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Firebreather: A brief rant

Does anyone know what happened with this comic? It seemed to be popular one day and the next day disappeared.

Just for some background, I began reading this comic a while after it first came out, probably later into its 2nd volume. Each volume was essentially a standalone mini-series, but with hints of a bigger story.

Based on my understanding it seemed to be fairly popular. I met the artist and writer once at NYCC, I think at the height of its popularity, just before the 3rd volume came out. I remember they both were very enthusiastic about the series.

Cartoon Network even made a TV movie based off of it. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad either. But still, this proves it must have been popular, at least somewhat.

The comic series itself had a lot going for it.

The story was great and engaging with a good cast of likable characters.

It had a good amount of comedic moments,

Endearing moments as well,

And action scenes. 

It also had one of the strangest and rather confusing romances in comics.

(This was a joke in the movie).

Simultaneously with the TV movie, the 3rd volume, Holmgang was being released. 

Issue 1

Issue 2

A big cliffhanger, which had been hinted at previously through volume 2.

And the nothing, just a quiet cancellation. Even after a google search, there is very little news about this series. The only information I could find was on the Midtown Comics website, listing vol 3 #3 as “cancelled”.

There has been no other acknowledgement that it was cancelled, which is kind of sad. It was a very fun series and its  too bad this series just disappeared with little fanfare. 

End rant.

Yes

HEY DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE 2010 FILM TRAILER FIREBREATHER WHERE THE KID IS ANGSTY AND THE SON OF A BIG BUDDY DRAGON??

WELL I DO!! AND FOR 8 YEARS I WAS HAUNTED BY THE BACKGROUND SONG AND HOW I COULD NEVER FIND IT. BUT GUESS WHAT, I DID.

8 FUCKING YEARS AND NOW I’M FREE. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mw9akcDCvI

Did you say firebreather

Does anybody remember the movie Firebreather? It came out on Cartoon Network in 2010. Based on a comic that had two runs and the second run never finished bc it was pulled for no reason I could find. Main plot of it is half kaiju/half human teen trying to cope with that? (And yes, apparently his human mother had s*x with a “hundred and twenty foot” Dragon like kaiju and lived, don’t think too hard on it) 

The writing (for the movie, I’ve seen only a little of the comics and it seems much better but I’ve not seen enough to make a call) is terrible, the cg aged like milk, and the character designs are… Not too good looking but eh. 

I only watched it a million times over because I enjoyed the like ten seconds of gt here and there. 

Anybody remember it besides me? I’ve searched it and it has exactly: 9 tagged Ao3 fics, a handful of Tumblr fanart, a few jokes on monsterf*ckers, and a smut ficlet on Tumblr.