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Eric Powell's publishing company, Albatross Funnybooks, is launching a brand new title in December, to accompany The Goon, Tank Girl and the like Jake Smith's throwbaxploitation comic book, Blood Force Trauma #1 Steve Mannion has another Fearless Dawn oneshot While Eric Powell has been busy in lockdown, both writing and drawing the new issues of[...]

Eric Powell has a bunch of titles scheduled for November 2020 with a few spilling over into December, including the launch of a new Hillybilly mini-=series written and drawn by him, The Treacherous Treason Of 12-Toe Maggie… alongside a new issue of The Goon, also written and drawn by him, Tank Girl and a little[...]

Ahoy Comics had Billionaire Island #2 Cover B by Darick Roberston, It's Alive had Breathers #3 Cover B, AC Comics had FemForce #189, Albatross Comics had Goon #11 Cardstock Variant Cover, Scout Comics having both covers for Midnight Sky #5, Source Point had Touching Evil #6, and AWA get the first issue of Devil's Highway all[...]

Albatross Funnybooks, Eric Powell's publisher of The Goon returns to publication tomorrow with The Goon #10, and has lined up a bunch of comic books This includes Tank Girl moving from Titan Comics to Albatross Funnybooks, a Hellboy crossover with Steve Mannion's Fearless Dawn and an unannounced Steve Mannion comic book for later in the[...]

In January, Eric Powell's Albatross Funnybooks is putting out a Goon spin-off with The Unholy Bastards, from Tom Sniegoski and Scott Brown, with Powell doing the cover Here's the listing from their January 2020 solicitation Just the one… UNHOLY BASTARDS VS THE FUTURE ONE SHOT NOV191382 (W) Tom Sniegoski (A) Scott Brown (CA) Eric Powell From the pages of[...]

We just ran the October solicitation for The Goon #7 and the second Goon Omnibus But it's the upcoming two issues that currently concern us We don't know how, we don't know why, though we may suspect who But the upcoming issues of The Goon #5 and 4, will be published out of order. This Wednesday[...]

This trailer is… interesting. I remember when Goon came out, it was pretty well recieved Nothing ground breaking, but a fairly good natured if not lewd sports comedy Now over five years later, we are gearing up for a second The film is out March 2017, and this new trailer, posted on JoBlo Movie Trailers, is just[...]

How much, how limited, and how many you are allowed to buy, you naughty flippers you… The Goon 3D Print  $25.00 Limited Edition of 300 5 per person per day Halo UNSC Pelican Dropship Replica – SDCC Exclusive Bronze Edition $50.00 Limited Edition of 400 1 per person per day   Games of Thrones: Robert Baratheon Crown – SDCC Exclusive Mini Replica $60.00 Limited Edition of 400 2[...]

We've run a few break out pieces for the new Hellboy comic and Chuck Palahniuk talking Fight Club 2, but Dark Horse had plenty to discuss in their ComicsPRO presentation to comic book retailers… Dark Horse was keen to show off the The Art Of He Man and talked about strong orderdahead of its April launch, and tied the[...]

These signs are winging their way to a comic store near you soon, featuring the very recognisable tone of Eric Powell's The Goon explaining store policy and procedures to its customers in a rather gruff voice. Even if that language might have to be slightly amended for fear of offending the littlest eyes. Though it's nice to[...]

Suiciders from Lee Bermejo and DC/Vertigo on the front… …and Eric Powell's Goon from Dark Horse on the back While the order form… …is all abut the webcomic Help Us! Great Warrior by Madéleine Flores debuting in print from Boom! The look of the new Diamond Previews for December…   [...]

What was originally meant to be a celebration of the fifteenth year of Eric Powell's The Goon was changed last minute when the creator himself had to call out Stepping in quickly were some of Dark Horse's funniest and most disturbed Alex de Campi of old school style horror title Grindhouse, Evan Dorkin of[...]

