Barbaric

Few characters embody the wild, anything-goes spirit of early Image Comics quite like Barbaric, who burst onto the scene in 1993 courtesy of Erik Larsen's boundary-pushing Savage Dragon. A fixture of that gloriously chaotic Copper/Modern Age, Barbaric has proven no flash in the pan — 147 catalog appearances spanning over three decades, with seven of those recognized as key collector issues, speak to a character who genuinely stuck. Their adventures stretch across Savage Dragon, Freak Force, and even the delirious crossover territory of Mars Attacks Image, keeping company with heavyweights like SuperPatriot, Dragon, and Dart along the way. If you love the raw, creator-owned energy that made Image a revolution, Barbaric is exactly the kind of deep-cut discovery worth chasing down.