The Dragon Archives #1

Standing tall amid a field of rubble and shattered buildings, the fin-headed, massively muscled Savage Dragon dominates this 1998 Image collection's cover — his shirt torn open, fists clenched, and expression set with the kind of quiet menace that says the wreckage around him is very much someone else's fault. Erik Larsen's cover art captures Dragon at his most imposing, a lone red flower somehow blooming in the destruction at his feet adding a striking, almost defiant touch. A great entry point into the early Dragon material collected here under the title "Revenge!