Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973 EAN: 9781593074562 ISBN: 1593074565 Label: Dark Horse Manufacturer: Dark Horse Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: February 15, 2006 Publisher: Dark Horse Sales Rank: 63569 Studio: Dark Horse
Product DescriptionGiant man-eating eyeballs from another dimension, mad scientists, rampaging killer robots and the Ghost of Christmas Past - nothing out of the ordinary in the world of The Goon. Come take a traipse down Lonely Street with Goon and his pals as they defend their burg from all manner of monstrous disasters and ghouls in The Goon: Virtue and the Grim Consequences Thereof. This volume collects five magically dark and delightfully hilarious tales of chaos and daring-do, following the exploits of the man known only as The Goon as he fights his through a horde of killer robots and even creatures from another dimension to help save his sometimes friend and ally Dr. Hieronymous Alloy from a mysterious disease. But there are plenty of bumps along the way, ultimately landing the Goon in Cade's Island Penitentiary proving once more that no good deed goes unpunished.
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Rating: - Football, Carols, Spacemen, Dr. Alloy, and a few unruly kids
More great Goon stories, each telling a tale of woe while still being highly amusing at the same time.
Eric Powell continues to plumb the depths of his twisted mind and Thomas Lennon, of Reno 911 fame, joins in with his own amusing tale at the end of this tome that is a written piece rather than a graphic adventure.
We get Goon as a football player, spaceman (well, extradimensional traveler), Ghost of Christmas Present whose primary job is (still) to beat the crap out of the Zombie Priest, ... Read More
Rating: - Retro Spacesuits, Street Corner Zombies, & Pschedelic, Flesh-Eating Eye: What More Could You Want?!
Eric Powell's Virtue and the Grim Consequences Thereof collects issues 9-13 of the Dark Horse series, and it's some of the best Goon stories ever. It starts with the story of The Goon's football team called The Fishcanners, a group of guys whose greatest virtue is that they'll kill you for a potato cake. And if they'll do that for food, imagine what they'll do for grid-iron pride. It ends up being a bittersweet story of hope and tragedy, all ultimately playing into the hands of the Zombie Priest. It contains ... Read More
