Savage Dragon #188

Savage Dragon #188 delivers a visceral urban clash right on its cover, where a massive, snarling dragon-headed creature looms over a crumbling cityscape, claws outstretched, while two smaller fighters — one red, one green-skinned — scramble into the fray amid flying debris. Erik Larsen's pencils and inks give the scene a kinetic, old-school energy that feels like a love letter to the bombastic superhero comics of decades past. With "Toastess Pie Diplomacy" as the story's title, this 2013 Image Comics entry makes clear that Larsen's long-running series hasn't lost a step when it comes to staging a genuinely exciting confrontation.