Savage Dragon #128

[MyPokerShirt]

Wanted issue, i believe. Big fan of Millar and Wanted and i have #1 of savage dragon so that just about qualifies me to buy this book Any news when its out/ any spoilers on how its going to work? thought Wanted was retired, but im glad for this swansong. should be fun.

 

[Elijya]

don't know of any Dragon fans on this board

My LCS owner actually got pissed at the book a long time ago and now he only orders for those few who subscribe to it and doesn't put any on the wall

 

[MyPokerShirt]

why is it only on issue 128? shouldnt it be older than this by now? i mean its been going since late 80s/ early 90s right?

 

[Elijya]

92, so 14 years, x 12 issues a year means that if it was 100% consistent it'd be at issue 168. But I'm sure Eric's missed plenty of months here and there. It's still the second longest running Image series after Spawn

 

[MyPokerShirt]

thanks a lot. related question: todd mcfarlene - money-making machine or honest-to-god comic book creator? when's the last time he came up with a new character? is he content living off of spawn and related merchandise?

 

[Elijya]

money making machine. Todd never really gave a **** about the industry. He was good at drawing (or at least, popular), but he never really had the passion, he never really loved comics. Baseball and Hockey were his true loves, but they weren't where his talents lay. He was smart enough to find a path that would lead him to be independently wealthy, but he probably ****ed over alot of people indirectly at the same time. But then maybe the events that came out of forming Image and the market crash, all that, were what the industry needed anyway.

But yeah, all he really did was get popular, create a cashcow, then put it on autopilot in the hands of other people and sat back and collected the cash