Dragon Appreciation: Which are your favorite Dragon comic series?

[DM-Rocco]

I think it was dragon's mirth that I liked the best. Just a simple one picture and caption cartoon in each of the earlier magazine. Who can forget the picture of a crat with a slit in the side and a sign hanging from the crat, "insert sword here for 500 xp".

I enjoyed snarfquest as far as full strips go, but order of the stick or certainly a very close second.

 

[Glyfair]

Also, you're missing one- Libram X, I think was the name.

I went by this page. It was late and I think I scanned down a row and thought it only lasted a few issues.

What, no Pinsome?

That page lists it as only lasting 3 issues.

For the record, the comics I don't remember are Flint and Steel, Swordplay and Twilight Empire (and vaguely remember Yamara). Libram X I don't remember, either (I guess it's tpp late in the process for a mod to add it). You can probably tell what era I didn't read Dragon.

I think it was dragon's mirth that I liked the best. Just a simple one picture and caption cartoon in each of the earlier magazine. Who can forget the picture of a crat with a slit in the side and a sign hanging from the crat, "insert sword here for 500 xp"

The non-series strip artists I love I can never remember his name. He's the guy who did a bunch of early Dragon comics and a bunch in the DMG. The wizard & fighter with mouse nose & whisker disguises comes to mind.

 

[Vocenoctum]

I think it was dragon's mirth that I liked the best. Just a simple one picture and caption cartoon in each of the earlier magazine. Who can forget the picture of a crat with a slit in the side and a sign hanging from the crat, "insert sword here for 500 xp".

I remember that one, but it was "No Wight Turns" that has always stuck in my head for one-panels.

Plus the old lymerics, I only really remember;
There was once a dwarf named Fritz
(who/he) was burned right where he sits
that happens they say
when you get in the way
of a dragon, just as he spits.


New stuff, only Zogonia/Mt Zogon are really good for me, old stuff I read Snarfquest and Wormy continiously. (Handstamped post office sticks out as great fun, but "don't you have anything smaller" with the coin...)

Never liked Fineous, OotS had worn out long before it made it in the magazine, Kovalacs stuff is (for me) as highly overrated as the anti-funny-ness of Penny Arcade...

 

[freyar]

Well, I've only read a few of the most recent issues, so my vote goes to OotS. I suspect that's because I can "relate" to it more due to my online reading of it. However, I do find the artwork more appealing in OotS than many of the other strips. I think I may be missing something with Zogonia, though, since I don't like it very much but did enjoy Mt. Zogon in Dungeon quite a bit.

Edit: From the picture of Growf! in the recent Dragon top 10 wanted list, I guess I would've liked Phil and Dixie, too.

 

[Mycanid]

I wonder if it's because the online OotS has a storyline, whereas the ones that run in Dragon are fundamentally non-canon one-offs, sort of like the very early strips in the series?

Maybe so kenobi, maybe so. I like developing storylines in general, no matter what the genre, more than "cameos", as you put it. A happy exception to this was Calvin and Hobbes - IT could get away brilliantly with cameos, but I still preferred the "running gag" stories in the strip.

Dunno about Darkwing Duck, but I do know that Elmore got very angry with George Lucas for, in Elmore's mind, ripping off Snarf with Jar Jar Binks.

Wha? [Tries to remember Jar Jar and then Snarf]

Umm ... I guess I could see the parallel. Kinda. Hmm. :\

 

[Nail]

OotS....even though I never read it in Dragon.

 

[TarionzCousin]

and, my absolute favorite:

wormy- fantastic humor, action, poetry, mystery, and magic.

messy

Really? Nice icon, btw.


I voted for a bunch, but my favorite was Fineous Fingers. I had the print comic for many years, until I gave it to friends to store for me along with 100+ old Dragon magazines. They left them outside in the rain.

I would have voted for Downer too, if I could figure out what's going on. I don't have a subscription to Dungeon, so I guess I should buy the comic.

 

[kenobi65]

Wha? [Tries to remember Jar Jar and then Snarf]

Umm ... I guess I could see the parallel. Kinda. Hmm. :\

Exactly. There's a vague physical resemblence (esp. in the ears, maybe in the long snout, though they're shaped differently), and possibly in the fact that both are bumbling characters, though I think Snarf is less of a naif than Jar Jar is.

Still, I remember reading a posting from Larry on his site in which he was pretty full of crankiness, feeling he'd been completely ripped off.

 

[Roadkill101]

Wormy and Snarfquest are the only two to get my vote. Except for picking up an oddball Dragon (less than ten issues), I never read the magazine, with the exception of a one year subscription which was gift from a relative.
Wormy and Snarfquest are the only comic series names which still linger in my head where I can still picture the strips. I can picture Yamara as well, but I never cared much for it.
The rest don't ring much of a bell, except Oots, which I know from here at ENWorld, not Dragon.

 

[WayneLigon]

Zogonia, Wormy, and Phil & Dixie are my faves. I never really thought of my other favorites as 'Dragon' comics: Order of the Stick, Nodwick, KotDT, and Dork Tower I think of more as webcomics or stand-alone print comics rather than iconic 'Dragon' material.