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Title: Chakaal, Again!
Series:
Groo the Wanderer #50
Author:
Sergio Aragones
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Comics
Pages: 44
Words:
4K
Publish: 1989
Ahhh, a 50th issue. It’s a big milestone for any comic, especially back in the late 80’s. At the end of issue 49, Groo was in a land where nobody knew him and was trying to force a village to hire him to protect them and came across a female warrior who seemed to know him.
Well, in this double issue we find out all about Chakaal and how Groo “helps” her at every turn with rather usual Groo results, hahahaaha.
Groo had proposed marriage to Chakaal long ago and wouldn’t take no for an answer. So Chakaal sailed to the farthest land she could find and started protecting a village from a bunch of amazons. Chakaal has a Master Plan to discover the amazon’s hidden fortress but Groo obviously messes that up. Then when Chakaal gets captured and Groo goes to “rescue” her, he messes up her Master Plan B, predictable as the sun rising. Finally, when he gives up trying to rescue her, he accidentally blows up the island and reveals its location to the kings navy and they invade and set all the captives free. Chakaal still tells Groo “no” and this time he finally gets it.
Even though this was a double issue, it did not feel any longer than usual. It helped that there was a concurrent side story running about Rufferto (Groo’s mongrel dog) being super jealous of Chakaal. Rufferto isn’t much smarter than Groo and doesn’t realize that Chakaal just won’t have Groo, period. So he’s worried and jealous the whole comic and it is funny :-D
★★★✬☆
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