When I started to look outside of Sweden for new comics, way back in the 1980s, one of the titles that really got me excited was Groo by Aragonés and Evanier. It was very silly, but Aragonés's drawings were inspired and the atmosphere of the comic book, with all the stupid remarks on the letter page etc., made me feel like part of a family. Now I realize that the latter was a continuation of the MAD tradition, but for me, in the 1980s, it was magic.
Anyway, this was a roundabout way of getting to the fact that in the new issue of the Swedish comic book Herman Hedning - which now that I come to think about it works just about the same way with letter pages, editorial texts etc. - has a new episode of... Groo! Let's see if a new generation of Swedish readers gets as excited as I was.
