So we did this four-issue comic book series, Groo Vs. Conan, and it was collected into a trade paperback and it's also been nominated for an Eisner Award which I bet we won't win. "We," by the way, is Sergio Aragonés, Tom Yeates and Yours Truly with colors by Tom Luth and Lovern Kindzierski. If you yearn for a copy of the paperback collection, you can order one here.
And if for some reason, you want the thing in a hardcover edition…well, I recently learned that our publisher, Dark Horse Comics, is making up a limited number that will be sold at the Comic-Con International in San Diego. "Recently" may in this case mean yesterday. If they told me about this before, I somehow managed to miss it.
Anyway, they're only making 300 copies and I know of no plans to make any more or to sell them anywhere else. Then again, remember that I didn't know about this until yesterday so that may not mean anything. They're $30.00 apiece and there's a limit of five to a customer per day. They will be selling them at the Dark Horse booth but better still, Sergio will be selling them at his table in the main hall, which is at space I-7. If you buy it from him — same price! — he'll gladly sign it for you immediately and if I'm around, I will too. (And if you feel like trucking across the hall, Tom Yeates should be there somewhere, too.)
Please don't write me and ask me where you can get one. You now know as much about this as I do, maybe more. If you're desperate to have a copy and you won't be in San Diego, see if you can find someone who will be there to buy you one and get it autographed. And if you are there and you want one, I'd head for Sergio's table first thing when you get there because I have a feeling this puppy will sell out rapidly. I intend to get one and…well, I don't like to brag but I think Sergio's is giving it to me at half-price.