Prelude to Deadpool Corps

Deadpool Corps (Collected Editions)

by Victor Gischler, Rob Liefeld (Illustrator), Whilce Portacio (Illustrator)

Collects Prelude to Deadpool Corps #1-5. Witness the birth of the most important super hero team ever in a universe-spanning event! Wade Wilson has been tapped to save the Universe, and to do that he’s going to need help - from the DEADPOOL CORPS!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction, Comic Book

132 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 29, 2010

About the author

Victor Gischler is an American author of humorous crime fiction.
Gischler's debut novel Gun Monkeys was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel Shotgun Opera was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster.

He has also writes American comic books like The Punisher: Frank Castle, Wolverine and Deadpool for Marvel Comics. Gischler worked on X-Men "Curse of the Mutants" starting in the Death of Dracula one-shot and continued in X-Men #1.

Gun Monkeys has been optioned for a film adaptation, with Lee Goldberg writing the script and Ryuhei Kitamura penciled in to direct.

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, what do we have here? A rather silly concept (a team made up of different versions of Deadpool from across the multiverse) full of rather silly jokes. The plot is almost non-existent, the jokes are very much of the ‘low hanging fruit’ variety and nothing especially interesting happens. Still, I’m giving the story 3 stars as some of the jokes did make me laugh.

As for the artwork, well, each of the five issues collected here was illustrated by a different artist, so, to take them one at a time:

1. Rob smegging Liefeld. How this guy has made a living drawing is totally beyond me. I’ve literally seen small children with a far better grasp of the fundamentals of draughtsmanship. 1 star.

2. Whilce Portacio. Is it me or has this guy’s work gone downhill since the early ‘90s? I mean, he’s not Liefeld-bad but still, pretty rough. 2 stars.

3. Philip Bond. Now you’re talking! Bond is a great cartoonist; I’ve liked his stuff since he did Tank Girl (if you’ll excuse the expression). 4 stars

4. Paco Medina. Solid if journeyman-like draughtsmanship, with an unfortunate tendency towards cheesecake in places. 3 stars

5. Kyle Baker. What the Hellfire is this ugly as sin CGI rubbish? It’s like somebody threw up all over my Cintiq. 1 star

So, doing some basic remedial maths, that gives this book an overall score of 2.6 stars, rounded up to 3 because it’s my birthday and I’m feeling generous.

[Sesana · Rating 3 out of 5]

A posse of Deadpools. Interesting. Kidpool's ill-fated turn at the Xavier school is especially fun to read. But not much happens here. It is the prelude, and there are hints that something very big is about to happen, but it's mostly recruitment here.

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still preserved the essence of the insanity and humour of the Deadpool character. Not quite so laugh-a-minute as some Deadpool stuff but who am I to complain about someone able to amuse my snarky gene?

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Color me surprised, but I actually enjoyed this! After a massive string of terrible Deadpool books, it's very nice to see one that is simultaneously inventive, ridiculous, and funny. I wasn't a fan of Gischler's Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth series, but it seems like he's learned a lot from that series and is instead focusing on just creating a big, wild book.

Each issue in this prelude introduces one of the members of the Deadpool Corps (Lady Deadpool, Kidpool, Dogpool, and Headpool, in that order), plus an additional story of the corps working together for the first time in a game of cosmic capture the flag. I found each introductory issue to be pretty solid, not relying on the old standby Deadpool jokes that get very old very fast, instead focusing on keeping things fresh and in-the-moment. The art for each of these issues works very well, minus the always-terrible Rob Liefeld's Lady Deadpool issue, but who cares. We all know Liefeld sucks.

My only real concern about this book lies in the final issue. The art in this issue is done by Kyle Baker, a man who used to be an incredible cartoonist and comic book artist. I don't know what he's doing now, but it's awful. Just atrocious. It looks like he animates a really shitty Playstation game from like 1999, then takes screenshots and dumps them in the comic. It is genuinely difficult to look at, and detracts so much from the comic that I don't understand why he is given any work anymore (I've read a few comics lately where he does this). I fully believe artists should be able to grow and try new things, but not if they are objectively terrible? Don't ruin someone else's writing with your weird experiment.

Also there's a scene where a woman has sex with Deadpool for no reason, basically just because he shows up and is a man. Nope! Let's get over this, please!

