Comic Review/Mark Passio vid on Ignore-ance: Groo: Friends and Foes #5- Funny & Good

Art: Sergio Aragones
Story: Mark Evanier
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Released: 20th May 2015


It’s so refreshing to read a funny comic, that’s actually funny, and not knowing, clever, ironic, self-modern, neo-liberal, feminist or Marxist.

Reading this issue of Groo: Friends and Foes #5 took me back to a time when comic books were good. A time before the influence of cultural Marxism, and what we have in the majority of comic books today.

Contemporary comic books are not funny. I want to enjoy them, but it’s impossible. How can I enjoy a comic book that reminds me of one of my old Feminism/Marxism College classes? It’s really depressing that those dated and discredited ideas have managed to permeate themselves so deeply into the psyches of writers today.

What the Hell are they doing? Have they not being paying attention to the world recently?

They do realise that Marxism is 100% sponsored by private banking interests, don’t they?

They do realise that feminism is anti-family, anti-individual and being used to enslave people to the corporate state, don’t they?

They do realise that new legislation is being passed that will make you a ‘terrorist’ if you don’t agree with the tyranny of the state, don’t they?

Do they not realise what is going on in 2015?

What the Hell is going on with all of this cultural Marxism feminist crap that I read in my comic books today?

I realise that writers have been indoctrinated by their suburban educational experiences, but they do have the Internet, right? They might have been lied to at school, but they have no excuse for doing what they are doing. They have no excuse for their ignorance.

When you have the information available, and refuse to look at it, that’s ignorance, and that’s what I see in mainstream comic books of 2015.

IGNORANCE (ignore ance) OF THE TRUTH (Please watch this short video)

Groo is different. It’s silly, and funny, and there’s no cultural Marxism in it, at all. The characters are daft, it’s written with a wink, and a sense of the absurdity of life. It made me smile, it made me think back to the times when comic books were like this, when they were their own little thing and the world looked interesting and full of possibilities.

When I read contemporary comic books I’m reading statist propaganda. I’m reading the death of all hope, the death of rebellion and any chance of human emancipation from the tyranny of the neo-liberal corporate status quo. Imagination has died, and the books are being written by suburban fanboys looking to sell a script of spectacle and quips mixed with a dollop of politically correct feminist Marxism to their all powerful Gods of the Tele ‘lie’ Vision.

I don’t want to read that. I want to read something that is good. I want to read something that doesn’t want to join the corporate borg. I want to read something that is free, something that is a celebration of life, not a negation of it.

Groo- Friends and Foes #5 is silly, and funny, and it made me smile. The characters are always smiling, even when they are frowning, even when they are being beaten up, they are doing it with a smile. If you want to smile, then buy the book. It’s timeless, and good, and unlike any other comic book out there today.


Rating: 8/10 (Daft, funny, timeless and good)