Albatross Funnybooks

Take a spin down Lonely Street in this huge, pulpy comics collection of mob bosses to undead ghouls—and the man who fights them all.From mad scientists to interdimensional chickens with teeth to a heart-breaking betrayal, Lonely Street comes under all manner of threats both tragic and hilarious in this second omnibus volume of The Goon.A mysterious new figure has entered the crime scene and is taking out the Goon’s business operations one by one―systematically intercepting shipments, murdering contacts, and alienating friends. As Goon struggles to keep the city’s organized crime under his control, his mind is haunted by the memories of his darkest moments . . .Collects The Goon Volumes 4–6 and full of bonus material!

Reviled by comic book fans as a witch-hunting zealot who stirred up a panic among the parents of America for his own self-promoting purposes, he was also a renowned psychiatrists who, among other accomplishments, opened a clinic in Harlem for disadvantaged African-American patients and played an important role in the desegregation of the nation''s schools. Believing that murder could be abolished through a proper understanding of the mental and social roots of criminal violence, he took a genuinely humane approach to some of the most notorious homicidal maniacs of his time, while simultaneously exploiting their stories for his own commercial ends. Acclaimed true crime author, Harold Schechter, and multiple Eisner award winning cartoonist, Eric Powell, present a graphic novel that takes an unbiased look at this flawed and enormously and complex man-whose obsessive dream of freeing the world from violence nearly murdered the comics industry.