So, besides these things, this is a pretty fun Deadpool outing. I can only hope the actual Deadpool Corps series itself lives up to this.

[zxvasdf · Rating 5 out of 5]

Origin story of the Deadpool Corps, a direct sequel to Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth, No. 1. Deadpool skips from one alternate universe to another, gathering the Deadpools from each. As always insanity, luck, and Deadpool's sheer brilliance, incidental or otherwise, salvages the situation at the very last moment. If you like your chuckles along with very gory and strange situations, Deadpool is your dude.

My favorite thing about Deadpool is it appears he knows he is a character in a story.

[Vladimir · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dosta gadan i polu-potreban strip. Buđave fore i vrlo diskutabilan crtež pet crtača u rasponu od jedan do koji-je-vama-kurac. I dalje kupujem ovo najpre zbog prevodioca pa tek onda zbog Dedpula, a svakako ne zbog (nedajbože) Kerpula. Da, to je pravi lik. Vrlo dobre naslovnice Dejva Džonsona su unakažene mediokritetskim kolorom Rika Rensija. Da li ću pohrliti da kupim Korpus Dedpula 1 i 2? Ne. Pustiću izdavača da se malo preznojava.

[Asha · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was so freaking weird! This was the first Deadpool story I read, so maybe they're always like this. I was laughing and think "wth?" half the time, but I did really like it. (The only thing that bugged me was the 3d stuff at the end, but really I didn't care too much.) I plan to read more!

[Sonic · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was stupid, absurd, gross and wrong! Which is all the things we love in a Deadpool comic.

Very funny! Had me laughing out loud from cover to cover.

[Eli Poteet · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm a sucker for preludes, alternate realities and for "kiddo" themed universes at that! I extremely disliked the computerized fifth issue, PASS.

[Bekka · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was so much fun! All the variant Deadpools were so brilliant, and while the reason why they were fighting was a bit confusing, the rest was just pure chaotic Deadpool!
Also, the Next Gen reference in Kidpool's issue was done fantastically!
TW for violence, mentions of war, guns, explosions, sexist comments, severed heads.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok introduction that isn't for a Casual Deadpool fan. Intriguing enough for me to pick up the first volume if I run across it but won't be going out of my way to look for it.

[Tim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it.

[The_J · Rating 3 out of 5]

Getting the gang back together - irreverently of course.

[Dmitry Yakovenko · Rating 2 out of 5]

Данный комикс является предысторией к тому "Deadpool Corps", который, в свою очередь, является прямым продолжением великолепного "Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth". Не знаю, окажется ли Корпус Дэдпула хорошим, но предыстория к нему получилась далеко не самой выдающейся.

Сюжет рассказывает о том, как Дэдпул собирает свой отряд, путешествуя по различным альтернативным вселенным. При этом две из пяти истории (первый и четвертый выпуски, в которых идет речь о Леди-Дэдпул и Хэдпуле) весьма неплохи и находятся примерно на уровне с уже упомянутым выше "Merc With a Mouth". Еще два выпуска (второй и третий, про Кидпула и Догпула) просто довольно слабые и не заслуживающие внимания читателей. А одна, как раз финальная, является просто несусветным и абсолютно не смешным бредом, еще и ужасно нарисованным.

При этом первый, второй и четвертый выпуски нарисованы отлично, поэтому претензии лишь к художникам третьего и пятого комиксов. С юмором все также странно, вроде есть вполне себе феерические моменты и отличные шутки (обычно они как раз в отличных и неплохих номерах), а в то же время, на удивление, очень высок процент откровенно дебильного юмора (который, естественно, проявляется в третьем и пятом комиксах).

В принципе, этот том можно прочитать, учитывая что он является мостиком к "Deadpool Corps", плюс почти половина этого тома радует отличным юмором, красивым рисунком, оригинальной историй и неплохим экшеном. Другое дело, что да, другую половину читать ну вообще не хочется.

[Chris ↛ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Deadpool Corps is about how the Deadpool Corps first got banded. Deadpool starts recruiting different versions of himself from the Multiverse - which is a concept in the Marvel universe as in real life, to put it simply, it is a theory that there are multiple variations of you who lives in another universe- in an attempt to save the world.

