{"id":6125,"date":"2020-09-30T17:43:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T00:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2020-09-30T17:43:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T00:43:29","slug":"good-grief-savage-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/good-grief-savage-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Grief, Savage Dragon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Savage Dragon<\/strong> is a superhero work that is a singular vision &#8211; creator Erik Larsen has done 252 issues so far. (There was one issue with a guest creative team as part of an everyone-do-each-other&#8217;s-book event at the publisher&#8230; but Erik, uncomfortable with that, went back and did a different issue with the same number so that he could have a consecutive run.) The latest issue, where he did pastiches of various comic strips within the Savage Dragon concept, proved popular enough that the issue is getting a second printing&#8230; and as such things are done these days, they are giving this reprint a different cover, to encourage hardcore collectors who already had the first printing to also buy the second.<\/p>\n<p>And this is the cover that second printing gets:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GoodGriefSavageDragon.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6126\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GoodGriefSavageDragon-194x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GoodGriefSavageDragon-194x300.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GoodGriefSavageDragon-663x1024.jpeg 663w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GoodGriefSavageDragon-768x1185.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GoodGriefSavageDragon.jpeg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which is, of course, a reference to this classic Fawcett cover:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GoodGriefCharlieBrownFawcett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6127\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GoodGriefCharlieBrownFawcett-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GoodGriefCharlieBrownFawcett-178x300.jpg 178w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GoodGriefCharlieBrownFawcett.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact your local comic book store and get them to order you a copy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savage Dragon is a superhero work that is a singular vision &#8211; creator Erik Larsen has done 252 issues so far. (There was one issue with a guest creative team as part of an everyone-do-each-other&#8217;s-book event at the publisher&#8230; but Erik, uncomfortable with that, went back and did a different &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}