Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973 EAN: 9781593070861 ISBN: 1593070861 Label: Dark Horse Manufacturer: Dark Horse Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 88 Publication Date: May 05, 2004 Publisher: Dark Horse Sales Rank: 360880 Studio: Dark Horse
Product DescriptionDark Horse Comics brings you the origin of Eric Powell's The Goon, the earliest stories published for the first time. The Zombie Priest has just set up shop on Lonely Street and intends to build an undead army, and the Goon's the only man who can stop him. His early battles with the undead are mixed with stories of the Goon's youth, as we meet his circus-freak family and learn how he came to be the head of a notorious crime family. Also included in this volume is a look at the creation of the Goon and his world with a special 'Evolution of The Goon' sketchbook section.
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Rating: - Hilarious, violent fun
If you aren't offended by senseless violence, this may be one of the funniest books you'll ever read. This is Eric Powell's earliest work on his signature masterpiece, The Goon, and I can hardly recommend it highly enough. The violence is far too cartoonish (and funny) to be taken too seriously -- imagine a real-life Popeye unleashed in the classic EC Tales of the Crypt universe, and you get some inkling of what I'm talking about. Popeye. Forget Olive Oyl and all that nonsense -- I'm talking about ... Read More
Rating: - Rough and Tumble
I picked up Nothin' But Misery and My Murderous Childhood as my intro to the Goon not long ago and bought pretty much everything else immediately after.
This is the rougher cuts, the older independent stuff, true enough, but is well worth a look if you have check out any of the other Goon books or if you are just starting to examine this muscle bound mobster with (sorta) a heart of gold.
The art is still good here and I love the twisted way Eric Powell's mind works. The characters are ... Read More
Rating: - Better than people think
This volume of the Goon isn't the Goon proper; it's the preceding issues released independently while Eric Powell was still small-time before he got picked up by Dark Horse.
Everyone, including Powell himself in the introduction to this book, will tell you it's not that great, that it isn't quite up to snuff, or that it just wasn't getting it right. I disagree. Maybe it's just that Powell himself admitted it wasn't his best work, and the hordes of loyal fanboys followed obediently in slandering ... Read More
Rating: - If you are reading in order, keep reading!!!
As with most writers, the first stuff is not necessarily the best, and please, take this into consideration when reading The Goon. This book was first published prior to Dark Horse picking it up.
When it was finally picked up DH went back, and colorized and touched up, and this is the product of that. This is what started it all, and I insist you continue to read this series if you haven't.
Powell, I feel, is one of the best writers on the market today, and this book is a testament ... Read More
Rating: - Okay, As Title Says, "Rough"
Perhaps worth picking up for novelty value alone, The Goon is a comic about the hugely overmuscled, eponymous mob enforcer, who is a one-man last line of defense against the new, undead organized crime threatening some nameless dive of a town in some nameless, misbegotten part of the world. The Goon has to bludgeon back the forces of zombiism, vampirism (of a decidely effeminate sort), giant fish monsters and corrupt G-Men, and does it all with decidely simple-minded mayhem.
- Hilarious, violent fun
- Okay, As Title Says, "Rough"
