[Groop] y i love groo

[Shawn Moore]

I was in prison hanging on the wall in shackles rotting and there was only 
one window I could see out of and all I could see was this window of a comic 
book store.  There was a large poster of this wierd guy wearing an orange 
tinic with a sword in the window.  A few days into my life sentence, this 
guard brought in a copy of Groo and showed what I looked like in the funny 
books, and all I could do was look at that goofy drawing of the Groo and 
then I knew exactly who that mendicate was.  Year after year, the poster of 
Groo would never change and as my mind grew weaker day by day, all I could 
think of was Groo and the swords and Groo taking me out with a swipe of his 
sword in my mind.  When I got pardoned 10 years later from my jaywalking 
conviction, the first thing I did was to get a gas can and head to the comic 
store intending to burn it to the ground.  As I approached the store, the 
poster of Groo was gone.  I put the can down and walked into the comic store 
and inquired where the Groo poster was that has been there for the last 
decade.  The guy told me that they just took it down and was putting a new 
one up, it was the one from Image comics, the one with Groo and Rufferto.  
"Hey, that's one cute dog" I said. The guy handed me a copy of the latest 
Groo and told me to look at the back.  I laughed so hard at the Rufferto 
story, I just had to open the comic and see what else it had to offer.  A 
few seconds later, I was laughing so hard, and that's when I fell in love 
with Groo.

The moral:      Don't judge a book by its cover, flip it over and check out 
the Rufferto on the back.