BIG MAN PLANS-- Bloody Good!

[matt levin]

Hello—

This was one I didn’t know much about, but I’ve become a deeply appreciative The Goon fan, and I’m glad I followed good sense. I wondered a bit about the opening, which echoes “Ronin’s” tagline, “If you intend to die, you can do anything,” but it fits. Everything fits. I see some Eisner, I see some Elder, some Kurtzman, and even (in coloring) some Templesmith, and everything fits. We get a town full of Mean, and a man even meaner and then we’re given his background, and everything fits. This is already just such a satisfying comic.

As a Goon reader, I was prepared for the raunch and gore; I don’t like to see it, but I can read past it. And ordinarily I so dislike comics-narration I just skip it, despite ordinarily being a compulsive word-reader. Here it’s spare and necessary, consistent in tone, but as does most first-person narration, begs the question, “Who’s he talking to?”

Y’know what I like--? The way the title can be read as if saying, ‘the guy named Big Man is making plans,’ and/or as if, “these are the plans of the big man.” And now they’ve told us (in the end-pages) there’s a third way to see it: as a kind of plan—“Big Man Plans”. And…it all fits..! Highly recommended for grown-ups reading comics.

[Ragdoll]

That was pretty crazy. I liked it, good art and fun story.

[Cinnamon]

I just read it, and liked it. It was a pretty good first issue. It set the tone and scene of the comic, it introduced a sympathetic backstory for the lead character, it set up the story.
The art was quite nice, too.

I'm definitely buying the other issues.

[Oskar Von Strange]

Aw dammit! I totally forgot about this. I won't be around the shop till the end of the month. Hopefully they have an issue left.

[DIVINITY]

This was pretty good, I caught notice from all the great reviews, glad I gave it a shot...

[skyjumpermike]

Pretty awesome. Lots of great one-liners.

[Ragdoll]

I just read #2, this comic is *&^%ing brutal. It reminds me of Jason Aaron's Image titles, with splashes of Garth Ennis.

[earl]

I got to say I really like the whole "grindhouse" style of comics that are coming out like this one and Southern Bastards.

I've read the first issue of Big Man Plan's three times.

[Seedzington]

I have had this first issue for a week, I am going to read it today finally

[Seedzington]

Holy Crap epic stuff in issue one. Definitely going to read the rest. So this is just a 4 issue mini-series or will there be more later?

"I'm here to rage and get respect"

[Seedzington]

Issue #2

Brutalllllllllllll

In a great way!

[Cinnamon]

Issue 2 felt kinda short. Very brutal, though.
Hopefully issue 3 has more story.

[Seedzington]

Issue 2 felt kinda short. Very brutal, though.
Hopefully issue 3 has more story.

Oh it definitely was. Hopefully we will find something out about this letter in the next one.

[The Fn Man]

Love the book! I am hoping for some creative revenge in the third issue.

[friendly-fire-press]

Yeah, I'm digging this mini series. Great writing, killer artwork and an insanely cool hero ... looking forward to the next 2 issues