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(The) Goon Volume 14: Occasion for Revenge

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  • Goon, The - Volume 14: Occasion for Revenge



    Published by: Dark Horse Comics
    Released on: Apr. 3, 2015
    Writer: Eric Powell
    Artist: Eric Powell
    Cover artist: Eric Powell
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    Dark Horse Comics' latest collection of Goon comics covers issues 46 through 49, a four-part story titled “Occasion For Revenge” and is a real downer of a story. Poor Goon just gets shit on time after time, and all he wants to do besides run his racket is to protect the people in the town. He no longer has a beef with the priest, but instead is using him to help him against his newest adversaries: the group of priests that the priest originally belonged to before he branched out on his own.

    One of the priests, called The Arab, sees the town and its curse as a great place for their operations; the death of Goon would make the town even more valuable to them as his soul is such that it will make the town a greater source of power for the priests. As anyone else besides them knows, killing Goon is not an easy task. He's got his backup, like Frankie and Mudd, and zombie guy Nagel, but it won't be enough. Knowing he'll not win the war on his own, he's forced to reach out to another crime family, the Rigatti clan. The thing is, they want something in return and part of that involves Goon hiding some piece of shit senator's son until the crap he pulled in the city gets ironed out. People want the guy dead, but Goon agrees to hide him for a while.

    On the meanwhile side, the priests continue to wage their war against Goon and his buddies, including newcomer Ramona, a lady who professes her love for Goon, as he does for her. With all that is happening to the tortured man, at least he's got her to come back too. As long as she's in his life, there's a gleam of hope for the guy. Also meanwhile, Kid Gargantuan, an associate of Goon's and someone with a big grudge he will never let go of, is tasked with babysitting the guy they are protecting, and learns a piece of info that forces Goon to take some drastic action, which works with other occurrences to set up the next story arc, another four-part story titled “Once Upon a Hard Time.”

    A LOT goes down in this tale, and in the end all one can do is feel sorry for Goon and all that he has on his shoulders. It seems his muscle, his pension for violence, and his luck aren't enough to combat the forces playing against him, and when done reading this collection you may find yourself a bit down in the dumps. Poor Goon really gets run through the ringer and he doesn't come out of this tale with a very good outlook on his life or his future.

    Per the norm, Eric Powell has produced a story that pulls no punches and is visually a very impressive bunch of pages. His dark humor, his fantastic art style, and his intense characterization of Goon make for one heck of a great read. He changes up the coloring scheme for this run, leaving out most of the colors and producing a drab and dismal look to his pages, and that just piles on the depressive feeling you may walk away from after pouring through this one. And that's just helping in saying what an effective technique Powell applied to his pencils to give this book the gut-punch it seems to go for. This is not light-hearted Goon material; it's darker than normal but every bit as excellent as the previous 45 Goon issues preceding it. This book, really the entire series, comes recommended without hesitation.





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