Deadpool vs. Thanos

Deadpool vs. Thanos #1-4

by Tim Seeley (Writer), Elmo Bondoc (Illustrator), Tradd Moore (Illustrator)

When life in the universe suddenly stops dying, Deadpool suspects his former rival, Thanos the Titan. As the two lovers of Death (in both its physical and theoretical manifestations) battle to save the universe from immortality, they must confront their own reasons for living and their passions for dying.

Collecting: Deadpool vs. Thanos 1-4

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

112 pages, Paperback

First published December 8, 2015

About the author

Tim Seeley is a comic book artist and writer known for his work on books such as G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, The Dark Elf Trilogy, Batman Eternal and Grayson. He is also the co-creator of the Image Comics titles Hack/Slash[1] and Revival, as well as the Dark Horse titles, ExSanguine and Sundowners. He lives in Chicago.

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 2 out of 5]

DEADPOOL vs. THANOS!



It sounds like it should be really cool. Really. Cool.
In my opinion, though? It fell flat.
Then again, I'm not a die-hard Deadpool fan. He's more like one of those characters that can go either way with me.
As in, sometimes he's so kick-ass and funny, I can't get enough!



And then, sometimes?
*shudder*
Enough! Enough, already! OhGodMakeItStop...



Which means, I sorta dread opening up any Deadpool comic because there's a 50/50 chance that I won't like it. But...
Well, it's Deadpool, so I keep coming back.



The title is somewhat misleading, because for the majority of the book, Wade and Mr T are working together...albeit reluctantly.



See, the thing is, they're both in love with Death. And she's been kidnapped! So, together they scour the universe to find their lady-love. All the while, making (mostly) lame jokes, and running the story into the ground.
There were a few times that I laughed/snorted/giggled/smiled, so I'm not saying this was a total loss...



But for the most part, this just couldn't hold my interest in any real way.
Jeff's review is pretty spot-on if you're looking for a second opinion, and/or a better explanation of what went wrong for me in this one.

[Jeff · Rating 2 out of 5]

With a blockbuster movie currently still in theaters, Deadpool is at the zenith of his popularity. As the character has grown in fame, Marvel has been exponentially increasing the number of books that feature him and by doing so a certain amount of dilution of quality has been the predictable result.

I take my Deadpool seriously, but just have a few minimum requirements that have to be met. Firstly, and most importantly, the books have to be funny. I don’t expect to be yowling with laughter over every single panel, but if I can startle my wife and the cat at least half a dozen times whilst reading these tomes, then it’s been a worthwhile read. Secondly, I need a bare bones plot onto which the chuckles can be hung on, like a patchouli drenched Nehru jacket on a cheap wire hanger. Just “bare bones”, nobody has to squeeze Dickensian-sized stories into a red and black spandex suit.

Over the years, Marvel has had a lot of writers who can bring the funny which has contributed to the growing success with Deadpool, so why hand over the creative reins to a third second stringer, like Tim Seeley (I wasn’t crazy about Revival)? I have ideas but can’t get past the Marvel restraining order issued after I showed up at Stan Lee’s doorstep naked, except for a pair of Hulk hands.

Deadpool books have become as common and numerous as rabbit spawn and I’m sure Rob Liefeld (the character’s creator) career is currently spinning in its grave. This volume is one of the runts of the litter.



This one’s more of a team-up, than a versus story - as the title wrongly proclaims. Deadpool and Thanos, jealous rivals, have to find Mistress Death, because everything in the universe is now immortal.



Thanos isn’t a very good foil for Deadpool. There’s little chemistry between the two. Deadpool annoys Thanos. Thanos beats him to a pulp and then monologues. Rinse and repeat.



The volume starts off fairly well with a briskly-paced pre-team-up first issue featuring Deadpool interacting with the Marvel universe at large…



Then Seeley had to, you know, write an actual story for this, featuring the contractually obligatory inclusion of the current second funniest Marvel character, Rocket Raccoon and the Guardians of the Galaxy.



