and Sergio Aragonés
Via The Beat, Dark Horse Comics have announced “Groo Meets Tarzan,” a crossover series by writers Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier, artist Thomas Yeates, colorist Tom Luth, and letterer Stan Sakai. As the title suggests, the four-issue mini will see Aragonés’s Conan pastiche, Groo the Wanderer, team-up with Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Lord of the Apes.
“From the late 40s and early 50s, my imagination was filled with Verne, Salgari, Dumas and Burroughs,” Aragonés says in the press release. “Working with Tarzan was one of my dreams; Mark, Thomas, thank you!”
Evanier quipped, “I think it says something that in a story that involves Groo the Wanderer, Tarzan of the Apes, pirates, dinosaurs, wild animals, Sergio Aragones and me, [that] the two least believable characters are Sergio and me.”
The series marks the first outing for Groo the Wanderer and his creators since 2017’s “Groo: Play of the Gods.” The barbarian buffoon was created by Aragonés in the late ’70s, and debuted at Pacific Comics in 1982: the series were typically written and drawn by Aragonés, and translated into English by Evanier (Luth and Sakai have also been contributing to the series since its debut.) Dark Horse have published the comic since 1998, and Yeates previously helped pencil the crossover “Groo vs. Conan” in 2014.
As well as the main story, the series will feature the return of the back-up strips starring Groo’s dog Rufferto.
“Groo Meets Tarzan” #1 goes on sale on July 1.
