Thursday, May 19, 2011

Good finds in teh cheap bins-5 random issues of Groo the Wanderer


Groo is a comic book series that at last count has been published by 6 different companies. Written by Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragoines and with Sergio doing the artwork this is a simple tale of a brainless barbarian and his trusty dog. As they go from town to town trying to earn money and get some cheese dip. Now a few years back I won an auction on Ebay and got like 40 random issues of the Marvel/Epic run of Groo. And the other day dug them out cause I wanted something funny to read. The first issue I read was #24 and dealt with a town that had be cursed to become the ugliest town on the planet. And with how Groo keeps trying to undo the curse. The second issue,#25,was all about how through so misadventures Groo ended up having 3 different groups of raiders attack the same town. Then issue #33 in which Groo becomes leader of a group of pirates. Which is strange cause any ship Groo comes aboard ends up sinking rather quickly. Issue #42 is up next and has the classic story of Grannie Groo trying to marry Groo off to 2 different women. The first of which is a fugly farm girl and the second of which is a rich princess. Great issue that had me laughing many many times.Last one in this group was issue #43. Another issue with Grannie Groo ,she sells Groo into slavery,and he of course messed up her plan. I have always enjoyed Groo,but have learned to never read most than 5 or 6 issues at once. If you do the stories start to run together and it kinda makes then less enjoyable. This batch of Groo comics gets a B+.