Which recently entered the Eighty Dollar Club on Bleeding Cool due to an early appearance from Eric Powell's The Goon  And he's got a boxful He writes, The guy who put out the book, Chuck Angell, sent me a case of the book back in the 90s because they didn't sell so well at the time[...]

Dark Horse Comics are insistent that Eric Powell's The Goon is heading back to schedule More to discover at ECCC, apparently, but here's the Jack Davis cover of the oneshot (June) and an example page… Dark Horse Comics are insistent that Eric Powell's The Goon is heading back to schedule More to discover at ECCC, apparently,[...]

Take your frustrations out with a diminutive moustachioed fellow with a red cap rather than picking on the real thing. You wait a whole year for Goon #44 and you need a translation dictionary to read it Although "procreation" in such a scenario may not need much translation and suddenly gives me flashbacks to Neonomicon… Itty Bitty[...]

by Dirk Manning It's been several months since DC comics cancelled their long-running iconic horror comic series Hellblazer, and despite the comic's replacement with a much-more spandex-friendly title in Constantine, the fact of that matter is that numerous fans of the darker and more adult-themed stories the now-non-existent Hellblazer provided have been left with a hole[...]

Along with Wolf Bill there's the Lincolnstein, Baracula, the Ronmy, the Phantom of the White House (JFK), the Monster of the Watergate Lagoon, Zom-Bush, and the Spirit of 76 The men behind the madness of this company are Jason Edmiston, J Anthony Kosar (a contestant from the show Face Off) and Ken Kelly Check out[...]

Devin T Quin writes from San Diego Comic Con for Bleeding Cool; The line for the Goon panel snaked around itself five times, and the Con staff had to squish all in attendance to the wall to prevent breaking fire codes I've been going to Goon panels since they started having them, back when Dark Horse[...]

Bleeding Cool ran the cover to Goon #39 a while back, and I made a point to buy it as a result Then, when picking it up, I noticed something else that made me smile quite a lot The publisher's logo. Go on, lets take a closer look Yup, it's a plaster.   The whole book is full[...]

Next week sees Eric Powell's Goon hit that regular schedule, the death of Boba Fett (again), Aquaman, the last Blackhawks, the new Popeye, the beginning of Marvel's VS, the transformation of Nick Fury, the final issue of The Twelve, the Footprints graphic novel, more Crossed Badlands, both my Captain American Idol and Scienthorlogy, after Diamond[...]

We'll have turned into Newsarama before you know it… In no particular order, here are the top ten reasons horror comic fans should have attended this past weekend's WonderCon in Anaheim: Eric Powell– Just last year a friend of mine introduced me to Powell's cult favorite The Goon and my life has forever since changed[...]

Here's a look at those selling for between $100 and $200… and there's a lot of Walking Dead, Goon and Hellboy about… Walking Dead #5 by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore from Image Comics recently selling for $171 Walking Dead #19 hitting $170 – that would be the first appearance of Michonne pushing this one up so[...]

Here's the cover to The Goon #39 by Eric Powell, from Dark Horse Comics. Something tells me it was designed with Bleeding Cool in mind. And also why it just turned up in my inbox. Here's the cover to The Goon #39 by Eric Powell, from Dark Horse Comics. Something tells me it was designed with Bleeding Cool[...]

It may have goals and teams and rules and all the other things that make competitive sports about as interesting as watching a nonagenerian walking to a corner shop to a pint of skimmed milk, but it also has violence, and blood, and… did I mention the violence? It essentially amounts to people rushing round[...]

FableWatch: Mark Buckingham's pencils for a double page superhero spread from Fables #104. WarlordWatch: Dynamite expands their Warlord Of Mars franchise

Goon #2 by Eric Powell for Avatar Also going through a bit of a boom period, with issue 1 going for north of $200 And it's knocking on down the rest of the issues Original price $3 Current market price $110. 6 Evil Ernie #2 by Brian Pulido and Steven Hughes for The first appearance[...]