After their transformation, the squad continue to work as a team, now employed by a secret new European defense organization, S.T.O.R.M.
Along with Gun Runner and Genetix, Gene Dogs was one of three limited series launched together under the 'Gene Pool' banner and "linked by a common thread - genetic mutation".
[1] As part of this promotion, the first issue of each series was shipped polybagged with collectable "Gene Cards" profiling the characters.
Writer John Freeman has since commented that Gene Dogs was "intended to be a British X-Men"[2] The soldiers who would come to be called the Gene Dogs were originally part of an elite counter-terrorist squad called Team Omega.
In order to save their lives, they were spliced with animal DNA, as well as receiving bio-wetware chips in the cerebral cortex to enhance their abilities.