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Post by DubipR on May 30, 2014 12:08:29 GMT -5
Has anyone read The Goon ?
Yes. It's a blast. Excellent art and fun stories with a dark sense of humor. I'd recommend picking up the "Fancy Pants Editions" as they collect stories thematically rather than in order of publication. (Although I think the first one is fetching ridiculous prices these days.)
Just making sure about the reading order. I've been trying Hellboy and the reading order is sort of jumbled a bit.
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Post by fanboystranger on May 30, 2014 12:16:08 GMT -5
Yes. It's a blast. Excellent art and fun stories with a dark sense of humor. I'd recommend picking up the "Fancy Pants Editions" as they collect stories thematically rather than in order of publication. (Although I think the first one is fetching ridiculous prices these days.)
Just making sure about the reading order. I've been trying Hellboy and the reading order is sort of jumbled a bit.
With Hellboy, the major stories are in order, but the one-offs tend to be collected when there's a good number of them. To be frank, the one-offs tend to be the better material, but they also tend to work well as stand-alones, so if you don't need read them in chronological order to understand the thrust of Hellboy's overarching story.
The Goon tends to return to stories at different intervals. For example, the complete story of Dr Alloy occurs over a number of non-sequential issues. I found it better to read the stories in the collected "Fancy Pants" editions than in chronological order.
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Post by DubipR on May 30, 2014 12:33:42 GMT -5
Just making sure about the reading order. I've been trying Hellboy and the reading order is sort of jumbled a bit.
With Hellboy, the major stories are in order, but the one-offs tend to be collected when there's a good number of them. To be frank, the one-offs tend to be the better material, but they also tend to work well as stand-alones, so if you don't need read them in chronological order to understand the thrust of Hellboy's overarching story.
The Goon tends to return to stories at different intervals. For example, the complete story of Dr Alloy occurs over a number of non-sequential issues. I found it better to read the stories in the collected "Fancy Pants" editions than in chronological order.
But with Hellboy, you go from Seed of Destruction to Wake the Devil, but they reference some coffin story that's in the third trade, along with all the one-shots. Oh well, comics and their continuity....
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2014 14:49:20 GMT -5
Has anyone read The Goon ?
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. The artwork is absolute top notch. Eric Powell is one of my favorite illustrators of the modern age. They're fun reads, not too serious, but occasionally delivering a moral or message as well. One I remember was a retelling of the founding of the Ladies Garment Workers Union after a fire in a factory killed a bunch of garment workers who were in a warehouse with the doors chained shut to prevent them from taking breaks. But even when it's hitting you with a depressing story, it's a fun comic. |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2014 14:50:13 GMT -5
Goon giving the boot to the Big Two's indulgences is hilarious ("Plots based on primary colors rule!"). Oh yeah, I remember that. That was actually hilarious, and it had me on Google confirming it after |
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Post by thwhtguardian on May 30, 2014 16:10:29 GMT -5
With Hellboy, the major stories are in order, but the one-offs tend to be collected when there's a good number of them. To be frank, the one-offs tend to be the better material, but they also tend to work well as stand-alones, so if you don't need read them in chronological order to understand the thrust of Hellboy's overarching story.
The Goon tends to return to stories at different intervals. For example, the complete story of Dr Alloy occurs over a number of non-sequential issues. I found it better to read the stories in the collected "Fancy Pants" editions than in chronological order.
But with Hellboy, you go from Seed of Destruction to Wake the Devil, but they reference some coffin story that's in the third trade, along with all the one-shots. Oh well, comics and their continuity....
I've made a pretty good list continuity wise and I'm actually thinking of starting a Hellboy reading thread in the not too distant future so I may be of help. |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 30, 2014 17:12:13 GMT -5
Has anyone read The Goon ?
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. The artwork is absolute top notch. Eric Powell is one of my favorite illustrators of the modern age. They're fun reads, not too serious, but occasionally delivering a moral or message as well. One I remember was a retelling of the founding of the Ladies Garment Workers Union after a fire in a factory killed a bunch of garment workers who were in a warehouse with the doors chained shut to prevent them from taking breaks. But even when it's hitting you with a depressing story, it's a fun comic. That would be the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911. Are all the Goon stories set in that era? |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2014 17:16:05 GMT -5
Roughly, but it's an alternate universe. Prohibition era, sometimes with an old world feel, sometimes with a 40's gangster feel. Stagecoaches and sedans
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Post by Polar Bear on May 30, 2014 17:39:42 GMT -5
Has anyone tried any of Dynamite's pulp-era heroes, such as Spider, Shadow, Doc Savage, or Green Hornet? Are any of those worth the paper & the time? I'm getting more interested in that era as I age.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 30, 2014 18:21:53 GMT -5
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Post by hondobrode on May 30, 2014 18:36:43 GMT -5
Has anyone tried any of Dynamite's pulp-era heroes, such as Spider, Shadow, Doc Savage, or Green Hornet? Are any of those worth the paper & the time? I'm getting more interested in that era as I age. Hey Polar Bear !
I've tried them and liked them a lot.
It's cool more people are coming around to those simpler characters.
Supposedly a Doc Savage is in the works. I think that could really be hot.
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Post by hondobrode on May 30, 2014 18:37:45 GMT -5
Has anyone read The Goon ?
Love the Goon !
If the Thing and Popeye had a love child....
Can't believe this isn't as big as Hellboy. What a great movie it could be.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 30, 2014 19:18:13 GMT -5
Has anyone tried any of Dynamite's pulp-era heroes, such as Spider, Shadow, Doc Savage, or Green Hornet? Are any of those worth the paper & the time? I'm getting more interested in that era as I age. I read a couple scattered ones.. they were decent, but not good enough for me to want to pay full price for them. There was something a bit off about them to me that I couldn't put my finger on. |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2014 19:26:35 GMT -5
Has anyone tried any of Dynamite's pulp-era heroes, such as Spider, Shadow, Doc Savage, or Green Hornet? Are any of those worth the paper & the time? I'm getting more interested in that era as I age. The Shadow main series was hit or miss, the Ennis arc to launch it was kind of meh, I really liked the Gischler penned issues that followed, but then Roberson took over and it went back to meh. The Shadow Year One by MAtt Wagner was really good though. The main Shadow series is cancelled now, but they are doing a bunch of minis and one shots. Chaykin returned for a Shadow mini called Midnight over Moscow, only the first issue of which is out, it looks really good, but I have not read it yet. There is a Ron Marz penned one shot coming called Shadow over Innsmouth mixing the Shadow and Lovecraft that has my interest piqued as well. I picked up the first 3-4 issues of the new Doc Savage, and it was kind of meh too, but then Chris Roberson is writing and I find a lot of his stuff very meh, Not bad, but not quite good enough to hold my interest enough to want to keep paying $3.99 a pop. Same with his Masks mini too. Just kind of meh. I tried the first couple of issues of Green Hornet, and they were good, but I am not a huge fan of that character-the attraction was more Waid than the character and it just didn't interest me enough again for the $3.99 cover price. I did not get the Spider series (our shop never ordered it) but I heard a lot of good things about it. -M |
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Post by thwhtguardian on May 30, 2014 19:51:08 GMT -5
The Spider was fantastic, probably the best modernization of a pulp hero I've ever read and the art was fantastic.
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