Savage Dragon #77
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSavage Dragon #77 is a pivotal chapter in Erik Larsen's long-running alternate-reality storyline, delivering the first appearances of a future incarnation of WildStar, the villain Crustacean, and the enigmatic Blue Chunks — all within a devastated parallel Earth whose lore reshapes the series' cosmology for years to come. The issue also exemplifies a distinctive editorial philosophy unique to the Larsen era of Image: embedding fully realized back-up strips from other independent creators — Don Simpson's Megaton Man, Karl Hornell's Savage Dragonbert, and Chris Eliopoulos's Desperate Times — turning a single issue into a showcase for the broader independent comics ecosystem. As part of the ongoing series that Wikipedia notes is the longest-running full-color comic written and drawn entirely by a single creator, every issue contributes to a sustained, creator-owned narrative record with few peers in the medium.
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The issue was produced entirely by Erik Larsen — story and art — with lettering by Chris Eliopoulos and colors by Reuben Rude and Abel Mouton, following the standard creative configuration Larsen maintained through this period of the ongoing series. It shipped in July 2000 as the series was deep into a multi-issue arc in which Dragon's consciousness finds itself stranded in an alternate, post-invasion Earth, a thread that Wikipedia's series overview cites as anchoring several issues around this time. The variant cover — penciled by Jerry Ordway and inked by Al Gordon — reflects the collaborative spirit Image fostered with guest artists during this era, and the main story and back-ups were later collected in the Savage Dragon Archives trade paperback program.
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- Published July 2000 by Image Comics; titled 'Something Wild!!'; 22 pages of story and art by Erik Larsen.
- First appearance of a future version of WildStar, who travels back in time to prevent his younger self from suffering a past defeat.
- First appearance of Crustacean, a super-freak assassin who attacks Dragon early in the issue.
- First appearance of Blue Chunks, also debuting in this issue.
- Variant cover penciled by Jerry Ordway and inked by Al Gordon, alongside the standard Larsen cover.
- The issue contains three back-up strips: Megaton Man (written and drawn by Don Simpson, featuring Simon Phloog, Trent Phloog, and Kozmik Kat), Savage Dragonbert (by Karl Hornell), and Desperate Times (by Chris Eliopoulos).
- The alternate-Earth storyline established here reveals that Cosmic Cops, Martians, and Gods each took turns invading and devastating this parallel world, with Mighty Man dead, SuperPatriot a government pawn, and Dragon himself blamed for destroying half of Chicago.
- Reprinted in the Savage Dragon Archives trade paperback program (issue content confirmed in GCD's listing for Savage Dragon Archives #4).
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Reprinted in Savage Dragon #15 (2002), Superhelden #3 (2014), Superhelden #4 (2014), Savage Dragon Archives #4 (2015)
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