bwahahaha! This reminds me of Dahvros in our D&D games! LOVE it. :)

Ferret

Nice illustation!

Great stuff. Faved.

The expression on the dragon's face is rather amusing here.

I love when elements of fantasy and technology mix.

Cool stuff! :D

i wanna fly onna draagon

Oh, wow. Great stuff.

Warlord is nothing but a bandit/pirate.
I'll bet he imprisons the pilots and dragons, too.
And hold any important passengers for ransom.

Ah shoot! You've been peeking at my notes, haven't you? Don't you dare steal my "Orb of All Knowing."

I've got my own. It's a little wonky (okay, a lot wonky) but darn useful.

Your comment made my day.

Glad to have made a creator smile.

I like the head wings/canards. That dragon must have some killer neck muscles.

Yeah. I like to look at my dragons as "Organic Aircraft," and draw them to where they look like they'd function in a similar manner as aircraft would. You're right. The Dragon in this instance not only uses his head and neck to keep from stalling in level flight, but also to gain or decrease altitude, and steer.

I wonder what one could feed a dragon to create a smoke screen until it disappears into the clouds. Flying in clouds without radar and an artificial horizon...

Funny you should mention that. I was considering a scenario where one of the planes gets in directly behind the Dragon and starts firing away with the machine gun. In the next panel, the warplane is going down with white gunk covering both the pilot, the machine gunner, and most the front of the aircraft. The crew of the warplane are reacting with great disgust with the realization of what they've been covered with. In the panel after that, one of the Dragon Riders is stroking the neck of the Dragon and saying. "Good Boy! That'll teach 'em!"

Splendid idea! I hope that you do that!!

I wonder if dragons have gizzards like birds to grind up their food? A gizzard rock dump hitting a following plane could be nearly as effective as a tail end heavy machine gun.

Yeah. Most folks I've shared this image with like the "Oh S***!" expression on the Dragon's face. I guess it's not often folks get to see a Dragon in such a predicament.

Now that's the first I've ever heard of Birds being able to pass Gizzard stones. I was always under the impression that once the stones were in the crop they stayed there until they were worn out. In that book, "The Flight of Dragons" the author pointed out that his dragons had gizzards, and they instinctively knew where to find rocks with piezoelectric qualities which they could strike to produce sparks and ignite the methane built up in their gut. I kinda like the idea of my Dragons being able to spit stones at high velocity, so why not?

Both methane and hydrogen are produced by gut fermentation of fiber. (In healthy humans, it is mostly hydrogen.) I love the piezoelectric stones idea! If the dragon swallowed air that mixed with the hydrogen and methane with a stone behind it... I have a replica of a Chinese muzzle loading hand cannon that is decorated as a fire breathing dragon.

Zhede ma? Liangkuai!

OK - you have confused the Google translator. What say you?

Sorry! My Mandarin Chinese is very bad. I was saying, "Really? That's 'Cool."

Thanks!

Ffffff... wow, this is beautiful. (and much like dreams I've had...awesome dreams. :D )

In this case, lights and beacons would be detrimental, makes them easier to pick out and attack.

And someone needs to put a hit on that warlord. Probably had it coming for years.