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Title: The Wanderer
Series:
Groo the Wanderer #48
Author:
Sergio Aragones
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Comics
Pages: 24
Words:
2K
Publish: 1989
Groo is sick of everyone knowing who he is and calling him names or making fun of him. Thus begins his journey as a Wanderer to find a land where nobody knows who he is. After many unsuccessful attempts, one town claims not to know who Groo is. They are lying of course, but they hope to make Groo go away before he causes a disaster. In their attempts to ignore Groo, they annoy him and thus Groo ends up destroying the town anyway. But a smart merchant has been paying attention to the fact that Groo is in town. He has a boat full of stuff for the King. He sells the stuff to the local merchants and uses all of the money to buy insurance on his ship. He then invites Groo onto the ship and sets sail for the Kingdom where he is supposed to take the stuff. Because he knows Groo will sink the ship and he will get rich off of the multiple insurance policies. So of course the ship doesn’t sink and the King’s Guards arrest the merchant for thievery and Groo wanders off the ship, wondering if he can find any town where nobody knows him.
I read through this in just 15 minutes. But you know what? They were a really fun 15 minutes. Groo is fun and funny and I always enjoy my read of this comic. I can’t ask for much more and so I don’t. I look forward to reading Groo, I look forward to having a good time and I’m not disappointed. That is one of the reasons I only read one Groo comic a month. I want to keep it good and I’m concerned that more than one a month would spoil it for me.
I love this page. First you have the bird and the guy in the crow’s nest banging heads. Then you have everyone, including the SHARKS!!!!, saying how it is inevitable that the ship will sink since Groo is on it. Finally, you have the peoples’ faces as the realization sinks in that Groo HAS ruined them, by NOT sinking their ship. I’d wondered in previous comics if someone could utilize Groo’s propensity for mayhem and destruction. Well, someone tried in this comic and they failed miserably, hahahahaha!
★★★✬☆
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