Savage Dragon #274
“The Return of Mr. Glum!”
December 2024
20 Pages
CREDITS
Erik Larsen: Story & Art
Jack Morelli: Letters
Nikos Koutsis: Colors
Mike Toris: Flats
Gavin Higginbotham: Editor
Josh Eichhörn: no artificial sweeteners
HEROES
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Angel Murphy (Alternate)
Frank Darling Jr. (as Mister Glum)
VILLAINS
Mister Glum (as Frank Darling Jr.) (Death Issue)
SUMMARY
Battle Girl arrives in Dimension-X where she is immediately attacked by a horde of alien warriors that try to strip her for rape. She is rescued from this fate by Mister Glum who had pursued her into his home realm and uses his makeshift weapon to fend off the initial wave of assailants. His human form is quickly over-powered and it is down to Battle Girl to save him from rape this time and hurls him down to the Glum World below.
The aliens are finally defeated and Battle Girl is able to head down to the Glum World and is shocked by the sight of her husband, in Glum’s body, holding a gun against his own human form, possessed by the evil Mister Glum. The younger Angel tries to calm things down as Frank demands to be returned to his own body at last.
Despite the fact that the mind-swapping device has been destroyed, Frank demands that Glum rebuild the machine and threatens to kill him otherwise. As they head into the laboratory, the two Angels talks about the situation. The older version points out that it is her that Frank loves and that she is just a child that happens to look like her. Frank says that there is no reason why Glum would want to remain in his body as he is now a man wanted for murder on the run.
Battle Girl offers to take her younger counterpart back to Earth to live with her and Frank. Angel declares that she loves living in Dimension-X as they get to just kill and eat whatever they like and she has never even been to Earth before. As they continue to discuss the next move, Glum tries to convince them that Frank will kill he and Angel when he is restored. Glum points out that Angel would still be in suspended animation if he had not retrieved her and raised her,
Mister Glum injects his stolen body with a serum that transform him into an increasingly-growing super-powered form. He shrugs off the powerful blasts of his weapon before launch Battle Girl back through the portal to Dimension-X where she finds herself by the fallen form of Captain Tootsie. This then leaves Frank trying to deal with his original body and notes that iodine was in the mix.
Unfortunately for Glum, Frank is allergic to iodine and that means that the serum he used to gain powers begins to react badly. The gigantic form of Glum suddenly explodes and kills him, Frank is distraught at the death of his body and the fact that he and Angel remain trapped in Dimension-X. Angel cheers up her companion by pointing out that she has the device that would have allowed Glum to track down the portal back to Earth. Although she has no desire to leave Glum World, Angel agrees to leave with Frank to live with him and Battle Girl forever.
Backup Story
G-MAN WEBCOMICS
8 Pages
CREDITS
Chris Giarrusso: Story & Art