Groo meets Tarzan

 Last year, Dark Horse published their Groo meets Tarzan mini series, as a sort of follow-up to their previous Groo meets Conan. The art for the Tarzan parts is again by Thomas Yeates, one of the few comics Greats in the business. The art is wonderful, as always, though I'd be satisfied with a straight Tarzan story, and I'm not that much into Sergio Argones. 

Part of the the comic is devoted to Argones adventures getting to a comic con, with lots of jokes in regard to him being mistaken for the writer of spy vs. spy. 

The Tarzan portion of the tale has Tarzan and Nkima clashing with a group of villainous Arab slavers. Groo and his faithful Rufferto journey through what seems to be Argones version of Africa, where they encounter the Africa of ERB, and the two (or four) of them team to defeat the slavers. 

This tale is spread out over a total of four issues. What's really notable is that the land of Pal-ul-don plays a large role here, but it's largely behind the scenes. Riding on Tantor's back Tarzan and Nkima pass through the lost land in the first issue, and we see two sauropods and a gryf in the background. That's about it though, until the issue four. 

Now you might notice that the picture above seems to promise a plethora of dinosaurs. When I saw it, I reminded myself that it might be misleading, as unfortunately it proved to be. 

There are very few dinosaurs therein, though Tom Yeates makes very good use of those that are. 

Tarzan and Groo don't even reach Pal-ul-don, as the cover suggests. What happens is that Tarzan misleads the slavers into following the wrong path. The villains think they've escaped justice, only to find they're trapped in a dinosaur-infested valley, where they're devoured by a garth (or Pal-ul-donian t-rex).