Savage Dragon Archives, Vol. 3 by Erik LarsenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Savage Dragon Archives Volume 3 collects issues 51-75 of Savage Dragon.
My trip back in time to the early days of Savage Dragon and Image Comics continues. In this volume, Dragon's spirit is trapped in William Jonson's body, grows a new body, gets married, becomes a widower, gets a daughter, quits the SOS a couple times, and punches scores of bad guys.
Larsen's art evolves a bit more in this volume with less cross hatching and more confident lines. The storyline also keeps rocketing forward. There are no throwaway issues. Dragon and the gang are aging in real time here. Babies are born and lots of characters die or are depowered.
I've come to realize that Erik Larsen is the Image comics equivalent of Jack Kirby, both in the sheer number of characters he creates to the bombastic energy he brings to the table. It's a hard book to put down, as cliché as that may sound.
Savage Dragon Archives Volume 3 is a Bronze Age run in a Modern Age package. Four out of five stars.
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