(4,3 of 5 for the Union trick and the hosted short stories)After the slight disappointment with the previous book the Goon is back on track. I liked this one, it was fun, especially that gipsy vendetta and the union twist. I also enjoyed that few short stories by a various hosting artist at the end. Next stop - The Chinatown. I hope for some unravelling of the often mentioned Goon's bitter history with it!

I love the Goon.I think it's absolute genius. Powell found a gap, an extremely cool gap, and filled it in. That said, in my opinion this is one of the weaker contributions to the series. It just seemed really short and a bit under inspired compared to the other graphic novels. Maybe there's only so much you can do with a concept like the Goon or maybe the honeymoon's over for me. Either way don't miss out on this series, it's a lot of fun.

After reading 5 volumes of the Goon I have come to realize that this is the top 5 indie franchises to date. A great balance of comedy and simple story telling that keeps me coming back and wanting more.

Satan's Sodomy Baby was quite a disappointment, but issue 16 and 17 were incredibly fun featuring The Priest in a hilarious fashion.

"Every day is a monotonous exercise in futility. I wake up every day and wonder, what's the point? Happiness? Is that even attainable? Or is it frivolous thinking to even believe it exists? Are we all blindly searching for a fantasy? Are we drowning rats going down with the ship? Is that what life is? What are we living for? Love? Searching for it makes you miserable and expecting it to be returned only kills your soul and makes you sick and black inside. But without it there's only loneliness.

Buzzard is back!!! I love how these series keeps introducing interesting and funny characters (like Willy), build up mystery and tease things yet to come.

The Goon (birth name unclear) was once an orphan who worked at a circus, being raised by his strongwoman Aunt Kizzie. When his aunt was killed by the gangster Labrazio, the Goon killed him in revenge, then used the mob boss’ notes to take over the man’s gang. Initially, he pretended to be only Labrazio’s enforcer while the boss himself was “in hiding”, but eventually he admitted that he was the new boss.While The Goon and his best friend Franky are not exactly good people, the other mob in town

Another fun volume with great art, great creativity and a unique story telling style. I'm a fan.

The introduction to volume 4 talks about Powell's then newfound fame and its possible negative influence on his subsequent work. Well, that negative influence made itself apparent to me, at least, in this, volume 5. I loved the Rumpelstiltskin gloss on the Priest, laughed out loud at the labor union strategy for fighting a gypsy curse, and found the two-page parody of Charlton Heston and The Ten Commandmentsy‒The 13th Commandment‒to be exceedingly funny (and what happened to commandments 11 and

I may be in the minority of Powell fans when I say that I think Powell is best when he is working in a more serious vein. Of course, "serious" is relative when you're talking about a comic that weaves together the worlds of the mafia, zombies, black magic, hillbillies, and assorted monsters. But when he manages to keep the foul-mouthed, 3-stooges-on-a-Viagra-bender slapstick to a minimum, Powell delivers powerful storytelling, with intriguing characters. And whether he's working serious or slaps...

A serious story is starting to form underneath all of the humor. The comedy isn't gone, but the connective tissue between the stories is stronger and more compelling.

I love The Goon. It just keeps getting better, funnier, more irreverent, more violent, weirder, freakier and more fun. The Buzzard's back, bring a powerful tool to aid Goon in his fight against the Nameless Preacher, which only makes things worse. We learn about the Nameless Preacher's history, how to beat a gypsy priestess (don't say the Union never did nothin' for ya') and there is a killer and hilarious reference to Hitchcock's The Birds.Powell's art and storytelling are as superb as ever, pr...

Another dumb yet witty, incredibly funny offering from the master of mob-horror-slapstick, Eric Powell. Great art too, and some of my favorite side characters are included, including the slackjaw con-man, and Lagarto, the Spanish-speaking mutant lizard butler. Mr Powell possesses a very fertile imagination indeed...

The Buzzard is back and on Goon's side. The priest who is creating the zombies on Lonely Street has a more disturbing story than any other character it would seem. He as always an evil character and was punished for it on both the real world and the world beyond where he was born. It left him mentally scarred and thirsty for revenge and destruction. Goon's dwindling of his zombie horde makes him a desperate man.The story has some magical elements as well, with a gypsy that is able to resurrect s...

Reading the Goon has become something I now do when I feel like reading something fun and familiar. Whether it’s the art or the characters or the whacky tones coupled with the gothic madness and gallows humour and noir presentation, I love this series and every book, forgive the cliché, feels like meeting old crazy friends again.In Volume 5, the story of the Zombie Priest is given centre stage as he tries to stage a massive coup against Lonely Street. The only thing stopping him? Goon, Franky, a...

Ho hum, another gorgeously illustrated tale of zombie-punching and hard-boiled humor by Eric Powell. How does he do it? Moonshine, probably. Read The Goon

Another delightfully twisted volume. This one prominently features the Buzzard, which is an deliciously morbid character (or finds morbid things delicious, since he's cursed to feed upon the dead). It also has a giant lizard, ghosts being unionized, gypsy curses, and some abominable offspring of a zombie. Pulpy fun!

The Goon series has been getting progressively darker. Oh, there's still plenty of the trademark crude humor, but Eric Powell has been slowly cranking up the horrific content. "Wicked Inclinations" starts off with a light tale of Gypsy curses and unionized ghosts, then swerves down Lonely Street where the Zombie Priest makes a gruesome and painful sacrifice to call up some seriously nasty mojo to send against the Goon and co. And some might call this overkill, but he follows that up with zombie

Hilarious as always. These goons live in a world that I'd hate to try to eke my miserable existence in, but that's a freakin riot when you know they're as immortal as cartoons always are. Why I oughtta find my trusty peashooter and make what-for with them slackjaws what don't know they's dead.The Moses film parody 2-pager *alone* is worth the price of admission. And now that I realize the author writes, pencils, inks and colours every page himself I'm in utter awe. Anyone who does such an irreve...

Just another awesome graphic novel in The Goon series. "The Goon: Wicked Inclinations" (volume 5) was exciting and full of surprises. But do not let minors get a hold of this graphic novel. It contains a controversial short story. Back in the day, it started an anti-comic book movement. Other than that, I loved it. More depth was added to the characters, and the storyline became more complicated and chaotic.