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Title: Groo’s Clothes
Series:
Groo the Wanderer #46
Author:
Sergio Aragones
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Comics
Pages: 25
Words:
2K
Publish: 1988
Groo is hungry and needs kopins. He accidentally sinks a boat and everyone starts telling him how smelly he is. After not taking a bath for weeks, wearing the same clothes for years, carrying two fish in his clothes for a day and sleeping in a pigpen, Groo can’t understand why no one will hire him. He proceeds to hit various people on the head and steal their clothes. This leads him to being mistaken for very non-Groo people, like a world famous architect, or a brain surgeon, with very predictable and Groo-like outcomes, hahahahaa. Groo eventually steals his own clothes back from a scarecrow. He is then hired by a mercenary and given kopins to go buy himself some new clothes, which he does. Only he forgets who hired him and wanders around the town asking people if they hired him. Some tough guys start making fun of his clothes, not realizing he is Groo. Groo attacks them, gets his clothes all cut up and then finds the mercenary who hired him and who demands why Groo didn’t buy himself some new clothes (the new clothes were all cut up in the fight with the toughs AND Groo fell into a pot or orange dye). Groo reacts as only Groo can and starts attacking everybody. Both armies race away from the fray for their lives.
The clothes that you see Groo wearing on the cover are the actual ones in the comic. And it only takes Aragones four pages to have Groo turn them back into his old clothes. Each step along the process made total sense, especially for Groo, and nothing about it felt forced or out of place. It was hilarious!
The page I’m showing for this comic
is the one of Groo sleeping in the pigpen. It just struck my funny
bone :-)
★★★✬☆
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