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New member introduction
Hi all,
I just joined the groop and thought I'd drop a message about myself and also
ask a couple questions.
My first issue of Groo was either #4 or #8 (Epic), I can't remember which. I
collected Groo steadily until around #40, and I also went back and got the
earlier Epic issues I was missing. At that point I dropped comics
completely, so Groo was one of many casualties. Every now and then I would
get curious about comics again so I would wander into a shop and pick up a
couple issues...thus, I got #98 and a couple other high-numbered issues from
Epic's run. I completely missed the Image run, though. Then a year or two
ago I got back into comics in a big way (and still am), so I started picking
up all the Groo minis from Dark Horse as they came out. Also, I went on Ebay
and bought a big lot of Groo books so that now I have almost all of the Epic
run, although I haven't read that big lot yet. So basically my knowledge of
Groo is from the early days of Epic, and then the Dark Horse minis. Big
gap.... Oh yeah, I also have the Groo card game and its expansion.
I wasn't all that crazy about the mini where Rufferto is teleported to modern
times. But this current series (Mightier Than the Sword) is great
stuff...full of gags that remind me why I got hooked on Groo in the first
place. I don't know how the rest of the list feels about this, but I sure
wish Groo was a regular monthly book again instead of these sporatic 4-issue
miniseries.
Anyway, I guess I only have one question for now: Are Mark and Sergio still
hiding secret messages in issues of Groo? Back in the early days of Epic,
every issue used to have a secret message. I was terrible at finding them,
though--with most of them, I had to wait until they revealed the secrets in a
later letters page. Anyway, my memory is fuzzy but I seem to remember that
after a while they decided to stop doing secret messages. However, in issue
#2 of Mightier Than the Sword there is some small cryptic writing at the
bottom of a couple pages (one of them is the last page of one of the
chapters...I don't have my copy with me to be more specific). I can't figure
out what those words are for, unless they are a hint to a secret message.
Thanks!