[QUOTE]The Savage Dragon is a long-running comic book by Erik Larsen, published by Image Comics since 1993. Along with Spawn, it is one of the two original Image titles still being published, and it is the only one still written and drawn by its creator.

The Savage Dragon tells the life story of reluctant superhero and police officer "the Dragon", who is super-strong, extremely durable, and able to regenerate even after extremely serious injury. He fights crimes involving mutant "superfreaks". The Dragon's past is unknown, since his earliest memory is awakening in a burning field in Chicago. He, like many of the series' characters, was created by Larsen in elementary school. The series is unique among superhero comics for its "real-time" storytelling; each month's issue represents roughly a month in the life of the Dragon.
According to Larsen, the series is aimed at "older Marvel readers who are about ready to throw in the towel on comics altogether. It's the missing link between Marvel and Vertigo. More mature than Marvel—less pretentious than Vertigo. The kind of comics I want to read. This book is REALLY self-indulgent." Some have criticised the Savage Dragon as merely being Marvel's Hulk with a fin.[/QUOTE]