Comic Review: The Goon- Once Upon A Hard Time- Part 3 of 4- Killer be Killed

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.

He believes in pain, trauma, revenge and death.

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.

That’s how violence works, the more you put in, the more you get out. Adding more violence to a violent situation doesn’t make things better. It makes things worse.

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

Song review: Face Down, by Killer Be Killed- Brutal call to arms

Face Down-Lyrics:

Fraud, you're not a friend to me, a drag on society
A tool of bureaucracy and I can barely tolerate you fuckers around me
Nightstick to the fucking face, how does that shit fucking taste?
Just to survive is never enough, we need to call the bluff

Disarray in the nation, disarray degradation

Face down, face down, face down to the ground

Brutality against brutality, the real face of the enemy
Keep them pigs away from me, abuse of power and authority
Blacklisted calamity, forceful rape entity
Devils in uniform, you'll wish you were never born

Menace to society
Cop shoot cop mentality
A cancer of a broken land
Traitor to the common man
Invaders of your privacy
Nothing is sacred reality

Kill or be killed

Wrong it is, where this started
Wrong it is, from the beginning

Bleed from the eyes, rot from the inside out
Inverted skies hide in the underground


Band: Killer Be Killed
Song title: Face Down
Album: Killer Be Killed
Released: May 9th 2014
Label: Nuclear Blast

Youtube video. Listen to the song here. PLAY LOUD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHLeyF8lj2o

Wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Be_Killed_(album)




Inverted skies do indeed hide in the background, as everything that should be good, was good, has become bad. A cancerous mainstream promoting vice as virtue, congratulating themselves as they pocket dirty cash, stolen from the carcass of the poor, of the dispossessed, of the cheated, of the never had a chance. Rage is what we need. Spit it in their faces. You are uniformed traitors to mankind. Morals do not disappear; they do not count for nothing. Everything done under law, under power of uniform and the gun will come back on you as your time of reckoning is at hand. No order following pigs. No abuse of state sanctioned authority. No hiding in fat, lazy, stuffed, bloated cowardly bureaucracy. Face down in the ground, the masses rise as one, in knowledge, in righteous anger, taking back what was stolen from them, by you. You, the corporate face of crime, you the career whore, you the happily assimilated, happily lazy, happily indifferent, happily ignorant. Face down, face down, face down to the ground. We are waking from our vaccinated slumber, and it’s time to kill or be killed.

Song rating: 10/10 (Let’s kick this revolution off with righteous, passionate angry music)