<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">As a gag manga!? I really wanna track down the originals then!</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well, Akira Toriyama was originally a comedic writer. The series he worked on before Dragon Ball was Dr. Slump, which was solely a gag manga (And is actually one of the most popular gag mangas of all time, if not<em>the</em>most popular). And while Dragon Ball started out as a gag manga, it eventually became more and more serious up until it was more of an action manga that an adventure/gag manga.<br/><br/>Go to magareader.net and look up Dragon Ball. The chapters are really poor quality but you can still read the entire series there.