[Groop] From ME

[Mark Evanier]

First of all, THE GROO TREASURY has not gone to press.  It's not even 
close to going to press at the moment.

If and when it's close to happening, I'll announce it here and on my 
blog.  Until then, assume it's far in the future.  I'm sorry about that 
but that's the way it's going to be for a while.

Regarding all this political stuff: I think some are reading too much 
into a story we just thought would be funny...and which over-all, seems 
to be getting even better reaction than we usually receive.  The thing 
which may be driving some of the changes some of you perceive in GROO is 
that when you do a four-issue mini-series, you need more of a story -- 
and a more important story -- than when you do one standalone issue. 
You can do one story about Groo just stopping people from crossing a 
bridge.  For a four-issue arc that will be collected into one book, you 
need to come up with something a bit deeper.

That said, after we finish HOGS OF HORDER and GROO/CONAN, the next 
planned project is the twelve-issue GROO: FRIENDS AND FOES, which may 
have some continuity throughout but which will be more like twelve 
standalone stories.

In the meantime, I don't know why you're discussing Communism or 
anything of the sort.  GROO is still a humor comic and we're still 
trying to make people laugh.  If we don't succeed with you, okay.  That 
happens.  Sometimes, it's tough to keep ahead of the news.