“Herr Haupt, In the day traveling to Stalag 13 he’s slammed him against the wall, tripped him into tree, hit him with a board & pushed him off the truck, always seemingly ‘accidentally’. He’s trying to slay him!”
“Clearly the Ensign is trying to stop the Captain from exposing the plans!” said Hockstetter
“Plans?” Binghamton protested, “I don’t have any plans! Parker’s just a bumbling boob.”
“And killing your commanding officer is against regulations.” Parker added solemnly.
“Bah!” shouted Hockstetter, He was convinced the Captain was lying, although that man DID look like a bumbling boob.
“You mean neither of them know they’re on a mission?”
“As far as they know Carter, they were captured by accident”, Hogan replied as they checked their weapons, “Our job is to convince the Germans they’re the real thing & help them find the phony info.”
At that moment Cpl Newkirk gave whispered warning: “Colonel, Krauts at the tunnel!”
Hogan peered out of the periscope in dismay, guards were right at the tunnel exit, no way out. The fake attack on the truck carrying the officers to convince the Gestapo they had invasion plans was stymied before it could start.
My son sent me this link concerning a kickstarter campaign here is a screen shot of it’s progress:
With 15 days to go this project is funded nearly 5x beyond what it needs.
Of course in fairness the original Groo dice game was not only hilarious but easy and fun to play so a revival makes sense. I still have my copy from when I owned a comic book store in the 1980’s I remember it fondly and highly recommend it. Based on the response there are plenty of other people who think the same so I suspect this will be a moneymaker for Steve Jackson games.
Those are fully stocked store shelves of this merchandise, as if no one had touched them for weeks. Nobody wanted a Pride chew toy for their pet, nobody wanted Pride children’s wear, or transgender-themed children’s toys (I had to look up what Kidd Kenn was in the blue and pink box on the last in the sequence — a rap star), nobody wanted a Pride baking kit, nobody wanted LGBTQ+-themed liquor, or LGBTQ+ cups to put them in. Notice that the liquor is already on sale. Nobody wanted rainbow kid boots.
That’s shelf space that could have been used for merchandise that people wanted to buy, and in retail, efficient use of shelf space for things that sell is the name of the game. They pay people to determine those things. These items at Target Kearny Mesa were all displayed prominently at the front of the store, no back of the store decision for them. You’ve heard of “dead-naming”? Well, this was “dead-spacing.”
UnexpectedlyTM of course.
The reality is that both of these items are dealing with a niche market. The difference is that the makers of the Groo game aren’t pretending that their market is bigger than it is so they will show a profit. These guys at Target, not so much.
“Herr General I strongly object! We could question these prisoners anywhere else. Why send them from Italy to that incompetent bungler Kink?”
“Hochstetter I have my orders. These officers have key Allied invasion information and Klink has never had an escape.”
A crash came outside the door which opened to a dazed American captain, a picture frame around his neck, guards restraining him from throttling the bald apologizing Ensign trying to brush dust off him with his cap.
Burkhalter observed the odd spectacle, “Besides, being under an incompetent bungler seems the perfect place for this pair.”
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