[Groop] Groop Digest, Vol 68, Issue 9....Re: Groo HOE Trade

[Yodazone at aol.com]

Yea, that price is pretty high for collecting only 4 issues of a  
mini-series.   The other new Trades from Dark Horse that collect 4  issues are available 
at around $12.95.  Like this one for  example:
 
_http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/10-952/The-Evil-Dead-TPB_ 
(http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/10-952/The-Evil-Dead-TPB) 
 
Unless they are including the "Groo 25th Anniversary  Special" with 
sketchbook extras inside the "HOE"  trade,  it would make sense for the $18 price.   
 
But the site only lists the trade as having 112 pages....
 
 
In a message dated 10/22/2008 4:00:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
publicporter at gmail.com writes:

Wow -  what is going on over there at Dark Horse?  
Cover price for the new Groo TPB is $17.95?!?!



 
That's $5 more expensive than the last 4-part TPB "Death & Taxes".  With each 
of the four  individual issues costing $3, it is also $6  more expensive than 
the sum of those issues.


What the hell?  Really?  It costs THAT much more to compile and  produce a 
single softcover book (of previously released material, no less)  than it does 
four separate short-run comic books?


I have been a fan and constant reader and collector of Groo since 1985 -  5th 
grade. With each successive price increase I have sucked it up - more  pages, 
less advertising, better quality stock... - but I find this to be  completely 
unacceptable.  This works out to a 38.5% increase - that is  not even in line 
with the rise in economic costs.  As it is primarily  collectors who by TPBs, 
in other words, those who like me have been collecting  Groo for a long time, 
jacking the price like this appears to me to take  complete advantage of 
collector's loyalty.  It is complete BS.


Feeling very disgruntled about this and very interested to here others'  
takes on this,
 ~ Porter.




On Oct 22, 2008, at 12:00 PM, _groop-request at groo.com_ 
(mailto:groop-request at groo.com)   wrote:


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From:  Yodazone at aol.com

Date:  October  22, 2008 11:43:26 AM PDT

To: groop at groo.com

Subject:  [Groop] New Groo  Trade Cover!




The new cover to the "Groo Hell on Earth" Trade is up at the Dark  Horse site!
 
_http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/15-047/Groo-Hell-on-Earth-TPB_ 
(http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/15-047/Groo-Hell-on-Earth-TPB) 
 







 
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