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<DIV>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:</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/10-952/The-Evil-Dead-TPB">http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/10-952/The-Evil-Dead-TPB</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Unless they are including the <STRONG>"Groo 25th Anniversary
Special"</STRONG> with sketchbook extras inside the <STRONG>"HOE"</STRONG>
trade, it would make sense for the $18 price. </DIV>
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<DIV>But the site only lists the trade as having 112 pages....</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 10/22/2008 4:00:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
publicporter@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Wow -
what is going on over there at Dark Horse?
<DIV>Cover price for the new Groo TPB is $17.95?!?!</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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?</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Feeling very disgruntled about this and very interested to here others'
takes on this,</DIV>
<DIV> ~ Porter.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Oct 22, 2008, at 12:00 PM, <A title=mailto:groop-request@groo.com
href="mailto:groop-request@groo.com">groop-request@groo.com</A>
wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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of Groop digest..."<BR>Today's Topics:<BR><BR> 1. New Groo
Trade Cover! (Yodazone@aol.com)<BR><BR>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'"><B>From:
</B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'">Yodazone@aol.com<BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'"><B>Date:
</B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'">October
22, 2008 11:43:26 AM PDT<BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'"><B>To: </B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'">groop@groo.com<BR></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'"><B>Subject:
</B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'"><B>[Groop] New Groo
Trade Cover!</B><BR></SPAN></DIV><BR><BR>
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<DIV>The new cover to the "Groo Hell on Earth" Trade is up at the Dark
Horse site!</DIV>
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<DIV><A title=http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/15-047/Groo-Hell-on-Earth-TPB
href="http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/15-047/Groo-Hell-on-Earth-TPB">http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/15-047/Groo-Hell-on-Earth-TPB</A></DIV>
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