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How Today's Savage Dragon Changed From Last Year's Free Comic Book Day Preview

Today's Savage Dragon finally joins the continuity established is 2015's Free Comic Book Day title Savage Dragon Legacy, as the plot catches up with the preview.

Except it has changed rather dramatically. In the back, Erik Larsen explains that he changed his mind, and wanted to keep the Savage Dragon's son, Malcolm Dragon out of the police for a little while longer, and deal with Dimension X and Dragon's new relationships first. Which means other things have happened in between that need to be reflected.

And what you get is a masterclass in taking one scene and making it mean something totally different, with dialogue switched from panel to panel, page to page.

In previous issues we had seen Malcom Dragon engaging in a foursome with then-girlfriend-now-wife, Angel and Tierra, all of whom became pregnant. And one who died as the dragonned-up foetus horrifically made its escape.

Some changes are small, reflecting that Malcolm is now married to Maxine, the FCBD preview…

…and the new version.  But some are more extreme, with chunks of text moved around, and scenes completely changing, from the original preview….

… to the new version.

The only reason you were sitting down is because that's where you were the first time this happened.


And the nature of foetus Dragons changes this scene and the implication for Malcolm and Maxine's child – and the remaining possibilities for Malcolm and Tierra's child – and the Dragon babies that Malcolm had just rescued in both this issue and the FCBD preview. Moving from this….

…to this…
…and the realisation of the implication of this for Dragon. Larsen does a masterful job at taking art in tended for one story and making it fit perfectly for another. The Wicked & The Divine got plaudits for doing that recently in a fashion that helped with Jamie McKelvie's schedule and was thematically relevant to the concept of sampling, I just thought this exercise was worth marking as well…

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. Who, tonight, will see Simon Spurrier & Emma Price signing their new Image comic Cry Havoc from 5:30-7pm.

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