CHARACTER PROFILES:

Johnny Alpha

Johnny Alpha is an interplanetary bounty hunter with the Galactic Crime Commission's Search/Destroy Agents, nicknamed Strontium Dogs. He is also a mutant whose eyes emit alpha waves. These enable him to see through solid objects and break the will of his quarry. Alpha is the best of the Strontium Dogs, feared across the galaxy by fugitives and criminals.

Weapons/Equipment:

• Westinghouse variable-cartridge blaster - A powerful and adaptable handgun that uses small, variable function cartridges, a bullet sized, self-contained missile consisting of a specialist warhead and a solid fuel propellant.
  
  
• Electronux - 22nd Century equivalent of knuckle-dusters, this hand-held device delivers a charge of 20,000 volts when it strikes an opponent.
  
  
• Time Drogue - temporarily turns back time within a limited range, enabling Alpha to resurrect a dead suspect just long enough for questioning.
  
  
• Beam Polariser - thrown into the air, this device draws the energy beams from an enemy's blaster like a magnet.
  
  
• Short-Range Teleporter - does what it says on the tin.

Durham Red

Durham Red was born and raised in the Milton Keynes ghetto for mutants. She escaped by becoming a bounty hunter, using her unique mutation of vampirism to bring fugitives to justice.

Weapons:

Borstin Auto-Chetter - Durham's antique handgun, from which each shot fires a million tightly wound barbs of monofilament titanium wire.

Wulf Sternhammer

Wulf Sternhammer was a viking warrior back in the heyday of the Norse raiders. He encountered Johnny Alpha who had come back in time in pursuit of Max Bubba and his gang, a ruthless band of mutant killers. When Johnny saved his life, Wulf swore to repay him, and became his life long friend. Accidentally brought back to Johnny's own time, Wulf became his partner, one of the few "norms" to do the job of a Search / Destroy Agent. They worked together for several years, until one day Max Bubba broke out and came back for revenge. Catching the two unawares, he took them captive and staked them out to die in the desert heat. Wulf broke free and took out some of Bubba's gang before he was gunned down in a hail of bullets.

Weapons:

• Der Happy Stick - an enormous warhammer, used for subduing bounties who resist arrest!
  

Middenface McNulty

Raised in a ghetto/concentration camp called 'Shitehill', Archibald 'Middenface' McNulty became one of the leaders of the rebel mutant army during the mutant uprisings. One of only a few of the generals to survive the war, he joined his fellow fighters in exile, and became a Strontium Dog. Middenface's mutation is purely cosmetic. But he's very good at dishing out laldy when he has to.

The Gronk

A timid metal-eating alien medic from Blas, way out in the Gallego system. The Gronk has proven invaluable to Johnny & Wulf, having saved their lives on more than one occasion.

Gronks have very weak hearts, and are liable to suffer heart attacks at the slightest hint of excitement or danger.

Wulf Sternhammer wears the pelt of The Gronk's brother Gloppus, as a mark of respect to the elder Gronk, who died shortly after rescuing Johnny & Wulf from prison in order to foil a priate raid on the astroliner "Sondheim". Gronks believe that if someone dear to them wears their skin, then a little bit of them lives on after death!