The Goon: Fancy Pants Edition

    (Dark Horse, 2005, 2008, 2010)
™ and © Dark Horse Comics, Inc.

The Goon doesn’t easily fit in one genre or another, and this hardcover collection is a perfect example of why. The funniest comic to see print in years also tells some pretty heart-ripping tales of abandonment, desolation and cursed despair. Take the five best years Universal Pictures ever had before World War II, put them together, and you might get the pastiche that is The Goon.

While other mishmash experiments frequently reek of “It’s Charlie’s Angels plus Kangaroo Jack as filtered through Blue Devil!” skull sessions, writer/artist Eric Powell’s masterful work is many facets of the same gem. That gem just happens to be the tale of a Prohibition-era thug in a world overrun by monsters, magicians and metallic, mad scientists. Here, Powell reconfigures a number of issues from their original publishing order to create a linear storyline of the Goon’s chronology.

— Brendan McGinley
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  • 1/HC
    #1 Hardcover
    Hardcover Edition with cover by Eric Powell
    Oct 2005
    Cover: $24.95
    W: Eric Powell  ·  A: Eric Powell
    Collects The Goon (Albatross) #1-2 and The Goon (Dark Horse) #1, 3, 5, and 9
    No copies available
  • 2/HC
    #2 Hardcover
    Hardcover Edition with cover by Eric Powell
    Jan 2008
    Cover: $24.95
    W: Eric Powell  ·  A: Eric Powell
    Collects The Goon (Dark Horse) #2, 6, 11, 12-13, and part of #14; Signed by Eric Powell
    1 copy for $40.00
  • 3/HC
    #3 Hardcover
    Hardcover Edition with cover by Eric Powell
    Jul 2010
    Cover: $34.99
    W: Eric Powell  ·  A: Eric Powell
    Collects The Goon (Dark Horse) #20-31
    No copies available