Savage Dragon #27

Name: Savage Dragon #27
Brand: Image
Availability: InStock

Apr 1996 · Image · 2.50 USD; 3.55 CAD

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“Will You Marry Me?”

★ 1st appearance — Frank Darling, Jr.★ 1st appearance — Max Damage

This April 1996 Image Comics issue poses a question right on its cover that's hard to ignore — "Will You Marry Me?" appears in a speech bubble beside a striking close-up of a woman with white hair, curly auburn locks, and bold lightning-bolt earrings, her expression unreadable as tiny green reflections of the Dragon himself glint in her eyes. Erik Larsen's cover art turns an intimate moment into something visually arresting, filling the entire frame with her face and leaving readers to wonder exactly what her answer will be. A wonderfully offbeat entry in Larsen's long-running creator-owned series.

writer, artist, inker Erik Larsen · colorist I. H. O. C. · colorist Reuben Rude · colorist Antonia Kohl · colorist Abel Mouton · colorist Bill Zindel · colorist Lea Rude · colorist John Zaia · letterer Chris Eliopoulos · colorist José Arenas · colorist In Color · cover Erik Larsen

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VERY FINE $3.99 Newsstand $11.01 SPAWN- & SAVAGE DRAGON- IMAGE- N° 27 b- FROM 1996- EDITIONS-STAR COMICS $11.41 Erik Larsen Savage dragon. Crisi d'identità (Vol. 27) (Paperback) (UK IMPORT) $22.06

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Published March 31, 1996 by Image Comics (Diamond ID: SAVAGE027); written, pencilled, and inked entirely by Erik Larsen, rated M for mature readers.
First appearance of the Brute Force team, including members Max Damage, Major Battle, and Moe Muscle — muscle-for-hire strongmen who show up to Chicago after the Gang War has already ended.
First in-continuity appearance of Frank Darling Jr., the infant son of Lt. Frank Darling Sr. and Mildred Darling, whose existence quietly establishes the generational thread that runs through the series.
Rapture (Sharona Jackson) proposes marriage to Dragon, who declines; she then reveals she is pregnant — the double-beat that launches the subplot leading directly to the birth of Malcolm Dragon, the series' eventual new protagonist.
Erik Larsen ran a public reader poll to determine Dragon's answer to the marriage proposal; fans voted for refusal, and Larsen honored the result in-story.
Chelsea Nirvana (taking on the mantle of the new Doctor Nirvana) and the Inhabiter kill the original Doctor Nirvana in this issue, closing out that villain's arc while establishing Chelsea as his successor.
CyberFace appears celebrating his freedom, with Officer Howard Niseman lamenting that the Chicago Police Department itself inadvertently enabled CyberFace's release — an ongoing subplot examining institutional failure.
This issue is the opening chapter of the 'A Talk with God' arc (issues #27–33), collected as Savage Dragon Volume 7 and described in publisher notes as one of the series' most dramatically and thematically ambitious stretches.