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There's No Escape from the Legion...or This Book (Crock)
There's No Escape from the Legionor This Book - Crock Author:Bill Rechin, Don Wilder Collection of classic Newspaper Comic Strips, copyright early 1980s. — Crock was created in 1975 by Bill Rechin, Don Wilder and Brant Parker, and remains the greatest and longest-running parody of the Foreign Legion classic, "Beau Geste." The genius of the off-the-wall strip is that it manages to turn the est... more »ablished conventions of the Foreign Legion melodrama, as well as our own social norms, upside down. A group of luckless legionnaires reside in a fort in the middle of the barren desert under Commandant Vermin P. Crock, a tyrannical leader who is known to “hang people by their thumbs for the silliest mistakes.”
Crock chronicles the adventures of Commandant Crock and the assortment of hilarious characters stationed at this grim, desolate outpost, including the cowardly Captain Poulet, the simple-minded Maggot, camp follower Grossie and the ever-astray Lost Patrol.
Crock is distributed worldwide by King Features Syndicate to more than 200 newspapers.« less