Powell's part was good but short stories from other authors where just dull.I think it's been proven by now that Goon is only good when done by Powell himself.Powell's part(continuation of Labrazio storyline): 4 starsShort stories: 2 stars

Tato kombinace vážného tématu prodaného velmi nevážně rozumně funguje. A to píši i přesto, že jsem měl hrozně rád toho čistě zábavného Goona.

The main story is good enough - it's clever, it's mad, it's appropriately dark.What killed the book for me were the "added stories" - really, that Shit should have never fone through an editor. Boring, trying too hard to do something they are not too able to do...bah, baaad.

The Goon is a pretty big deal these days, and with good reason. The first four or five Goon collections are aces. But starting with Chinatown and moving forward, my interest in the series has waned pretty sharply.I missed a volume in-between Chinatown and this one, but the storyline is pretty easy to pick up. The problem is, while everyone's tragic backstories work pretty well when they're parceled out amidst all the usual hoopla of a Goon comic, when they take center stage and start to become t...

This was pretty great in the fact that we learn why so many evil things are attracted to Horse-Eater's Wood and the town. I also really appreciated the short stories in the back for their ability to uplift the mood of the readers; especially with how bleak everything has become. It was a much needed reprieve from the darkness of this tale.

(4,0 of 5 for this pretty action-packed Goon with some hosted short stories)The Goon books are a collection of fours issues. FOUR. That's short. So the story is chopped like meat for goulash. I'm in binge-reading now, so this is not actually a problem, but if I would be "to date" reader that would annoy the hell out of me. But still, you got a cliffhanger every 80-100 pages. And this time is the lower number because of short stories of hosting artist. They're not that good his time, but I liked

Things are getting darker for Goon and his friends. Till now most problems he was able to solve by swinging of the fists, now some real bad ass enemies are appearing that will push him to the limit. Whole book is more gloomy than previous one, there is less humor and more sadness, but it works for me. And this is probably just setting for upcoming sh*tstorm...

Half of this book continues the main Goon story with Labrazio returned somehow from the dead and waging war on Goon and co. with Mr Wicker and a host of former baddies Goon's tangled with in tow. The second half is made of short stories from other artists and writers about Goon and his world. First half is excellent with Eric Powell's writing becoming as brilliant as his artwork. There's a wonderful, if tragic, story of how Horse-Eater's Woods came to be and the war for Lonely Street begins in e...

Good stuff and a couple Goon stories written and drawn by people other than Powell included, but it seemed kind of strange to put them in the middle of a 3-part arch. Kind of distracting just when you want to find out what happens in the end.

I mean, c'mon: it's The Goon. If you don't love this series by now, you won't, and if you're trying to start here? Don't; go to the beginning.

Some strong story progress and character moments.

I wish Powell was the sole writer for Goon. When he gets in his stride with a story arc his writing is dark, menacing and hilarious. If James Ellroy wrote L'il Abner while huffing ether it would be a lot like Goon. Unfortunately I feel that the other writers that fill this volume (and many of the previous collections) are actually a detriment to the overall quality. They read like what they are, padding. I understand how difficult a monthly deadline must be and the necessity to fill a comic, but...

The Goon: Those That Is Damned was an entertaining graphic novel. The writing's great, the art's great, and the storyline is just fun to read. Looking forward to the next Goon graphic novel, The Goon: Calamity of Conscience. This graphic novel seemed like an intro into another storyline. The Goon declares war on Labrazio.

The whole town is cursed because of a dreadful event that happened long ago. The curse has brought all the powerful forces in town: the priest, twin shapeshifters, a wicker man, witches, even the Goon. The Goon considers leaving everything behind to try to find happiness somewhere else, but he can't leave his friends behind, even when one of them betrays him. He gets punished severely.

Goon si drží svůj temný tón a dělá to podle mě dost dobře. Atmosféra houstne a temné síly nabírají na síle. K hlavnímu příběhu jsou připojeny ještě krátké goonovské povídky od jiných autorů, které se vracejí k původní pošahanosti Goona a vcelku se vydařily.

Picked this up because Volume 9 starts in the middle of the whole Labrazio-back-from-the-dead saga, and I couldn't quite remember what had happened or what the little baby-monsters had to do with it. The parts of this book that Powell wrote and illustrated are more of my favorite kind of work from him--the more somber and disturbing stuff. There's a sort of 'origin story' for Horse-Eater's Wood and why the town is cursed, and then the first parts of the Labrazio resurrection story. A big portion...

Hlavní příběh mě bavil, i jsem se zasmál, ale závěrečné povídky jsou hloupý a ošklivě nakreslený :(

Amazing art, good story. The Will Eisner-inspired first issue giving more back story to The Buzzard is wonderful, as is the gruesome ending to the third issue. It's too bad there's only four issues in this volume--getting halfway through the book to see a slew of back-up stories was a letdown, but those stories are surprisingly fine, especially the connected stories at the end. They provide a lighthearted counter to the increasingly dour main story.

while some books that start silly make a mistake in taking their own mythology too seriously, The Goon instead took a great book and made it brilliant in doing so. the story of the characters has become so rich and clever and brutally haunting, it rivals Hellboy in it's mystic history. Whe death of another enjoyable character and the first sense that there really is a cohesive and dangerous rogues gallery, the combination of vol. 7 and 8 made me realize The Goon should be ranked as one of the be...

Five stars for the main story; three stars for the filler stor(ies). Goon universe mythology is getting darker and more depressing each volume, but it totally draws me in. It makes more and more sense, and is like the best noir - a train wreck of inevitable sadness that you just can't stop watching.I'm sad that Powell was so ga-ga about his heroes and fellow writers/illustrators that he'd let them soak up so much page count on stuff I could really care less about. Some of the writers don't have