There’s better Deadpool out there. Seek and ye shall find.

Bottom line :



*insert canned audience laughter*

[Jokoloyo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Making Deadpool in the same league as Thanos is absurd, as it should be for any of Deadpool story. A hired gun mercenary of Canada is playing with some of greatest entities of Marvel Universe. It would only make the great entities silly, because as in most of Deadpool stories, other characters are following the Deadpool rules of game.
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I was afraid the end should be fruitless and back to equilibrium of Marvel Universe, and yeah that's pretty much the spoiler I can give you.

Well, at least I like some of panels showing the emotional expressions on Thanos face.

[Terence · Rating 3 out of 5]

Someone captured Mistress Death. Thanos wants her returned, but she'll only speak to Deadpool.

Thanos begrudgingly agrees to work with Deadpool in order to rescue Mistress Death.


Oh Deadpool, he's such a pain in the behind. I don't know why I keep reading titles Deadpool headlines. Too much Deadpool rots the brain. Anyway Deadpool and Thanos together create quite the odd couple. I wasn't aware that Thanos cursed Deadpool with immortality. It's a funny move that forces Thanos to deal with Deadpool, but helps keep him away from Thanos's skeleton love Death.

All in all Deadpool vs Thanos was fairly pointless.

2.5 out of 5 stars

[CG. · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Merc with the mouth, vs The Jerk with the jaw!

This story, gives reader's the lunacy you'd expect from such an unholy love triangle.

Mistress Death is as fickle as ever, disappearing, and leaving life as the only constant in the universe. Initially at each other's throats, Deadpool is killed, only to be brought back to act as a guide to Death's whereabouts. Now, the two must team up to find out where she's been hauled off to.

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

It really should have been called Deadpool and Thanos Team Up. Death has been kidnapped and No one in the universe is dying. Death is only communicating with Deadpool which pisses Thanos off and he crushes Deadpool to a pulp. At this point Thanos resigns himself to teaming up with Deadpool to rescue Death. Here the book gets metaphysical and they start visiting Marvel's Cosmic entities. I really hate these characters. To include them in this book is an odd choice and it doesn't work. What humor is in the books is hackneyed and not funny. The art is subpar. A concept that could have been great, came out just "Meh".

[˗ˏˋ n a j v a ˊˎ˗ · Rating 2 out of 5]

well not much of a vs. more like an alliance.
graphics were good. the whole loving death by Thanos and Deadpool was a good idea but unfortunately a wasted potential.
it could be better in many ways, but personally these two characters' crossover didn't excite me in the first place... it's weird cause I like both and now... I'm disappointed :/

P.S: THANOS IS NOT FUNNY; THANOS CANNOT BE FUNNY; STOP PUTTING JOKES IN HIS MOUTH

[L. McCoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Guys, what’s with the negative reviews here? I mean, this clearly isn’t the best Deadpool comic but it’s still fun!

What’s it about?
Thanos and Deadpool are both in love with Death as in, the personification. However she is in danger and crying out for Deadpool when a crazy event happens, an event making it that nothing dies. Deadpool and Thanos to the rescue!

Pros:
The story is interesting. It’s a mix of fun and dark that works very well!
The art is mostly well done.
The characters are fairly interesting. Deadpool and Thanos mix fairly well.
The action scenes are very intense, exciting and frequent!
This book is hit and miss with the humor, I’m giving it a point for the good jokes and how funny they are. There were a few that were very well done.
This book is very unpredictable which is a pleasant surprise.

Cons:
So, I said the humor is hit and miss, the bad humor belongs here, there were many jokes that tried a bit too hard.
The ending is... I don’t know, it wasn’t awful or anything but I didn’t like it either.
I don’t know why but Thanos’ eyes often look weird to me in this book. He looks kinda like he’s stoned for the entire book but I doubt that’s the case, Thanos never seems mellow here (or in any other book).

