Groo vs. Conan #3

The penultimate chapter of this four-issue Dark Horse crossover delivers a cover that says it all: the rotund, grinning Groo stands triumphant over a fallen, dark-armored Conan, sword raised high while a panicked crowd of onlookers — including what appears to be a startled giraffe — scrambles in the background. It's a wonderfully absurd collision of two very different barbarian traditions, rendered with real energy in the cover art by Sergio Aragonés and Thomas Yeates. Fans of sword-and-sorcery comedy won't want to miss this 2014 gem as the rivalry between history's most catastrophically unlucky wanderer and the mightiest warrior of the Hyborian Age reaches a fever pitch.