Sergio Aragonés Groo the Wanderer #60

Sergio Aragonés' pen is in full, gleeful form on this mid-December 1989 entry in the long-running Epic Comics series, as the cover finds Groo and his faithful dog Rufferto surrounded by a dense, wonderfully grotesque crowd of onlookers — all wearing the same slack-jawed, horrified expressions while Groo grins with cheerful obliviousness amid a scatter of overturned pots and general chaos. It's a perfectly distilled snapshot of everything that makes this series tick: Aragonés' endlessly expressive linework packing every inch of the image with comic personality, from the foreground feast-gone-wrong to the crowd stretching deep into the background. With "The Mendicants" as the interior story and the creative team of Aragonés, Mark Evanier, Tom Luth, and Stan Sakai behind it, issue #60 is a fine example of this series firing on all cylinders.