-ray vision and mind-reading abilities, and Wulf Sternhammer, a Viking accidentally shanghaied into the future who decided he'd rather stay.

Connections to Judge Dredd

The rough similarities between the mutants of both Strontium Dog and Judge Dredd have led to speculation that their two settings may be connected somehow, and in fact there are three comic stories (Top Dogs and By Private Contract, both written by John Wagner, and Judgement Day by Garth Ennis) and a Big Finish audio book "Pre-Emptive Revenge" in which Johnny Alpha travels to Mega-City One and either clashes or works with Dredd. So it's possible that Johnny Alpha's world is the future of Dredd's... but that runs into problems because of how drastic the difference is. So it might be either a possible future or just a parallel dimension.

Even the RPG is forced to shrug its hands, with the "Worlds of 2000AD" splatbook "The Judge Child" outright saying "fucked if we know what the answer is, but the Strontium Dogs can travel through time and across dimensions, so it doesn't really matter much".

RPG

The roleplaying game "Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000AD" has a splatbook dedicated to playing Strontium Dogs, called, simply, "Strontium Dog". It's meant to be used in conjunction with the Worlds of 2000AD Corebook, although the Cursed Earth splatbook and its enhanced rules for mutie PCs is also handy.

Playable races are Muties, Norms, the Strix (a weirdly identical clan of mutant bounty hunters), Robots, and two alien races; the metal-eating, heart-attack-prone and timid Gronks and the killer baboon-like Howlers.