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Groo Hell on Earth

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I didnt find it to be too political, nor did I find it any less funny than previous Groo titles. Ive never found Groo to be overly laugh out loud funny and this volume doent change that. Im still waiting for "the Groo Playground" and whatever happened to "The Groo Treasury Volume 1"

The comic had more of a political agenda and irony than it was funny. Groo in the standard comic did more Groo things that make you have a good belly laugh. Having a book like this seemed to give license to develop an agenda which I didn't like.

Groo is hilarious. But too often of late, the writers get on a politically-correct "teaching about real world problems" frame of mind, and this is sadly one of those times. Global warming is threatening our planet. OK, we get it. Boring. I'll go watch Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." I don't need to read about it in "Groo." It's just not funny!

I have only been a spotty reader of Groo over the years, but picked up this graphic novel used and thought it was just hilarious. It was a great send-up of exactly what is going on in today's world, set in the fantasy kingdoms of Groo's world. We hear a lot about how people may be influencing the climate, but this fictional story practically shows it step by step, hilariously. The different kingdoms are competing in an arms race, which leads to pollution, which leads to an impact on the environment with severe climate changes that threaten to make the international conflicts look paltry by comparison. Written in an accomplished, humorous style with the bumbling barbarian playing the comic relief. The art is just amazing, great crowd scenes and imaginatively-dressed characters all done in a style that looks so deceptively easy to draw. Aragones is a true master of the cartoonists' art. There is a good amount of material at the end in which the writer gives his opinion behind the story, which is very thoroughly thought out.

I would recommend this to people who like graphic novels but thought Groo was just funny fiction (like I did). Also to people who are concerned about the environment and people's impact on it but are not very experienced reading comics or graphic novels. People who just want to be entertained may not know what to think of it (though maybe they will get a better idea of how people can have an impact on this world), and people who think climate change is a hoax will not like it at all and think it is preachy.