An armored crime boss named Overlord has Chicago in an iron grip and super powered freaks are bleeding the town dry. A finheaded man is found in a burning field and joins the Chicago Police Department as... The Savage Dragon! Can the Dragon end Overlord's reign of terror?Savage Dragon Archives volume 1 contains issues 1-3 of the Savage Dragon miniseries and issues 1-21 of the regular series.Like a lot of guys my age, I was all over the Image books when they launched and Savage Dragon #1 was one

3 stars for the black & white art. Something like 21+ issues full of Dragon action. At times the stories were hard to follow. For me is was because of the black & white art, and no cover pages to separate the issues. Erik likes to jump around with characters and plot. Still, lots of mindless action and not too much deep thinking. Ah, the fun 90's. Still, thanks to Comixology Unlimited, I have access to 3 volumes of Savage Dragon Archives. I should be Dragoned out when I am done.

If there was a unifying theme amongst the set of books launched by Image’s founders in the early 1990s, it was a wanton disregard for the particulars of gross anatomy. Larsen isn’t quite Rob Liefeld-bad when it comes to depicting the human form (he does, by and large, at least believe that feet are a prerequisite for locomotion), but it appears that he modeled his female figures using a celery stalk, a couple of grapefruits, and a head of garlic. Despite being an obsessive comic reader at the ti...

I read the comic books Savage Dragon #1-24; and Jason Pearson's mini series - Blood & Guts #1-3. Larsen's written, drawn and inked(!) world of low numbers of meta-humans, focussed around Chicago police officer Savage Dragon (of unknown origin), mainly fighting the force of the Overlord and his Vicious Circle crime syndicate; this volume also sees the creation of Freak Force and the return of Mighty Man! 7 out of 12.

There's a lot to like about this book. Dragon's character design is fantastic. I especially liked that Larsen puts Dragon in a standard issue police uniform instead of a costume. It's obvious that most of his villain designs are from his childhood. They are goofy as hell and look like something straight out of a child's mind. His sexualized treatment of women, however, yikes! I don't even know how these girls stand up. The book is in black and white when it was originally in color. Some areas of...

***I read Savage Dragon #1 and #0 free on Comixology*** This was a fun couple issues, the origin in zero was actually the more interesting. The creator only ever wrote it 10 yrs after Image Comics launched, and shows who Savage Dragon was before he became Savage Dragon...the first issue seems to be similar to Spawn, but it's of the same era and for Todd MacFarlane's company so it makes sense...I am interested enough to want to keep going, as there is a TMNT crossover on the way!

Really nice collection of the beginning issues of this character. fun reads. Recommended

I'll give it 2.5 stars. Officer Dragon ultimately defeats Overlord. Chicago is in ruins. Dragon's love life is teetering towards collapse. I still think the storytelling's movement is jerky and the character development is minimalist. This volume contains 24 individual Funnybooks, and the series starts to improve towards the end.

Reprints Savage Dragon (Limited Series) #1-3 and Savage Dragon #1-22 (July 1992-September 1995). Meet the Dragon…a “freak” found without memory but possessing incredible strength and regeneration abilities. Fortunately, the Dragon is on our side and working for the Chicago Police Department in an attempt to stop the rising amount of freaks in the area. With as many naysayers as supporters, the Dragon has a tough road ahead of him as he battles enemies as a member of the force like the kingpin Ov...

Savage Dragon reminds me a lot of Cerebus; a comic that is trying to find itself in the initial run and flip-flops between a meditative seriousness and a ridiculous level of comedy. Savage Dragon seems to partially be a spoof of the superhero genre and likes to introduce heroes meant to caricature those of Marvel and DC as well as villains so ridiculous they wouldn't make it past a third graders artbook; and partially be a meditation on the role of superheroes and mutants in a more realistic set...

Big, stupid, 90's fun. Seriously, just a bunch of 90's all over the place. Of the Images books...this one has probably aged the best--only because it was full on taking the piss of the comics industry. Erik Larsen is a trickster and just a wee bit too wry for his own good. Is it high art? No, but it doesn't have the airs of that appeal anyway. The book and it's creator know exactly what it is and pulls it off decently. As for the low rating...it won't stay with me. Like the best empty calorie re...

This is some real 90's style comic book action fun. Savage Dragon borrows heavily from action film tropes as well as classic Marvel superhero stories. The character starts out as a cross between the Incredible Hulk and the Terminator, but gradually evolves into a unique character. Unlike your typical vigilante superhero, Dragon is actually a Chicago police officer, not as a secret identity but as a public identity of a super powered cop. This archive edition is a black and white reprint of the f...

Really fun superhero stuff. It's pretty fast paced and doesn't shy away from pushing the envelope. It's kind of weak as far as character motivation, but it's more about the fun of comics than the story, I think.Probably get more of these Archives.

This was one of the best series of the 1990s. In an era full of musclebound antiheroes, big guns, and scantily-clad heroines, this series had it all, and did it all correctly. Larsen is to be commended.

So, man, I love this series. I was also so confused the first time I saw it in color: I hadn't known about it until the Humble Bundle, which I bought for other series, and got hooked. But they gave us the black and white archives. I don't mind. The art, I think, stands up well in black and white, and I actually read so much of it in such a short time, I got used to the black and white aesthetic and ended up not liking the colored versions as much, in fact. Dragon is a green-skinned man with a fi...

First up, this collection itself suffers from all the deficits of '00s era collection. It's black-and-white to try and offer a low price point and it smushes all the issues together without covers or even issue dividers, robbing you of the natural story beats built into the individual issues. This is all particularly ridiculous now that one of the main publication venues for the collection is via online means.As for the comics themselves: it's a real pleasure to see this early era Image material...

This is a great action-packed riff on superheroes. A lot of the tried and true is present, but there are some fun quirks, for example, the main character fights crime as a cop, not a vigilante. Its still very much about settling problems with fists, but the comic is great, and Larsen's art is excellent. If you've never checked out Savage Dragon, but like supers, this is probably one that should be on your radar.

This of all the sort of original 90s Image era heroes has one of the more interesting hooks -- what if someone with the power level of a Superman became a cop instead of a superhero? It's big, boisterous, over the top, has more cameos than is even remotely necessary (I mean, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show up for an issue -- the Teenage freaking Mutant freaking Ninja Turtles). And yet...somehow is still worked for me. The characters inside aren't the most complex ever, but they're all comp...

This was a bit of a mess. Image in the 90s sure was a thing!This isn't all terrible. There were some funny lines, and some of the splash pages were great, over-the-top 90s excellence. But, there were also way too many "macho" moments that were too cringey. To say that characters ere undeveloped would be a compliment, because most are stereotypical caricatures at best. The smuttiness is way too overdone and nothing but fanboy fantasy drooling work.Also, the storytelling is very choppy. It was har...

Not as good as rememberedI saw this on comixology u limited and couldn't wait to read it. Unfortunately, my t3enage tastes mustve been waaaaaydifferent than my adult tastes. I think whati was most disappointed in was how disjointed the story seems and how long it took to get anywhere. About halfway through it was just more of the same after the same. I really enjoyed the artwork. But for me, story is king and its just not there. Better left in my memory.