History of Dragonlance Comics
The history of Dragonlance comics is an interesting collection of stops and starts; success and failures. In the mid 80's DC comics had acquired licenses to several TSR settings (including Dragonlance, The Forgotten Realms, and Spelljammer) and released comics based on those properties. For the Dragonlance comics, the stories were told in an anthology format, with about 3-4 issues completing one tale. One of the bad things in the series at this time was that the stories were bouncing around in time, from just before the War of the Lance, to many, many years later and was slightly confusing, even for someone familiar with the setting and the timeline. Later in the run, the comic settled on a set of characters and kept the stories at around the same time. Unfortunately the comic had moved from the content of Ansalon, where all the previous novels and most of the gaming products had been set, to the new content of Taladas. This coincided with the TSR release of the new lands in a few...