5/5 for Savage Dragon vol 1 by Erik LarsenWay back in 1992, when Erik Larsen and other popular young Marvel creators (including Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld and Marc Silvestri amongst others) left Marvel to start their own, independent / creator-owned comics publisher, Image Comics, he was able to choose any of his own personal creations to publish as his flagship comic. He chose his childhood creation, Savage Dragon.Savage Dragon is a fin-headed, two-toed, muscular green cop for Chicago...

I'm glad I finally got the chance to read Savage Dragon. It's fun, absurd, and absolutely a product of its time. The writing in this first volume can be cornball and a little too brisk, and the art isn't perfect, but it's fresh and a ton of fun to read. It's also deeply satisfying as the product of the one-man-army Erik Larsen has become. This is a silly, early Image book, but the history alone makes it worth the read.

If I were reading The Savage Dragon for the first time today, this might not be a 5-star review... But with hindsight and nostalgic feelings towards one of my nerdy teenage endeavors, it still kicks ass. The Dragon is super strong, has wolverine-like healing skills, pinpoint sharpshooter accuracy... And chooses to be a police officer. Not to mention his upper body is crazy out of proportion, he has that fin on his bald green head (though still has a hairy chest/legs) and is still a ladies man. P...

Το Savage Dragon είναι από τις αγαπημένες μου υπερηρωικες σειρές. Ήθελα λοιπόν, μετά από χρόνια, να ξαναπιάσω το από πού ξεκίνησε.Το στορυ ειναι απλό: ένας πράσινος άντρας ξυπνάει μέσα στις φλόγες με αμνησία (θα μάθουμε το πως κατέληξε έτσι χρόνια μετά) και κατατάσσεται στην αστυνομία για να τη βοηθήσει ενάντια σε υπερκακοποιους.Τα πρώτα τεύχη είναι ένα δυνατό origin story που έχει έναν περίεργο ρυθμό και δεν είναι λίγες οι φορές που σκάνε διάφορα άσχετα λογυδρια (πχ ένας μονόλογος κατά της αστυ...

Fascinating as a piece of history. I know Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon as one of the enduring titles that helped launch the Image revolution (along with Spawn, it continues to this day and is more than two hundred issues into its run), filled with all sorts of sensationalism in its early days but in at least the past decade having evolved into a bastion of classic superhero storytelling. This material represents Larsen's first published arc, a mini-series that preceded the ongoing series and sets...

Absolute peak pulp comics here. Muscular mutant wakes up with amnesia and agrees to help local police fight off superpowered villains, and violence and drama ensues. Gorgeous, detailed illustrations, over-the-top badassery.. Savage Dragon is a ton of fun, but that enjoyment is tempered by its rendering and treatment of women. Yikes.

One of my favourite comics as a kid. 30 years later it’s still ripe with 90s cheese, spandex and ponytails, but also still an incredibly fun read and a blast from the early Image past.

Here is the deal with Savage Dragon. Erik Larsen took a character that he created in 4th grade, and made a comic from him. The result is a bad ass character that has legit super powers and tears up his enemies. It's not terribly deep, but that's not what you want all the time. It's a fun place to escape, especially since Larsen has had control of the character since the first issue, and still writes and draws every issue. Win!

What if Frank Miller had only gone half-fascist?

Un pezzo di storia del fumetto americano. Rileggere queste storie con lo sguardo di oggi fa quasi tenerezza... Gli inizi di Dragon sono pieni di buchi di trama (voragini rende meglio) e non reggono il confronto coi colleghi (su tutti Spawn). Ma è Dragon, c’è un pezzo della mia pre-adolescenza in queste pagine e non si può essere più di tanto oggettivi dinnanzi all’accecante potere dell’imprinting ❤️

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Fantastic introduction and someone I could get used to reading.

Initial 4 issue mini-series. Loved this. Never read Savage Dragon before, this was great. I really enjoyed it.

For those who want to dig in the first outing of Larsen's definitive edition of his creation, The Dragon, this one has one liners, bullets flying, bare knuckle fighting, comic book nonesense of the super hero kind.It is also cool to get a glimpse on the process behind many of his characters, the ideas behind them and some sketches that show were he started with the conception of the universe, and where he ended.Cool cameos of other Image characters of the time, and some dated satire that might g...

Savage Dragon was my favourite comic when I was in my early teens. Now, It's a bit dated and silly at times, but still lots of fun to revisit and definitely far superior to most of the early image comics.

This review can also be found on my blog: https://graphicnovelty2.com/2017/10/0...A few weeks back, I dipped my toe in 1990’s nostalgia and reviewed Wild C.A.T.S. an early Image comic line written by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi. Walt, a blogging friend for the aptly named blog Comic Reviews by Walt, encouraged me to read Savage Dragon. Since I like to take advice from my like-minded blogging friends I picked up Baptism Of Fire, as he said it would be the best to start off with.Erik Larsen, the crea...

I'm not sure why I never read any Savage Dragon when it first came out. I didn't read a ton of Image stuff back then in general. I've been going through this whole Image read lately and this book was next on my list. I liked it. It was a fun read. It is a good beginning for the series.

The first volume of Savage Dragon is a bit rough around the edges, but having read the later volumes I know how awesome it becomes.Sure, there are some references that are dated and there are some things that are just way too on the nose, but despite that, it still manages to be fun and interesting.Overall, a great beginning of a series that obviously has a lot of potential.

In questi giorni sto traslocando, la sera ho bisogno di "comfort reading" e quindi sto rileggendo Savage Dragon nell'edizione pubblicata dall'editoriale Cosmo. Larsen sa come creare pagine potentissime, la storia è piena di piccole ingenuità che, negli ultimi anni avrebbero fatto incediare squadre di nerd alla ricerca di buchi di trama, ma che invece, in un fumetto ancora divertentissimo da leggere, dimostrano quanto poco noi lettori dovremmo avere voce in capitolo su quello che ci viene propost...

A bit disjointed, but an excellent origin story to a character simply trying to find himself. It asks a lot of questions, but does not provide all the answers. Needs more character development. However, what can one expect from the set-up for an ongoing series? The 90s style comic art fills one with nostalgia for the period. Not your typical superhero melodrama.