Savage Fincast

Take a trip with us all the way back to the beginning in this very special Savage FINcast Retro, where Raven, Jim, and Craig take a look at the facsimile editions of Graphic Fantasy 01 & 02 to experience the thrills of Prism, Iron Hawk, and Domestic Tranquility. Oh and some guy named The Dragon. … Continue reading

With a might crack of thunder, Thor’s back and so is the Savage FINcast. Craig, Jim, & Raven discuss the finer points of chicken head based romance, speculate about the dream of Savage Dragon comics every week, apologize way too much, argue about just what a meme is, beat their head against the table trying … Continue reading

Evil Doppelgangers run amok in the latest Savage FINcast Retro. Raven, Craig, and Jim are introduced to the Throwaways, easily the most interesting and memorable villains ever to grace a comic book. And then some other, more actually cool, stuff happens. TIMESTAMPS02:02 – Freak Force 03 (Review)37:53 – Freak Force 04 (Review)

Its all about blades and bullets in the latest episode of the Savage FINcast Retro. Hosts Raven, Craig, and Jim take a look back at Savage Dragon 08 and 09 of the on-going series to see how Dragon got out of his particular impalement pickle. TIMESTAMPS06:06 – Savage Dragon 08 (Review)34:23 – Savage Dragon 09 … Continue reading

There’s blood in the water in the latest episode of the Savage FINcast. Hosts Craig, Jim & Raven take a look at the revelations of Savage Dragon 256. Who is the toothy creature the cover proclaims is back from the dead? Jim rants about blood. Craig rants about faceless mooks. Raven… does Raven things. All … Continue reading

Winter is coming, so lets talk insistently about Canadian super-heroes! Craig, Raven, & Jim take a look at Savage Dragon 255, where nothing of significance or importance happens. No sir. No shocking deaths, or brutal revelations, or ominous foreshadowing here. This surely will not go down as one of the most pivotal issues of Savage … Continue reading

Pranks and japery abound in the latest episode of the Savage FINcast. Craig, Jim, & Raven honk the clown horn at Savage Dragon 254 where the fun ever stops. The crew marvels at Canada’s newest super-hero, then marvels at the return of Shart and her baby Billy, and then just can not stop marveling as … Continue reading

The Savage FINcast rolls on with another pulse pounding episode. Hosts, Craig, Jim, & Raven take a look back at how the FINcast was started and then take a sniff at Savage Dragon 253 as the deadly Dart and her Vicious Circle make their move with Malcolm Dragon caught in the middle. All that and … Continue reading

This is it! The big one! They said it was impossible! One-Hundred Episodes of the Savage FINcast! And what better way to celebrate then to talk to all the people who made this Podcast possible. Host regulars, Craig, Jim, & Raven are joined by all our wonderful former and guest co-hosts for a massive chit-chat. … Continue reading

Lo! There shall come… a couple endings. The Savage FINcast comes to the end of a journey several years in the making as TMNT Urban Legends reaches its final conclusion after 20 years. Craig, Jim, and Raven look at the final three, and brand new, issues of TMNT: Urban Legends, revisit IDW’s TMNT 30th Anniversary … Continue reading

Its a magical world when Savage Dragon and the Savage FINcast go SUNDAY FUNNY! Craig, Jim, & Raven take a further look at Savage Dragon 251 before diving into the Savage Dragon’s Salute to the Funnies in Savage Dragon 252. It’s gag comic references galore as Erik Larsen pulls out all the stops emulating the … Continue reading

Get out the cake, its a birthday! The Savage FINcast goes green once again to catch up on the ongoing adventures of the Image Comics Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by reviewing the final 3, of the original run, issues of TMNT: Urban Legends. Craig, Jim, & Raven yuck it up about lax museum security, Dino … Continue reading

Its post anniversary bliss as the Savage FINcast crew; Craig, Jim & Raven are joined by the man himself Erik Larsen to discuss the titanic events of Savage Dragon 250 and 251! What’s the deal with Paul? How did the 250 back-ups come about? What is Larsen’s favorite kind of music? All this in the … Continue reading

In this episode of the Savage FINcast Retro Raven, Jim, & Craig finally arrive to the main event. Spinning out of the pages of Savage Dragon Freak Force is here! Cramped apartments, bounty hunting, revenge, bathroom comfortableness, and confusion about Manga. These issues have them all!

