Origin

The Junkyard Dogs were a platoon of the US Army during the Vietnam War.

Creation

Junkyard Dogs first appeared in Geiger (2021) #6 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank.

Major Story Arcs

Junkyard Joe

The Dogs had recently lost a member of their platoon, nicknamed Buzzard. His replacement was a quiet solider named Joe, who proved to be a military robot that was sent to The Vietnam War to analyze the activity for President Nixon. He was outfitted with fake skin, which was shot off during their first attack, and was accepted by the other dogs pretty quickly.

Unfortunately, when they are attacked a second time, he is unable to save his new friends, except Muddy Davis, who would go on to create a comic strip about the robotic soldier he presumed died on the battlefield. It was this failure that influenced Nixon's decision to pull out of Vietnam.