[Groop] Groo Treasury

[Alexander Durnan]

We understand, Mark.  We all have to make deals with devils in our lives.

 I liked the alphabet themed series.  Though you are correct there are too 
few issues per book.  I also don't like the time periods between them, 
although you were on a roll for 4 or 5 for a while there.

The R volume should be "The Groo Renegade" if a villain like Taranto is  in 
it.   Otherwise call it "The Groo Retrospective"



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Evanier" <evanier at gmail.com>
To: <groop at groo.com>
Sent: Friday, 17 April, 2009 22:23
Subject: Re: [Groop] Groo Treasury


> Alexander Durnan wrote:
>
>> Why continue the Treasury into a series?  Wouldn't it just be easier to 
>> reprint Groo Adventurer, Bazaar, etc.?  Honestly I'd prefer a nice 
>> hardcover on the lines of the Marvel Masterworks series.  The Omnibus 
>> editions of those get you like 30 issues per book!  Groop members would 
>> probably buy it, public at large might be a gamble.
>
> ME: We spent a lot of time discussing how to handle the reprints, and Dark 
> Horse has some firm ideas about what the marketplace wants.
>
> The current plan is to continue the "alphabet" series but not to reprint 
> the early ones.  THE GROO PARADE will reprint the next eight issues of 
> Epic and, assuming it sells decently, it will be followed by an "R" volume 
> with the next eight.  (Sergio and I are having a disagreement over what to 
> call the "R" volume.  He wants to call it THE GROO REGIME and I want to 
> call it THE GROO REPRINT.)
>
> There are a number of reasons not to reprint THE GROO ADVENTURER, THE GROO 
> BAZAAR, etc.  One is that that page count is not really cost effective 
> these days.  That's why THE GROO PARADE will have eight issues instead of 
> four.  If we stuck with the four issue paperbacks, they'd look overpriced 
> next to the eight issue ones.
>
> So the early stories will get reprinted in the TREASURY series.  The first 
> volume will have all the pre-Epic stuff plus a bunch of new features. 
> Sergio is drawing a six-page introduction with him and me in it.  There 
> will also be some early GROO pages that were printed overseas but not in 
> America.
>
> Assuming the first TREASURY sells well enough to warrant continuing the 
> series, we'll reprint the early Epic stories sequentially.  I know most of 
> you have all those but the average reader doesn't.  We think it will help 
> the sales of new GROO projects if average readers have an easy way to buy 
> all the back ones.
>
> I know this is not ideal and part of me feels bad about, in essence, 
> asking some of you to buy reprints of stories we've already reprinted. But 
> I also like the idea of getting the whole GROO saga in print and this 
> seems like the best way to do it.
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