So its come to this. Savage Dragon. The big 250. Craig, Jim, Raven, and Scott delve into the 100 page monster to experience the cover to cover excitement as only Erik Larsen can bring us. In this episode the gang plays rank the variant, get excited about avoiding COVID, wonders about space octopi, and get … Continue reading

In this episode of the Savage FINcast retro Raven, Jim, and Craig take a look at some of the most iconic moments of early Savage Dragon. The founding of Freak Force. The first titanic confrontation with Overlord. It can’t hardly be contained! TIMESTAMPS02:05 – Savage Dragon 06 (Review)49:16 – Savage Dragon 07 (Review)

Hell has come to Toronto and the Savage FINcast is here to give you all the details. Jim, Raven, and Craig dig in as the new war between the Vicious Circle and Malcolm Dragon heats up. Old friends, old foes, old page layouts, this issue’s got it all. All this and a new FINteresting Conversation! … Continue reading

In this episode of the Savage FINcast Retro hosts Raven, Jim & Craig take a look at the final three issues of Gary Carlson’s Vanguard series. Featuring the art stylings of Rick Leonardi, Angel Medina, and Andy Smith. TIMESTAMPS01:57 – Vanguard 04 (Review)35:32 – Vanguard 05 (Review)59:15 – Vanguard 06 (Review)

In this latest episode of the Savage FINcast, things get a little… zany. Hosts Craig, Jim, & Raven have comic strips on the brain with the unveiling of Savage Dragon 252’s cover and its promise of Savage Dragon as comic strip promise. But after that they dig into the main event, Savage Dragon 248. Chicago … Continue reading

It’s time for another Savage Dragon side trip! Raven, Jim & Craig delve into deep space to to experience the initial adventures of Vanguard, alien super-hero come to protect the Earth from terrible extraterrestrial threats. The trio talk about the myriad of Vanguard artists and the pros and cons of changing art teams every issue … Continue reading

Many of us may be trapped inside due to a raging pandemic, but that doesn’t stop the Savage FINcast from rolling on. Craig, Jim, & Raven are back to record a long overdue interview with Savage Dragon front man Erik Larsen! Were we discus the challenges of Erik’s guest return to Marvel, Savage Dragon’s status … Continue reading

The world is in viral lock down, so instead of reviewing the latest and greatest issue of Savage Dragon, FINcast crew Craig, Jim, and Raven go back a few months to take a look at Erik Larsen’s Captain America: The End one-shot and react to its many many ironic parallels with today’s reality. Oh, and … Continue reading

In this very special episode of the Savage FINcast Jim, Raven, and Craig take a long overdue look at the Savage Dragon cartoon from 1994. Watch along at home on your tablet or PC as the gang riffs on the animation and voice over stylings of early 90s action cartoons. NOTE: This episode best listen … Continue reading

In this episode of the Savage FINcast Retro; Raven, Jim, & Craig take a look at Savage Dragon (on-going) issues 04 and 05, have options about how much a of jerk Dragon is, meet the very very gross Cesspool, ask pertinent questions about Doubleheader, and wish much merry death upon each other. All that plus … Continue reading

In this wacky and wild Savage FINcast Retro Raven, Craig, and Jim take a look at all the Savage Dragon Guest-Appearances that occurred from 1992 to around 1994. Some minor, some… major? But all worth talking about in some fashion. So join us as we cover…Spawn 04Shadowhawk 04Supreme 02Bombast 01The Maxx 06Team Youngblood 03Tribe 03Tribe … Continue reading

In this episode of the Savage FINcast Retro, Raven, Jim, and guest Scott James take a look at the final two issues of the first SuperPatriot mini-series. Dave Johnson’s crazy tech, how SuperPatriot might work as a feature film, what affects the Savage World had on the events of this story… all discussed in this … Continue reading

On this episode of the Savage FINcast Retro, Raven, Jim, and guest host Scott James take a look at the first two issues of Kieth Giffen and Dave Johnson classic mini-series, SuperPatriot!

