Amazon is now cancelling advance orders for a book called The Groo Treasury, which we announced some time ago as a thick reprint collection of early tales of Groo the Wanderer, the silly endeavor I do with Sergio Aragonés. This is the same reprint collection for which some online merchants were asking $999.00 to sell you a used copy, even though the book has never been published. Anyway, the order cancellations have prompted a flood o' e-mail my way asking whassup?, what happened?, will it ever come out?
Here's whassup?: To reprint stories of that vintage, one needs to either have the original film of the color separations or one needs to scan printed comics and do lotsa touch-ups and tweaks. Printing from the original film is preferable — the quality is better — and lucky for us, we have the original film to all those issues. Unlucky for us is that we haven't been able to locate it all just yet. It's here. It's just not easily findable. So that's the reason for the delay. Once it's all located, the book will be scheduled again and I'll announce it here.
Our apologies…but don't you think it's kinda funny? Most comics have trouble getting their new issues out but their reprints, since they take less time, come out right on schedule. Only Groo has more trouble publishing reprints than new stories…