Review: Glad I bought #2 - marvelously peculiar!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
While I also found this a bit short for a stand-alone intro piece, I am so pleased I bought installment #2. This is definitely a story worth following & the "prose comic" format is great fun. Intriguing characters, nifty setting, well worth the .99 per story.Howard's quirky descriptives pay the price of admission by themselves & his marvelously twisted creativity has invented a Manchester I've quite enjoyed visiting. Hopefully the Mischievous Gods of Speculative Fiction will bless us with further 'Goon Squad' issues!I do recommend other US readers try this now, in its current Kindle format with dictionary, unless they have a good grasp of Britishisms, as I've gone to the dictionary with 'Goon Squad' #s1-3 a couple times to get the full flavor of the story (and my Grands were from the UK so I'm no stranger to some of the slang).