To be completely honest, this is one of my least favorite Deadpool comics. Although I liked the first four comics where it shows the different lives of the "alternate Deadpools" and how Deadpool, convinces them that the world is in grave danger. The fifth and final comic was a train wreck. The art and style of how it was presented was a topsy turvie of 3D images (where I don't know if this was the infant stage of 3D art in 2010) but it was so poorly drawn that as I read I grew more annoyed on why did they have to change the style.



All in all, I give this 2.5 stars. Although I liked the storyline, I wasn't completely blown away either especially the final chapter.

[VampAmber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ooh, me likey very muchy. But how can you not love Deadpool? This is exactly the kind of wacky hijinks that I love the best. The one with Dogpool was a bit strange, I will admit. I kinda want to read more from the universe that Kidpool came from. And I love just about anything with Lady Deadpool in it. The one where he gets Headpool was probably my favorite, though. Wasn't a fan of the art style from the 5th story, but it wasn't bad enough to make me bring down the rating any. Just didn't really prefer it, you know? Kinda wanna go and read some more Deadpool comics now. ♡♡♡ Such a fangirl I am.

[Yang Lu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ever heard of fan service? THIS.
This dead pool release strikes me at all the right places, goes into all the nooks and corners and makes me feel real gooood.

Sneak Peak:
Xavier's academy for gifted delinquents? check. Ten year old Wolverine? check. Ten year old Scott Summer getting a speech from Jean Grey? Check. Professor Xavier in Afro? Check.

All this, plus original, undiluted deadpoolness in every page and every panel --- you get the point.

Is it high art? No. Is it entertainment? In its rawest form.

If you want to buckle your seat belt and have some FUN, here is deadpool!

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

So in this prelude, we have Deadpool rounding up other versions of himself. Lady Deadpool's run was a little boring in comparison to Kidpool's and Dogpool's. (in which Kidpool fights Scott Summers and crashes a school dance and Dogpool becomes a circus star) Hell, even the beheaded skull version was good (Pirates!) so bit of a rough start but extremely entertaining.

It's scary thinking of Deadpool as the responsible one, but he's the leader of his selves. It's a good fun prelude, probably not necessary for plot though.

[Silas · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not sure just when Deadpool stories became so mindless. Many of the stories used to be full of psychological insight, featured Deadpool struggling to be something better, and with clever contemporary references. This doesn't have any of that. It just shows the familiar Deadpool gathering alternate universe Deadpools to go on some unnamed cosmic adventure because, I don't know, he's crazy? There is no nuance, the jokes aren't funny, and the art goes from merely not good to mind-meltingly awful towards the end. This does not make reading the actual Deadpool Corps event appealing.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes, it's 5 stars because I loved this. I have had it sitting on my shelf for a while, I picked it up and I started reading; I was hooked.

It was funny, very funny. The writing was so good and obviously the art. This was my first time reading Deadpool and kind of my first time really enjoying the experience of reading a comic.

I love all the references, especially this one: "So what exactly do you get up to down here in the dungeons with all these potions, Snape?"

[Matt Sabonis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay, these are hilarious. They hit my sweet spot just right. Headpool? And Dogpool's voices just woof at each other! Even Liefeld's art is suitable for the ludicrousness going on here. It's great.

[Johan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow!! Hells yeah seriously loved reading about all the different Deadpools and their birth into the Corps!! It's exactly how you expect a heap of Mercs with a Mouth to be handled. Brilliant

Enjoyed it immensely

Peace out

[Fugo Feedback]

Este tomo (que ni sé por qué marqué) ya debe estar editado en castellano como "Masacre Corps Preludio" o algo así, así que cuando lo corrobore seguro suba esa edición.

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really fun comic that would be better without Liefeld's art ruining the pages. The Kidpool chapter was especially hilarious.

[Kelsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

giving this four stars for kid pool alone. that was too funny.

[Kira · Rating 5 out of 5]

so good. soooooo good.

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

All out insanity and no apologies for it. And an overall narrative that makes...sense?

Fun read.

[Ondra Král · Rating 3 out of 5]

První tři sešity jsou skvělé, pak to jde dolů. Ten poslední jsem kvůli Bakerově kresbě moc nedával.

[Babs]

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[J. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Head Trip was not great, and it definitely didn't need a sequel. Amazingly, this is worse.