Comic Culture Vol 2 #2 Interview, Dec 1994 FIXME Broken link) He loved it. Did you find the hidden message?
In the early issues of Groo, Mark Evanier or Sergio would put in hidden messages. One was, this was one of the early issues of the Epic series, if you take the first letter of every sound effect you get something like “Give Jack Kirby his artwork back,” Or sometimes it would just be a hidden message. It was just a thing that we did, like an inside gag. But then fans caught on to it and it got to the point where we had to do a hidden message every issue. Mark just got tired of it and we stopped doing it around issue fifty or so. When I did Usagi eleven of the black and white series, with the Groo parody well, it wasn’t a parody, it was more of a tribute . I also put in a hidden message. If you look at the poem, take the first letter of each line of the poem it will spell a hidden message. Also I did that because Sergio had the back up story in that issue, with his Catnippon series. That was a series that he was thinking about doing, but he’s so busy that I find it amazing he even has ti
