This article is a commentary track on Savage Dragon #186 and meant to be read by those who have already enjoyed the issue. If you haven’t, why not buy it here and check back with us?
Lots of stuff happened this week, so we’re going to just get right into it with Savage Dragon perpetrator Erik Larsen. Thanks as always to editor Gavin Higginbotham for contributing, and be on the lookout for an interview with him later this week about his backup feature in today’s issue.I love this cover–it reminds me of a Silver Age cover, something you’d see on SuperDickery or something.I like covers that tell a story–or part of one. I miss those. Yeah, this had something of DC vibe to it with its “who cares about you? I’ve got places to go” attitude.Man, you didn’t think about it so much when there was an OverLord around because it felt like eventually he’d win…but this is quite a sustained power vacuum in the Circle. Will Claw be definitively taking over for a while?Time will tell. I’m a bit hesitant to say one way or the other at this point. And just because we haven’t been told who’s in charge at this point–it doesn’t mean that there’s no leader. There is a guy running the show…we just haven’t seen who that is just yet. The group doesn’t function well with nobody in charge. Even if it’s a group of lieutenants–somebody’s calling the shots.
Man–even in the world of Savage Dragon, GI Joe: Retaliation needed an extra nine months to finish up their reshoots. In all seriousness, though, is it important to be timely even though you’re presumably writing these scripts months in advance and not really thinking of the GI Joe movie at the time?
Holy crap–the Tyrrus Combine appears to have made short work of the Krylans without Dragon there to help.
What was the idea behind taking those characters off the board?
When you juxtapose that gore against Claw’s attack on the Circle, it’s effective–but do you worry about confusing readers? Or has the old “Every issue is someone’s first” gone by the wayside these days?
The yellow menace crack just had to make it in. Love it.
You really wasted no time at all getting Daredevil and Claw face to face, huh?
With the last of the Krylans coming to repopulate and Claw on a rampage, it seems like a really bad time for Dragon to be in jail. Do they do work furloughs for that kind of thing?
With this issue we see a departure from hand lettering. Was this a tough decision? What were the factors in making it?
Powerhouse and Flash’s friendship continues to build. Could we possibly see a dual leadership of the VC? Both have led the group before. Could they succeed together where it may not have worked so well alone? By all accounts, Powerhouse DID used to lead the VC pretty well.
Was The Claw this badass back in the Golden Age? It makes you wonder how Daredevil ever could have killed him. Just how did he manage it in the past?
Angel and Daredevil finally resolve their long fixation on one another. And now they’re apart already! Is this “the end” of their budding relationship?
