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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.