Overall:
This book is fun.
Does it have a few problems? Yeah. Is it the best Deadpool comic I’ve read? Nope. Is it the worst Deadpool comic I’ve read? No, it’s not that either.
This book is worth picking up if you are interested in reading more comics with either of these 2 characters.

4/5

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Deadpool but! This is not what its name says.
This wasn't good.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like Tim Seeley. And Deadpool is by far the best thing that happened to Superheroes since Watchmen.. but this was... meh. Not that good. A few funny lines here and there and that was it. Not a good plot and not an interesting one either.

Not recommended. Sorry.

The artwork was decent... I guess? I wasn't really into it either.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite funny in places but, overall, a little bit sloppy. The art was below-par, without being truly awful. Worth a read if you're a Deadpool fan with an hour to kill but don't expect anything brilliant.

Sorry for the short review; still ill.

[Katie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did not enjoy this. The humor was lacking, the storyline didn't make sense, and there was honestly very little point to this entire arc.

[Ethan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Deadpool vs. Thanos is witty, charming, and still retains everything we love about both characters (and a few guest stars). I was surprised before reading it to learn that it is Earth-616 canon, but now I'm left satisfied, for Tim Seeley did not write Thanos in a goofy way, nor did he write Deadpool too goofy or too serious; a great medium was found, and props to the writer for that.

Like plenty of Deadpool comics that are not part of an ongoing series, this is short but sweet, reminding me a bit of Cullen Bunn's Deadpool stories. I read this in one sitting, and while that may turn some people off, I didn't mind it. The story was good enough and the art good enough that, while I would have preferred the art a bit more polished and the story a bit longer, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

I did not, however, care much for the final issue. In fact, the only redeeming thing about it, in my opinion, were the things said about the personalities of Wade Wilson and Thanos. Besides that, it was my least favorite issue, and a bit abysmal compared to the rest of the great issues in the book.

But make no mistake: I loved reading this, and I recommend any fan of Deadpool or Thanos (or both) to read it.

[Hades Martín · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing amazing nor life changing, exactly what I expected. I read it because of a YouTube short video ("when Doom is about to finish his night routine, Deadpool"), so I didn't expect anything but to be entertained.
If you like Deadpool sure, read it, but he's not as funny and his jokes are not as curated compared to the movie version, which in a way represents better how his brain is always in a constant state of death, so he's like a child.
The art is really cool though, I liked it better compared to the 80s Wolverine comic, and the story is good, just didn't make me gasp or was surprising.

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s true that too much of Deadpool rottens the brain. But, taken judiciously, they produce lots of smirks.
Take this one.
Death is missing. To find her, Thanos must join hands with Deadpool who was the sole recipient of Death's last fading messages. The inevitable happens. We keep smirking.
The end!
If you are interested, do read it. It's a thin book; so not much scope for the brain to fully rotten.

[— nova · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can’t believe I’m giving a comic with Deadpool anything less than 4 stars, let alone only 2 of them but this was so disappointing and around the halfway mark I just didn’t have the energy to finish it and took like a week long break. I feel like this had potential and could’ve been interesting but it fell through. Some parts were okay but overall meh.

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not best Deadpool comic ever, but still not worst one.
And some parts were just too much funny! XD

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my first experience with Thanos. Not sure if it's because this is a Deadpool read, but he can be quite funny. Sort of the same kind of funny Thor is whenever he pops into a Deadpool comic and starts talking all old timey Norse. Fun story, as is expected with Deadpool.

[Nana Spark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Now that is how you do Deadpool dialogue! The story itself was meh, but I was here for the banter!

Also: I shall forever refer to Thanos as the "thousand pound bag of lumpy grape yogurt".

[Carl Waluconis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This in another in a number of mini-series' pairing Deadpool with Marvel star characters. Deadpool is of course Marvel's "third-wall breaking", smart-ass super hero. His adventures with Thanos, Marvel's biggest baddest bad guy, are hilarious. Thanos is dead serious (excuse the pun) about rescuing his great love, Death. Without her, nobody dies, which leads to a universe of problems. As it turns out, Deadpool also has a thing for Death, so he accompanies Thanos, the whole time driving Thanos into slow burn or rage with his ceaseless irreverent digs. My favorite was calling Thanos "a thousand-pound bag of lumpy grape yogurt". Occasionally Thanos breaks and pounds Deadpool literally into pieces. But with Deadpool's healing factor and no deaths in the universe, he always comes back. The story includes Marvel's cosmic characters, Infinity and Deadpool as Captain Universe, but accompanying them is the hapless sorcerer, Talon, who dresses kind of like a rooster. Marvel is always willing to acknowledge its own silliness, creating here an entertaining mash-up all about Death.

[Petergiaquinta · Rating 2 out of 5]

I dunno...despite being rather late to the Deadpool game, I’m quite fond of his two movies, and I appreciate the meta quality of his humor, but the whole Death tie-in to Wade Wilson’s storyline was a horrible misstep on the part of whoever makes these decisions at Marvel. Wade needs to stay in his lane. Sorry, I just don’t buy it.

And I don’t buy Eternity acting against Death in the first place. The whole framework to this storyline makes little sense to me.

Sure, Wade tickling Eternity’s funny bone is worth a lolz or two, but Deadpool doesn’t belong on the same page as the In-Betweener or Thanos or any of the cosmic characters. He just doesn’t.

It’d be like Howard the Duck joining the Avengers or Donald Trump being elected president. Preposterous!

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a pretty fun Deadpool story in which Mistress Death has been kidnapped, so no living creature in the universe can die. Deadpool and Thanos - both of whom are / have been Death's lovers - must team up to try and find their lady love and restore the proper order of life and death. So, the title is misleading because it's not really Deadpool versus Thanos, but more like the worst buddy team up imaginable.

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been on a real Thanos kick lately and I always love me some Deadpool so "Deadpool vs. Thanos" was (as Thanos would say) "inevitable." The adventure isn't quite as silly as I would have guessed but that should be expected. Nobody is more serious than Thanos. I love that Death loves Deadpool and it drives Thanos bonkers. Based on the title alone, you already know if you're going to like this book.

[Alex G · Rating 5 out of 5]

we get an ending for a D-list villain. and cosmic deadpool. This one was a treat!

[Jenny Clark · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a decent Deadpool story, with him not really fighting Thanos but working with him to rescue their lover, Mistress Death... Long story... Anyways, the Merc deff had a Mouth and used it annoy Thanos, what else.

[Anda Ionescu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mie mi-a placut, amuzant. Un fel de Marvel versus Saramago-Intermitentele mortii, haha.

[Tricia · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a perfect example of why I love Deadpool, who else can partner up with Thanos to find Mistrees Death, (who they both are having a fling with btw).

[Beyza · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deadpool'un olduğu her yerde eğlenmeyerek okumak mümkün değil ❤️

[Kelli · Rating 5 out of 5]

AWESOME! When Deadpool's ladylove Death herself is kidnapped and all life ceases to end, he must team up with his competitor for her affections: Thanos. The Guardians of the Galaxy, the Avengers, Doctor Doom, and even a murderous death cult are all present trying to take out Deathpool and Thanos. Snark, murder, and sheer mayhem fill this volume making it a super fun read with a surprisingly profound message.

[Roman Colombo · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a lot of fun, and surprisingly a perfect Deadpool story. It takes a point of the Marvel U--that Thanos and Deadpool are both romantically in love with Death herself, and creates a story that uses this fact...and it works. Deadpool and Thanos are a weird pairing but it works the same way Cable and Deadpool work. In Marvel tradition, they fight, the team up, and they fight some more. And it's all a lot of fun all the way through, with some nice art to go with it.