In this episode of the Savage FINcast Retro, Jim & Raven are joined by friend of the FINcast Scott James to take a close look at the Savage Dragon/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles One-Shot, part 2 of the first Dragon/TMNT cross-over. As well as Savage Dragon on-going issue 03, with the first appearance of one of … Continue reading

It’s been a wild year in both Savage Dragon the comic and the Savage FINcast the podcast. Craig, Jim, & Raven are joined by friend of the show Scott James to discuss all seven titanic issues of Savage Dragon in 2019. What made us laugh? What made us cry? What are we looking forward to … Continue reading

Secret breakfast revelations abound on the latest episode of the Savage FINcast. Craig, Jim, and Raven experience modern warfare with the arrival of the Demonoid champion, the deadly Demon King, who is none to happy about the current state of his kingdom. Its a smash bang barnburner with Angel and Malcolm pushed to their limits, … Continue reading

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Savage Dragon reviews to bring you a massive TMNT catch-up episode. Craig, Jim, and Raven review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Urban Legends 13 thru 18 getting a look at some more Vanguard appearances, Raphael’s new career, some confusing stuff involving cyborg Donatello, Leonardo defending Leatherhead from Komodo Dragon attack, … Continue reading

In this episode of the Savage FINcast Retro, hosts Raven, Jim, and Craig are joined by Savage Dragon back-up artist and creator of the webcomic Juiceman, Scott James to review issues 01 and 02 of the Savage Dragon on-going series. Witness with them Dragon’s first battle with the Shrew, Dragon meeting the Teenage Mutant Ninja … Continue reading

It’s a Spoopy Halloween Eve as Savage FINcast co-hosts Craig, Jim, & Raven descend into the depths of madness with another terrifying episode. Malcolm Dragon and Captain Tootsie face down the deadly Scourge while Maxine makes the most important choice of her life. That, plus Erik Larsen News, FINcast games, and Fan questions. And if … Continue reading

Craig, Jim, and Raven conclude their retro look back at Al Gordon and Jerry Ordway’s Wildstar: Skyzero mini-series. Discussing head scratching visitors from the future of other comic publishers, the problem with introducing two weird new monsters at once, and the appearance of a certain mustached fin’d man. Yabba-Dabba-Do!

It’s a face ripping good time on the latest Savage FINcast Retro where hosts Craig, Jim, & Raven take a look at the first two issues of Al Gordon & Jerry Ordway’s classic early Image sci-fi series WILDSTAR. Bloody nostrils abound in this violent mind bending time travel adventure.

A frightening spooktacular awaits as Jim, Raven, and returning guest-host Zac Hawkins tackle Savage Dragon 245 to learn the secrets of the mysterious Chained Man. Jim and Raven reminisce about their recent comic convention misadventures at Terrificon. Everyone speculates about what Erik Larsen might be writing/drawing for Marvel next. And Jim and Zac gush about … Continue reading

In this episode of the Savage FINcast, hosts Craig, Jim, & Raven are joined by rising comic superstar Michel Fiffe! Fiffe is best know for his self-published team action title Copra, as well as short mini-series runs on Extreme’s Bloodstrike and IDW’s GI-Joe. We talk about Copra coming to Image Comics, his comic inspirations, his … Continue reading

Welcome to the Savage FINcast Retro! A new review series where we of the Savage FINcast finally go back to the 90s to review classic issues of Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon in chronological order from the beginning! This episode Craig, Jim, & Raven take a look at the finale issue of the original Savage Dragon … Continue reading

