Writer and artist: Eric Powell
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Released: 20th May 2015
The Goon doesn’t believe in making the world a better place.
His life philosophy is laid out in this book, and it’s a philosophy that I cannot, and will not endorse.
The idea is that you enter life as an innocent. You are a passive creature, things happen to you, horrible things done by horrible people, and your needle of tolerance goes up, and up, and up, until it hits breaking point. At this point you start smashing back, doing the horrible things that were done unto you, to people you deem responsible for your sorry, sad, depressed state of affairs.
This mindset makes the massive assumption that you personally have no impact on the situation that you find yourself in. It assumes that you are good, passive and disconnected from your own life. You sit (like a Goon) and watch as things happen to you, and when things finally get too much, you strike out with violence.
How about doing something before you reach your breaking point? How about standing up, and changing your situation before you get to the point where you act out like a crazy man? How about purposefully putting some good out into the world, therefore lowering that metaphorical needle of tolerance?
That’s what a sane person would do, but this Goon character is far from sane. He’s a crazy man who is looking to justify his rampage of violence, and this is how he does it. He puts the blame on others, he justifies his violence as righteous revenge, when all it really is, is violence begat from violence that will inevitable lead to more violence.
It’s US/EU foreign policy in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan. It’s Israel and Palestine. You cannot solve issues of violence with more violence, and when you try to do so you are never going to succeed. You can argue that we will finally have world peace when everybody is dead, or in a (new world order) prison, but does anybody other than a goon really want that?
The Goon-Once Upon A Hard Time Part 3 of 4, is about a man who wants to leave nothing in the world but, ‘Mangled heaps of p*** and blood.’
He is a man of our times for sure.
Goons don’t want to make the world a better place. They have been hurt, and they want to hurt back.
Goons join armies and strap guns and bombs to themselves. Goons are hurt little children that strike out at the world, leaving a trail of blood in their wake. They kill, and they are killed. Nothing changes, and the world repeats, repeats, repeats.
Rating: 9/10 (Beautiful art, brutal comic)
Check out this awesome 'Killer be Killed' video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg3mhoHjdXE
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