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<P nd="6">As the panel began in earnest, the topic switched to the status of
Groo projects:
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<LI nd="7">Evanier has completed a script for the “Groo the Wanderer’ <A
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target=_blank itxtdid="3471433">movie</A> and Aragones has completed artwork
for the move, but further progress is currently tied up in negotiations.
<LI nd="8">A Groo/Conan crossover has been in the works and all involved have
been supportive and enthusiastic. Editor Bill Stout was hospitalized for a
while (he’s fine now), and a new editor has come onboard, bringing the project
back to square one.
<LI nd="9">Dark Horse wanted to reprint “Groo the Wanderer” collections in a
digest-sized format, but Aragones and Evanier objected, as they felt the art
wouldn’t work as well in a smaller format. They announced that Dark Horse will
continue to publish the collections in the trade paperback format, with the
next volume being named “The Groo Parade.”
<LI nd="10">Dark Horse will also be collecting “Magnor,” a superhero book that
the two did for Malibu in the early ‘90s. According to Aragones, Malibu
originally approached the duo with a proposal to create a superhero that could
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target=_blank itxtdid="3495836">video game</A> property – not exactly the
two’s normal approach. The two put together a fun book that wasn’t quite what
Malibu had in mind, but the company put together a marketing push, even flying
Aragones to Philadelphia to sell signed copies of “Magnor” #1 on QVC! Long out
of print, this new collection was prompted after Dark Horse Editor Diana
Schutz read a Spanish collection of these issues. Evanier joked that he hopes
that this collection will help reduce the number of questions he gets about
his “Magnor” vanity plates. </LI></UL></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at <A title="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=http://www.aol.com" href="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaol%2Ecom" target="_blank"><B>AOL.com</B></A>. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>