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Deadpool‘s battle with his evil twin comprised of a collection of his former body parts continues. Now that there are two Deadpools, his antics have gotten (even more) out of control. Something has to be done. Enter Captain America.
I’ve stayed out of this Deadpool/Evil Deadpool arc until now, but with Cap’s appearance I decided to give it a try. The early fight between Deadpool and Captain America is actually kinda fun, as Cap doesn’t believe any of the Merc with a Mouth’s nonsense about an evil twin. Deadpool even goes so far as to use Cap’s shield against him.
The rest of the comic about Evil Deadpool taking a job to kill a kid, and regular Deadpool (using his weird-ass logic) deciding to kidnap a totally different kid at gunpoint to draw out both his evil twin and Captain America, is certainly bizarre, but isn’t anywhere near as much fun. Hit-and-Miss.
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Sporting a serious death wish, Deadpool seeks out to antagonize one of the few creatures in the Marvel Universe who might be able to kill him – The Hulk (the original one, not one of the dozen or so other versions Marvel has running around now).
As an added incentive Deadpool has bought himself some nuclear bombs from the black market in hopes that they’ll help the Hulk decide to give Deadpool the one thing he wants – death.
There’s plenty of action in this issue including some very humorous panels involving Deadpool stuffing grenades down the Hulk’s throat before detonating them. Although the rest of the art is fine, I’m not sold on Bong Dazo‘s take on the Hulk which looks more like a giant green Bane on serious Venom bender than the Hulk.
As an idea, this one works fine for a single issue, although I’m not sure we need to see it continue for another month. Still, there’s fun and plenty of insanity to be had here. And isn’t that what you want from a Deadpool comic?
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Deadpool, Spider-Man, and Bruce Banner are stuck in an alternate dimension. And, not surprisingly, it’s all Deadpool’s fault.
This issue picks up the threads left hanging from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #38 and focuses primarily on Deadpool’s discovery of a kindred spirit in Death Wish and his attempts to take down the world’s premiere super-villain – Death Mask. (Think Deadpool, but more lucid, not quite so crazy, who grow up to become Doctor Doom.)
Alternate reality stories are a dime a dozen (just ask the X-Men who did this yet again just a few months ago). That said, this is an entraining enough story that doesn’t force you to read the previous annual to know what’s going on. There’s plenty of Deadpool insanity, including an uncomfortable bonding moment between Spidey and Deadpool.
It’s not for everyone, but Deadpool fans should get exactly (no more, no less) what they expect. Worth a look.
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It only took me a couple pages of this one-shot to remember why I stopped reading Deadpool Corps. Sometimes stories featuring these characters can be fun, but sometimes they can be excruciating to read.
The issue is broken into four separate stories surrounding various Corps members. Kidpool attempts to join in on robot fun with the other kids (mildly entertaining), Lady Deapool and Zombie Deadpool go to counseling (I wanted to stab out my eyes), and Deadpool himself is presented in a serious cheap Frank Miller style noir that has far less gravity than it should given the choice of main character and the rest of the antics on display here (all around bad idea).
Although the Kidpool one is passable (barely), the only one of the four stories that I can actually say I enjoyed was the insanity of Dogpool going against Sunny the Sentry Dog, written by James Asmus. Yeah, that was fun. The rest I could give or take (or line a birdcage with). Hit-and-Miss.
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