Goon Squad #7

By Jonathan L. Howard

Listen to the tale the dead man tells.

Ian Mears is the longest continuously serving member of Manchester's GOON SQUAD. As the Revenant he has fought crime, confronted supervillains, and had more limbs severed than he cares to think about. Whilst regenerating his most recently lost right arm, Ian lapses into a recuperative coma, hoping that he will not dream.

It is a vain hope. He dreams of the man he used to be when he was merely mortal and all the happier for it. It is a disjointed dream, and parts of it may not be the truth, but he must listen and watch through his own unreliable narrative the events leading up to his death and rebirth as a cynical, embittered zombie.

GOON SQUAD is an ongoing "prose comicbook," the other episodes of which are available at this retailer.

Cover by Lara Margarida.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jonathan L. Howard
• Release date: Nov 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311160683

Jonathan L. Howard

JONATHAN L. HOWARD is a game designer, scriptwriter, and a veteran of the computer-games industry since the early nineties, with titles such as the Broken Sword series to his credit. He is author of Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, Johannes Cabal the Detective, and Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute, as well as the YA novels Katya’s World and Katya’s War. He lives in the United Kingdom with his wife and daughter.

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GOON SQUAD #7

Dead Man Tells Tale

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Jonathan L. Howard

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Goon Squad #7 Dead Man Tells Tale

by Jonathan L. Howard

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GOON SQUAD #7

Dead Man Tells Tale

Greater Manchester Police were in no great hurry to publicise that, when the city desperately needed aid against the homicidal tulpa known as the Exterminating Angel, their dedicated SpecT team – the Goon Squad – had been upstaged by some bloke with nice hair and a big pair of knives.

They had no idea where the man had come from, how he had defeated the Angel with such apparent ease, and then where he had subsequently sloped off to. All they had was that Gilbert Sutton had noticed a name tag on the man's very expensive looking armour that read GALAHAD. No database showed any hits for a Talent using that name since the Western Knights – a wandering SpecT team that served the West Country from Land's End to Bristol and Bath themed upon the Knights of the Round Table – had a Galahad on the strength back in the 'fifties. He, however, had died of a stroke in 1998, and his powers had consisted of speed and the ability to conjure up a glowing sword of force. Nobody had ever complimented him on the glorious sheen of his hair.

The Goon Squad was left with no answers, one member damaged and unresponsive to summons, one with an arm chopped off, and another in hospital with a shallow chest wound and concussion. It was an humiliating conclusion to a high-profile case, and the press was making concerned noises about the Squad's competence that dallied more than a little on the schadenfreude side of