The Goon, Volume 8: Those That Is Damned
What makes the book hum, however, are the add-ons: seven short stories by hands other than Powell's, who all, like the contributors to the tributary anthology Dwight T. Albatross's TheGoon Noir (2007), are inspired to the heights of soiled giddiness by the outrageously mordant horror-gangsterparody that is The Goon. Most of them like more color and light than Powell does, apply evenmore caricatural figure stylings, and write wilder insult and body-function humor, at least in thiscollection. Four of the shorties are episodes in the priceless bait-and-switch saga of good-guy-zombieWilly's stolen pecker. The Goon remains one of the best things to blame on, eventually, HarveyKurtzman's MAD. (August) --Booklist --Booklist