Welcome to the Savage FINcast Retro! A new review series where we of the Savage FINcast finally go back to the 90s to review classic issues of Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon in chronological order from the beginning. We’re going to be using this new review series to supplement our usual current issue review and interview … Continue reading

Welcome to the second episode of our FINterviews off-shoot format where we interview artists, writers, industry insiders, or just our friends in general! What will do they all have in common? A love of Savage Dragon and the work of Erik Larsen, of course! Our newest FINterview guest is comic book writer, editor and publisher, … Continue reading

Ladies and Gentlemen, LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!!!!! It’s the Baby Electric Dynamo Malcolm Dragon vs the Masked Haystack Fighting Fowl Powerhouse in a knockdown drag-out battle for the ages with a million bucks on the line to see who will be crowned the Super Freak champion of the world! The Savage FINcast hosts Craig … Continue reading

Welcome listeners to a new off-shoot Savage Fincast format called FINterviews!. This will be a periodic bonus FINcast format in addition to our monthly issue reviews. Where we interview artists, writers, industry insiders, or just our friends in general! What will they all have in common? A love of Savage Dragon and the work of … Continue reading

It’s deadly danger at ever turn in this latest episode of the Savage FINcast. Craig, Jim, & Raven bring you a stacked episode, with; Savage Dragon News, Jim’s secret Top 10 List, a comprehensive review of Savage Dragon 243, and reviews of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Urban Legends 9 & 10 (featuring, The Knight Watchmen … Continue reading

It’s God vs Ant action in SAVAGE DRAGON 242 for this exciting new episode of The Savage FINcast! Craig, Jim, & Raven experience one of the greatest comic snowball fights ever put to page, the future of killer sex bots, discus just what Ant’s deal is, possible future threats to Malcolm Dragon, and Raven shares a … Continue reading

Its titan against titan in the latest episode of the Savage FINcast. Hosts Craig, Jim, & Raven witness the trigonometric rustle between Malcolm Dragon and golden age icon CAPTAIN TOOTSIE. But is everything as it appears? The gang talk about Tootsie’s history, their least favorite awful candy, what they want to see in Savage Dragon … Continue reading

Warning. Savage FINcast episode 77 may contain strong opinions by hosts Craig, Jim, & Raven on the the following; Savage Dragon 240, Batman in the 80s, Scooby Doo relevance in the 21st century, caption boxes, Michelangelo’s amazing smoochy face, Dick Tracy artist bait & switches, and the future of Savage Dragon! TIMESTAMPS 00:56 – Introduction … Continue reading

After two episodes of pulse pounding interview excitement, FINcast hosts Jim & Raven cool down with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Urban Legend double review. Then the return of the Savage Dragon retro-review, covering the ever classic Savage Dragon 10 with the appearance of create-a-character contest winner Jimbo ‘da Mighty Lobster! Its a post-Thanksgiving triple … Continue reading

The Savage FINcast celebrates its 75th official episode in grand fashion, welcoming back series creator Erik Larsen to discuss the last few months of Savage Dragon, the latest issue 239, and plans for the future. We also talk about his trip to New York Comic Con, his memories of the Savage Dragon Cartoon, and just … Continue reading

Five. Years. Latter. Regular Savage FINcast hosts Craig, Jim, and Raven are joined again by recurring Savage Dragon backup artist Scott James to talk Savage Dragon 238, what Scott has been up too, personal computer troubles, child labor, and of course… shmeckels. News, Reviews, Back-Ups, this jam packed 2 hour classic has got it all! … Continue reading

New dangers are a afoot in the latest episode of the Savage FINcast! Jim & Raven take a look at the modern classic SAVAGE DRAGON 237. Where Angel ends up in compromising positions and finds herself in a face off with the terrible new Canadian super threat, Crawfish Kettlecorn! I mean… THE SCOURGE! Also this episode … Continue reading