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Title: The Arana
Series: Groo
the Wanderer #52
Author:
Sergio Aragones
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Comics
Pages: 24
Words:
2K
Publish: 1989
Well, Chakaal is here to stay, apparently. It’s been three issues and she’s on the little picture in the upper left of the cover where the price tag and all the info is. That is usually reserved for the main character of the comic. And since Groo doesn’t want to get away from her (as shown by that picture above), I don’t see her stay being a short one. Pooo.
Anyway, Groo and Chakaal come across a village that is about to offer a human sacrifice to Arana, a gigantic spider that has been preying on the town. There’s some shenanigans with another village, Groo gets completely drunk, drunk Goo and Chakaal get the Arana drunk and then kill it. Of course, there’s a lot more in between nor is it as simple as that, but that’s the gist. Of course, while fighting the Arana, drunk Groo sees something that he later can’t remember. He dismisses it as unimportant after the battle but the last panel of the comic shows a little cave off of the Arana’s lair, just filled with tiny Aranas, so you know one of them will become top spider again.
Despite the seriousness of the problems
(human sacrifice, warring villages, a giant monster spider), Aragones
keeps the one very light and dispels any darkness with panels of
humor, usually of Groo doing or being very dumb. It is quite
effective. And Aragones knows it is effective, because in one panel
Chakaal is going off against human sacrifice and uses Groo as an
example of a dumb person who doesn’t mind it and convinces all the
villagers to give it up :-D
★★★✬☆
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