 today on the show we're taking a look at the savage dragon number two from july 1993 the savage dragon versus teenage mutant ninja turtles so stay tuned hey guys welcome back to comic ed and tv where all geek culture collides if you're new to the channel don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos all right guys as i said today we're taking a look at the savage dragon number two from july 1993 the savage dragon versus the teenage mutant ninja turtles this is a bit deceiving uh as many verses and crossovers are the book is very thick okay pretty thick so it's very deceiving it's actually double-sided book three stories i believe three or four stories yeah three stories plus artwork and stuff uh pinups stuff like that this story here is actually very short it revolves around the dragon has been um temporarily transferred to new york city uh in order to hunt down some gargoyle creature that's been attacking older women and stuff like that and he gets attacked by the ninja turtles who mistake him for the gargoyle and anyway the five end up teaming up gargoyle attacks and they shatter the gargoyle that's pretty much it there is a side story of a superhero from detroit uh named dart being enlisted by the chicago police department to help out whenever dragon is gone uh savage dragon was creator writer pencilor anchor eric larson letterer chris elia polis coloris steve olif and ruben rude editor jane janny wong uh backstory uh the side story is star also by eric larson and all them uh and then we've got the publisher and all that and then the back we'll get into that later um the artwork isn't bad it's your typical image comics style it is image comics but also mirage so dart gets called in to help the chicago pd while dragon is gone and as i said here dragon's in new york he's been called to new york to help out help track down the gargoyle uh the ninja turtles mistake him for the gargoyle and attack and they don't really stand much of a chance um they he really he tosses them around like a bunch of rag dolls and it's pretty much just a two page fight then he uh tells him he's a police officer they realize he's the dragon and they team up and then gargoyle uh dragon spends most of time pretty much playing babysitter to them uh then the gargoyle attacks and they team up and fight the gargoyle dragon destroys the gargoyle uh dragon's ready to call it a day uh the ninja turtles aren't so sure they believe someone's been someone else was pulling the strings which obviously in the shadows right here you know they don't see her but she sees them and then in decal villain which is about three hours away from where i live uh we're about three hours south of decal but chicago and all them uh you get this kid who goes into a house finds people slaughtered and then a voice from in a closet or something like that so anyway the artwork was very nice the artwork was pretty cool but this is the story right here it's not very long at all um i mean i guess by today's standards even by today's standards you know the stories are getting shorter and shorter uh it's still pretty short by today's standards then we got some pinups here there's another crossover between savage dragon and teenage mutant ninja turtles part two catch the butt kick and gargoyle smash and conclusion on sale in september from mirage publishing so nice pinup work another nice pinup do you guys remember uh the savage dragon cartoon animated series that used to air on usa back in the 90s uh that's actually what introduced me to savage dragon tilt this down i had no clue whose savage dragon was until i saw that animated series it was pretty cool but like many of the usa network cartoon express animated series it wasn't long lived you know it was it aired alongside mortal combat defenders of the realm wildcats highlander the animated series problem child the animated series stuff like really good cartoons that didn't last long because they were on a typical network those aimed at kids uh one of the back stories was star uh it takes play this story takes place at the same time as savage dragon versus the ninja turtles because star mentions about every time dragon is out of town the vicious guys from the vicious circle always seem to strike when he's out of town kind of reminds me of spider man maybe a cross between spider man and the look of kane not kane from wwe but kane before he became scarlet spider the 90s always had a thing of guys in full full face masks with their hair showing i'm not sure why it was but it did kind of look cool anyway that was another pretty short story some more pinups here very nice got super patriot um i'm not sure who that guy is i don't remember if you know leave it in the comments below uh wasn't his name overlord dragons arch in me and yeah there's star there and then we have the alternate side uh it's pretty much this cover but with this dude ripping through it vanguard number zero i have not read it uh the art look the artwork looks pretty cool also by eric larson um not bad uh it's also got savage dragon in it so i may have to check it's also got dark hawk in it or maybe shadow hawk i'm sorry shadow hawk i may have to check it out uh the universal studio's monsters jason vorhees um few other cameos kind of reminds me of death lock or the death head death's head series when death's head would create robotic versions of earth's heroes to uh spar against i guess that's kind of what that seems like but it's not a very long story either they're there not long at all so overall the artwork on this was pretty good story wasn't bad it's really short uh also since there was a savage dragon ninja turtles crossover two i'm not sure if it's going to be a sequel or if it was a sequel or if they were going the route of like spawn batman batman spawn uh and all that where just a different version of the same story i guess you could say uh made by that like this is obviously an image comic uh whereas the other one could be uh is more likely a mirage comic standalone comics you know know like with uh the batman spawn the first one that was done by frank miller uh the one more popular one uh is actually set in the miller verse and it has the batman and spawn riding the lightning uh on the front cover that's one story the other story which takes place which was released about the same time uh maybe a little after uh is also the first meeting between the two uh in the image version batman was more violent in the dc version spawn was more violent so i'm not sure if that's what they're doing here but anyway there you have a guys the savage dragon number two savage dragon versus teenage mutant ninja turtles i'm shannon for com again tv the only place on youtube where all geek culture collides don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos take care my friends