The Goon Looms at The Top of My List
Creator, Writer, Artist: Eric Powell
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
For those of you listening to the Podcast you know how I can go on and on about Eric Powell’s The Goon. Issue #16 just came out and it really had me spellbound. The deal is that in issue #15 The Zombie Priest at the End of Lonely street has resulted in some very desperate times, no spoilers there, just look at the cover of #16. Right off the bat in the first page you get to see something that I’ve grown accustomed to when reading Powell’s book. The artwork shows two very distinct contrasts, realistic in the soft shades of one of the characters, and the 1930’s Little Annie style of Frankie. The whole book is spoken in this first page; it’s wild, trippie, and holds no bounds. The book is fresh; if you’ve been looking for something in every medium of Comic Book and haven’t yet found it, then give Goon a try. I used to be one of many people who looked at the book and just never gave it a shot because it didn’t really look all that interesting. But it’s sustenance, it’s heart is in the story, and the characterization, and that’s not something you can get from just flipping through the book at the comic book store, pick it up, you won’t be disappointed. It may turn out that it’s not your cup of tea though, but you won’t know that for sure unless you give it a shot. If you like hard hitting action, and the Classic Monsters of early cinema, or the B-Movies of the 50’s then The Goon is the book for you because it has brought the great pieces of the past to our oddball present. Keep in mind when picking up this book, it comes out once every two months. Now before you start bitching keep in mind that Powell does EVERYTHING on the book, writing and drawing, and he is pretty much left alone by the editors of Dark Horse.
