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[Comic Review] “The Goon: Once Upon A Hard Time” #3
Reviewed by Brady Steele. A good deal of insightful backstory comes into view in The Goon: Once Upon A Hard Time #3. Confessions from mad men and almost mad men cover the history and motivations of the key players to our little macabre saga herein. A lot of lines come into focus here and it’s great to see where it’s heading towards.
WRITTEN BY: Eric Powell
ART BY: Eric Powell
PUBLISHER: Dark Horse Comics
PRICE: $3.50
RELEASE: 20 May 2015
Creator Eric Powell knows how to be astute and horrifying all on the same page this month. With a bag full of heads and a heavy heart, we seeThe Goon unload his burdens upon one of his enemies. It’s fascinating to see. It feels like going to confession at church…until he throttles Don Rigatti to death.
Another great aspect of this issue is readers get to see the flipside to The Goon’s long-time foe, The Zombie Priest, also allows readers insight to his history. We see his motivations and ultimate rationalizing for fighting so hard to harness the power of this supernatural town everyone covets so much. It’s pretty chilling stuff to see how far he will go to attain power.
Both characters have been through so much, it’s easy to see how similar they are now. It feels like they are both at the end of the line. Powell seems to have found colors again and it’s effective and evocative in all the right places. There is plenty of gruesome action in this chapter. Will next month BE the final outing for The Goon? It looks like there will be plenty of showdowns and hopefully some great despair that seems to have become a sidekick to this series.
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IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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