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Recommended Reading

If you read my piece on The Goon from a couple weeks back and still aren't reading, all I have to say is, "What the Fuck!?" I'm not going to say anymore. I'll just leave you a fine piece of dialogue from this gem:


Goon: I'm not calm. I'm bored. Let's go smash somethin' with a pipe. Studebakers. Let's go smash some Studebakes.

Franky: Okay. But it would be more fun if we was drunk. Holy crud, Goon. Look! It's one of those circus dogs what walks on two legs!

Goon: That's a werewolf, idiot! Let's smash him with a pipe!

He's Back!

After about a year since the last Goon story, nearly two years since an issue was released, and close to two and a half years since there was a regular schedule, The Goon made its return yesterday with an issue devoted to beating on sparkly vampires and tween girls.

Anyway, The Goon is one of my favorite comics so I just wanted to give you all a heads up in case you missed this. If you're not reading, pick it up. It's new-reader friendly. If you want to go back, the beginning's a fine place to start (actually I started at the beginning of the Dark Horse series, I've never read the early stuff reprinted in vol 0-1), but the absolute best stories are the Chinatown Hardcover, and the 12-issue arc from Goon Year in 2008 (all of those are collected in vol 6-9).

Oddly enough, Criminal Macabre recently returned from a two year hiatus. A few months back, Steve Niles self published the Cal MacDonald prose short The Y Incision and brought the character back to comics in the Free Comic Book Day Criminal Macabre/Baltimore split.

Where am I going with this? Well two years ago these were two of my favorite books, and I'm hoping 2011 brings these titles back to their former glory. Next month the two characters share a one-shot. I know those things are never as awesome as you imagine. But fuck. I'm looking forward to it.