While there will be a ton of attention paid to this week’s issue of Supreme, in which Erik Larsen draws the final Alan Moore script for the character before taking off in his own direction next month, Larsen’s also got some long-awaited stuff going on in his creator-owned Savage Dragon. An alien invasion that’s been in the hopper literally since before Savage Dragon was published as a monthly comic is nothing to sneeze at, and neither is taking that war to two fronts and putting Malcolm and Angel Dragon into some very…uncomfortable situations.As always, Erik Larsen and Savage Dragon superfan Gavin Higginbotham joined us to talk about the issue.Gavin Higginbotham: With this issue we get to see the true scale of the Tyrrus Combine’s invasion. There appears to be hundreds or maybe even thousands of ships. If each ship has a hundred or so aliens onboard… Has Earth really got any chance? The stakes have never been higher.Erik Larsen: We’ll see. It is pretty high stakes and I have done some pretty crazy stuff before. Don’t be too shocked if we end up with a ragtag group fleeing Earth to find a new home if things don’t work out. I’ve done crazier things.GH: The scale of the invasion also has allowed you to bring back a lot of familiar (and some not-so familiar) faces. Is it tough keeping track of who’s doing what in these stories? Was it a pain to draw everyone this issue?I don’t have every one of the hundreds of characters I’ve created dialed into my brain. There are shockingly few characters that I can draw without referencing previous appearances. In fact, a short while ago I thought I had a character dialed in but I found that I was so far off that I ended up redrawing the character for the trade. So many characters have died over the years that it really is a pain to keep track of who’s alive and who’s dead. I’ve created new characters at times because it was easier than doing research. Thank god for the Wiki!Russ Burlingame: You know, Erik–ironically we get to see Sara Pezzini here, and Tim Seeley told me in an interview for Champion! Magazine recently that he wanted to see her hang with Dragon now that she’s moved to Chicago. I guess he got his wish!Tim Seeley always gets what he wants. That’s what it’s like to be Tim Seeley. That’s why we all wish we were Tim Seeley.
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