At your local comic book shop this week — March 9, they tell me — is the trade paperback edition of Groo Meets Tarzan! This collects the four-issue mini-series of the unlikeliest crossover in the history of comics — The Lord of the Jungle, who's used to hanging out with apes, encounters a man with considerably less intelligence than any of them!
It was written by Sergio Aragonés and me. It was drawn by Sergio Aragonés and Tom Yeates. It was lettered by Stan Sakai and Adam Pruett. And it was colored by the hardest-working man in comics, Tom Luth, who upon finishing this most arduous of all assignments, decided to retire from coloring comic books. That is not a joke. He really did and we wish him well in his further endeavors. (The nice thing about coloring Groo is that once you stop doing it, absolutely any other job you get is a step up.)
This handsome paperback contains all four issues, the covers that appeared on them, the Rufferto back covers that appeared on them and a new, not-published-anywhere-else introduction written by Yours Truly. Copies may not be available on Amazon or in conventional book stores (the kind that foolishly don't carry comic books) for another month or so. For more info on where to get yours, consult this page.
And hey, while I've got you here: Various places on the Internet where one can buy copies of the mini-series — like the listing below on Amazon at this moment — will tell you that the first issue is "Book 1 of 15," the second issue is "Book 2 of 15" and so forth. There are so many laughs and moments of chilling suspense in Groo Meets Tarzan that it will probably feel like fifteen issues for most of you but we managed to cram all that into four.
So there were only four issues, not fifteen. Sergio and I intend to conduct an exhaustive investigation and find out who keeps making this mistake. This person will be severely punished right after we get through with whoever it was who didn't give this comic five stars.