It’s less than a month until the release of Savage Dragon #192, the issue in which everything is going to change.It seems likely, from previous interviews creator Erik Larsen has given and from the cover of the issue coming out this month, that the title character will actually die. Even if he doesn’t, we know that the series will officially be handed over to his son, Malcolm, who has been slowly built up as the lead in this series for nearly four years now, since his father’s apparent death in Savage Dragon #150.After Dragon came back, though (long story—isn’t it always?), he took the spotlight back somewhat—including fulfilling the decades-in-the-making promise to fight a war that’s been teased since his earliest appearances with Vanguard. Along the way, he spent some time in space, leading his people (along the way he finally learned his own origin and reconnected with the race who had abandoned him back when he was a ruthless dictator, a life that had been removed from his brain before he was deposited on earth, where he was found in that fiery first page.But it seems that bringing Dragon back into the title was never intended as a long-term solution and that there’s a good chance Larsen might finally kill the character he created in elementary school in order to remove the temptation to keep telling more stories around him.So—with Dragon’s last issue as the official lead of the series coming soon, what issues should you read to get a basic overview of the Life and Times of Savage Dragon? ComicBook.com spoke with Larsen and series editor Gavin Higginbotham (who, as ever, did most of the work) and came up with a list…
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