Dart Attack Q&A: Erik Larsen on Savage Dragon #149
With the aggressive ad campaign that Image has mounted over the course of the past month or more, every reader with an even passing interest in Erik Larsen’s long-running, creator-owned series Savage Dragon knows that his most feared, powerful and long-dead villain, Overlord, will return in some form in Savage Dragon #150. Recent interviews by Larsen have suggested that the new Overlord will be much more powerful, unstable and generally dangerous than the old one was, and that there were no guarantees that Savage Dragon himself will walk out alive by the time the story arc was finished. So what do you, as a creator, do to set yourself up for the most highly-anticipated issue in some time (with the possible exception of the Obama issue, of course, but that was its own special circumstance)?
You and I are one of the few, Scribe.
Savage Dragon is, without a doubt, one of my all time favorites. Erik larsen is just so underrated that it makes me want to scream.
I even have the SD statue:
The pictures on my wall are actual paintings done by an inmate when I was a correctional officer for the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice. This inmate, or so I was told by him, had absolutely no art skills whatsoever when he was first incarcerated. Then over the span of a decade, he became quite a fine artist. He only charged me $30 per picture to make them in the unit's craft shop.
I stopped buying comics around 2002, because I was in the U.S. Army at the time and since we were deployed to Kuwait and Iraq after the events of September 11th, I just didnt have the time to buy anymore.
I have all of the issues of Dragon up to, about, number 104. I even have the original Savage Dragon 1/2 from Wizard magazine, and Megaton #1, the very first appearance of Savage Dragon and Vanguard.
Speaking of Vanguard, I have all of the Larsen spin-offs such as Freak Force, Superpatriot (including Superpatriot's appearances in Rob Liefeld's Youngblood: Strikefile), Deadly Duo, Vanguard, Desperate Times, and the numerous Dragon story arcs like Blood & Guts and Red Horizon.
I just wish that the cheese-tastic Savage Dragon animated series would hurry up and come to DVD.
I can't say I've read more than 15 issues of Savage Dragon but I've enjoyed most of what I've read. Last issue I read
Spoiler:.
his son was kidnapped and one of the thugs he'd smashed had accidentally become a carnivorous monster which proceeded to eat SD himself while he was recovering in a hospital, and got assimilated by Savage Dragon after
Good books but they're not owned by DC or Marvel so not too many comic fans will read them.
