GOON SQUAD #4 is now up and available at all the Smashwords outlets (Apple, B&N, etc) and on Kindle. It is entitled Exterminating Angel, and is altogether a darker story than was the jolly hijinks of recreational arms-dealing that was the debut story, The New Girl. I like to vary the tone of stories; keeps things fresh.

Once again I have been very lucky to get a terrific artist to do the cover, in this case Ian McQue. He has portrayed Talos, the GOON SQUAD’s great, hulking, robotic team member (so big I had to shunt the GOON SQUAD logo to one side to give it room), and done a beautiful job.

TALOS, art by Ian McQue

Ian excels at making a machine look like something that has actually been engineered, and took my fairly plain original idea and made it look like it had been across a drawing board and through a workshop. I love the arm joints; you can almost smell the hot metal and oil of the precision lathe that cut them. You can find more of Ian’s work at his blog here: http://mcqueconcept.blogspot.co.uk/ or buy at his shop: http://ianmcque.bigcartel.com/

Well, the first draft of #5 is already written, continuing the Exterminating Angel story. The issue even has a working title, Famous in Strange Ways. That will be coming out at the end of May, and — all being well — the GOON SQUAD SUMMER SPECIAL 2014 should be out in early June.