Deadpool-Verse: Deadpool Corps

Deadpool Classic

by Victor Gischler

It's Deadpool like you've never seen him in a cosmic adventure with a team of...more Deadpools!?

Deadpool gears up for an intergalactic adventure - but to succeed, he'll need to assemble a crack team of special operatives! So naturally he recruits four other versions of himself! What could go wrong? Lady Deadpool, Kid Deadpool, Dogpool, Headpool and the original Merc With a Mouth form...the Deadpool Corps! The consciousness-sapping Awareness has wiped out the free will of millions of planets, and the Corps must stop it from destroying the galaxy! If they can keep the infighting and binge drinking to a minimum, they just might just stand a chance. Then, the Omega Confederation hires the Corps to stop a rebellion. But when Deadpool falls for Princess Teela, the group promptly switches sides - and incites a civil war! Will their meddling destroy an entire planet?

PRELUDE TO DEADPOOL CORPS #1-5, DEADPOOL CORPS #1-12 and DEADPOOL FAMILY #1

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Science Fiction, Humor, Graphic Novels Comics

448 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 2015

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

[Sud666 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Deadpool has been a hit or miss character for me. In the hands of some writers (I count the movies in this category), he is a very funny and amusing character who, simultaneously, is a bad-ass. In other hands he's a boring, trite, poorly written mess with the humor being akin to fart jokes. Thankfully, Victor Gischler "gets" Deadpool and writes him superbly.

The Elders of the universe are facing a terrible threat to the entire galaxy. In order to prevent this fate, they recruit Deadpool and he, in turn, recruits Deadpools from alternate realities to form the Deadpool Corps. The Corps then goes on a hilarious and destructive romp through the galaxy to defeat this massive threat and then go on for further amusing adventures.

The artwork is very good. The stories are funny and cool at the same time. The Deadpool Corps is a great concept, and it works very well as a comic. This is one of the best Deadpool comics I've read and a welcome addition to my Comics collection. As a side note, the final story about The Deadpool Family by Cullen Bunn was disappointing and not to my liking, so I ignored it as filler.

[kory. · Rating 3 out of 5]

#1 deadpool classic, vol. 1 ★★★☆☆
#2 deadpool classic, vol. 2★★☆☆☆
#3 deadpool classic, vol. 3 ★★★☆☆
#4 deadpool classic, vol. 4 ★★☆☆☆
#5 deadpool classic, vol. 5 ★★★☆☆
#6 deadpool classic, vol. 6 ★★☆☆☆
#7 deadpool classic, vol. 7 ★☆☆☆☆
#8 deadpool classic, vol. 8 ★★☆☆☆
#9 deadpool classic, vol. 9 ★★☆☆☆
#11 deadpool classic, vol. 11: deadpool: merc with a mouth ★★★☆☆
#12 deadpool classic, vol. 12: deadpool corps ★★★☆☆
#13 deadpool classic, vol. 13: deadpool team-up ★★★★☆
#14 deadpool classic, vol. 14: suicide kings ★★★☆☆
#15 deadpool classic, vol. 15: all the rest ★★★☆☆
#17 deadpool classic, vol. 17: headcanon ★★★☆☆

the number of ridiculous storylines i put up with just to get good deadpool content

content/trigger warnings; violence, blood, murder, gore, fatphobia, misogyny, racism,

[Adam Stone · Rating 4 out of 5]

Since the Joe Kelly era of Deadpool, the character is supposed to be the Dumb Fun anti-hero of Marvel. Unfortunately, it often leans on the dumb and replaces the fun with "random pop culture references."

While the Daniel Way run on Deadpool serves as the first excellent run of Dumb, Fun Deadpool That Fits Into The Wider Continuity, this collection is a Dumb Fun Deadpool-Centric Nonsense Ride. If not funny, it's at least much more humorous than the Fabien Nicieza run. It has an easy-to-follow plot that has absolutely no bearing on any other book in the Marvel Universe. Everything you need to know about all of the characters are in here.

Sure, technically, we met the Deadpool variants in Deadpool Classic, Vol. 11: Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth but you don't need to know that. And knowing the previous volume won't make this any more or less enjoyable.

If you're in the mood for something incredibly stupid but not annoyingly immature, this is one of the best Deadpool books to check out. It also might be the best book featuring some art by Rob Liefeld.

[Matt Sautman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Though slightly dated in its depiction of women and the lack of diverse characterization that easily emerges when the core cast is a team of variants, Deadpool Corps retains a charm that reminds me of my teenage years. The storytelling is occasionally messy, but the Deadpool Corps is less a book one reads for plot than an invitation to see what kind of shenanigans Deadpool would get in it if everyone on his team was just as unhinged as he is. Where else can one read the Merc with the Mouth ally with a lady, dog, child, and disembodied version of himself?

[taeli · Rating 3 out of 5]

read 8/14/17

[Richard Rosenthal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably the silliest Deadpool collection I've read. Alternate universe versions of Deadpool come together to save the day. This actually happens about halfway through the volume. then they pal around in their space ship "Bea Arthur" until the Elder Gods get sick of their antics and send all the Deadpools home. Lots of fun to be had but the overall story isn't that great.

[Daniel Butcher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting, I found I liked this complete collection of Deadpool Corps a star better than smaller chunks of this "saga".

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite of the series so far. Just a great collection.

[nidah05 (SleepDreamWrite) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good volume. Love the cover.