{"id":13513,"date":"2015-05-12T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=13513"},"modified":"2015-05-11T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:31:49","slug":"a-town-called-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2015\/05\/12\/a-town-called-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Town Called Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Judd Winick<\/strong> & Geoff Shaw<\/strong>, with Jamie Grant<\/strong> (Legendary Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-93727-840-3<\/p>\n

Legendary Comics (a print adjunct of Legendary Pictures – responsible for the latest Batman\/Dark Knight<\/strong> movies as well as The Hangover<\/strong>, Man of Steel<\/strong> and 300<\/strong>) is an outfit that seems to specialise in graphic narratives tailored for big screen film franchises, and this latest trade paperback release feels like their best potential blockbuster offering yet\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Gathering a 5-issue miniseries (from September 2014 to January 2015) this no-nonsense thriller-romp is written by Judd Winick, illustrated by Geoff Shaw and coloured by Jamie Grant, and opens just before the end with a valiant band of outsiders facing the most terrifying creature in history\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Flashing back to Norway a thousand years ago a bit of backstory reveals that at that time an army of Norse heroes slew the last dragon in the world\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but not before an egg was laid.<\/p>\n

The vile wyrms were the greatest threat to mankind ever known, fast, deadly and voracious. Only after uncounted deaths over centuries did the Northmen finally devise a way to kill the monsters, and then only when they had matured. Newborn dragons hatch out fast, starving and utterly invulnerable\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

The deadly seed also proved to be immune to all efforts at destruction, but the wise men had learned that intense cold kept them from hatching. Thus, wary King Olaf Truggvason<\/em>, after exhausting every effort to destroy the ominous ovoid, bade intrepid explorer Leif Erickson<\/em> to take the damned egg to the other side of the world and leave it there in the coldest place he could find\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Discovering a new continent after an epic voyage, Leif and his dedicated followers carried the lethal load halfway across the country, climbed a snow-capped mountain, sealed themselves in a cave and lay down to die\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

In 2014 Dragon, Colorado<\/em> is just another small town in the skiing belt trying to attract the tourist dollar, but not every citizen is on board with the Mayor’s schlocky schemes to capitalise on the name by turning every store and public building into a simulated saurian playground.<\/p>\n

Failed football star and Olympic javelin hopeful Cooper<\/em> Runyon<\/em> is happy with his diner as is, big city outsider and very bad waitress Kelly<\/em> is more interested in making sculptures and farmer Pete<\/em> just wants to sell produce, not gussy-up his cows into some kind of tacky petting zoo\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Sheriff Castro<\/em>‘s kids Sam<\/em> and Eric<\/em> are having too much fun blowing up stuff to even get into drugs and other normal crap let alone dragons, solitary old man Garvey<\/em> gives off a spooky CIA vibe and wants to be left alone and PhD. Malcolm just wants to study his ancient languages.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6And then there’s poor troubled, bi-polar Mickey<\/em> who spends all his time scaling mountains like Devil’s Peak<\/em> looking for a purpose to his life and perhaps a good way to die\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

It’s whilst on one of those rash escapades that the climber discovers a bunch of German scientists secretly excavating a cave and, after alerting the disbelieving township, heads straight back up to the summit in time to see the egg hatch and all hell break bloodily loose\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Back home his crazy warnings aren’t disbelieved for long. Soon after he gets to town livestock starts disappearing, a strange lizard-skin is found in a tree and of course there’s the twenty-foot dragon ripping up Main Street and torching citizens just as a blizzard cuts off the rural paradise from all outside contact\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Trapped, terrified, vengeful but far from helpless, an unlikely team of heroes thrown together by a rather heavy-handed Fate are soon following instructions left by a thousand-years-dead Viking and attacking the greatest threat to modern humanity ever seen\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but even after their astoundingly improbably triumph there’s a terrifying further threat in store\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Also incorporating a beautiful gallery of covers – in both pencilled and fully coloured final versions – this fast-paced, razor-sharp, witty and astoundingly action-packed monster mash rattles along with vivid characters and smart set-pieces in the manner of Tremors<\/strong>, Critters<\/strong>, Them!<\/strong> or perhaps even Bubba Ho-Tep<\/strong>: a satisfying scary rollercoaster romp tailor-made for transferral to the silver screen.<\/p>\n

More please!
\n\u00c2\u00a9 2015 Legendary Comics LLC. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Judd Winick & Geoff Shaw, with Jamie Grant (Legendary Comics) ISBN: 978-1-93727-840-3 Legendary Comics (a print adjunct of Legendary Pictures – responsible for the latest Batman\/Dark Knight movies as well as The Hangover, Man of Steel and 300) is an outfit that seems to specialise in graphic narratives tailored for big screen film franchises, … <\/p>\n

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