Hellboy
gets knocked on the head, and upon regaining consciousness finds
himself at a different location, where he meets a zombie-killing
palooka known as
the Goon. After another knock on the head, Hellboy finds himself back
where he was when he received the first blow to the head. The
exploits of Powell's adventurer the Goon take place in the present
day, but in a very surreal world with 1930s trappings, and therefore
likely occur in an alternate reality to the Crossover Universe.
Hellboy must have somehow been transported to the Goon’s universe
from the CU. The two would later cross paths again at the end of the one-shot Criminal Macabre/The Goon: When Freaks Collide. Cal McDonald recognized Hellboy, so they must have both come from the CU, and other crossovers in the Criminal Macabre comics and prose stories support this.

The Crossover UniverseTM is a companion blog to the books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1-2 by Win Scott Eckert, and the forthcoming Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1-2 by Sean Levin. Material excerpted from Crossovers Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2010-2014 by Win Scott Eckert. All rights reserved. Material excerpted from Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2014-present by Sean Levin. All rights reserved.
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This was the first issue of the Goon I ever read. I bought for the Hellboy appearance. Being unfamiliar with the Goon's world it really turned my head.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, it peaked my interested and I started collecting the trades. It is a really unique series to say the least.