Komodo dragon relative?

What's brown and blue and looks like a tiny cousin to a Komodo dragon or some equally fearsome in appearance beast?

Would you believe a male Eastern Fence Lizard?

We saw our first such ever on Tuesday by the fence around the neighborhood pool. We had no clue what it was at first but we eliminated Green Anole (the most common lizard seen around these parts) because of the distinctive blue along the length of the belly of this new lizard.

Thanks to the research of our partners at AIS (Adventures in Science), the identification was made with a look at this picture: