When Forbush Man is murdered, could it be the beginning of a killing spree that's no laughing matter? Deadpool sure thinks so! Things are about to get serious for Marvel's funniest characters as the Merc with a Mouth sets about saving hilarious heroes including Squirrel Girl, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Ant-Man, Howard the Duck and…Punisher?! If that plot ain't nuts enough, brace yourself for Squirrelpool! As the bodies start to pile up, Wade and Howard investigate why their pals keep losing their heads — literally! Maybe Doctor Strange, Master of the Mirthful Arts, can work his magic and help put an end to this killing joke before Deadpool becomes the punchline! It's a Marvel Universe murder mystery that'll have you in tears — of laughter, or sorrow, or possibly both!
Deadpool turns Tim Curry/Detective in a nonsense hilarious murder mistery Clue style... and first victim is FORBUSH MAN! Just that made the day of this old Marvel Zombie. Loved the cast of characters, the gags and "The Fly" reference was a top one for me... Squirrellpool! Oh good grief XD
Marvel meets Agatha Christie in Deadpool: Too Soon? A group of Marvel characters are invited to a secluded country mansion and then one of them is murdered. It’s up to Wade to do his best Miss Marple impression and find out whodunit!
Being an Agatha Christie fan, the premise was appealing but the book turned out to be disappointingly rubbish. After the decent opening with the victim being killed, the following investigation was dull and uninteresting full of the standard superhero punch-up drivel. It didn’t help that the Unbearable Squirrel Girl, a character I can’t stand but whom Marvel love shoving in as many titles as possible, is in this one a lot accompanying Wade as his insufferable detective sidekick.
The “jokes”, which are just obvious pop culture references, aren’t funny and the ending is a cop-out with who the killer is and their motive - just lazy contrived rubbish. There’s also Deus Ex Machinas galore, undermining what little of the drama there was. Also included is a pointless and forgettable story from the Gwenpool Holiday Special where Deadpool goes to a Deadpool lookalike contest on Halloween. Yawn.
The story starts well and Todd Nauck’s art is ok but Deadpool: Too Soon? is largely too shit to bother with. Who killed the cool premise? This creative team with their crap, uninspired execution!
The bad news is the Unbearable Squirrel Girl and Howard the Fuck are in this comic. The good news is that this is a Marvel version of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None so there’s a possibility we might get to see them killed!
Along with Squirrel Girl and Howard the Duck, someone is blackmailing Forbush Man, Peter Porker the Spider-Ham, The Punisher, Ant-Man, Rocket and Groot, and, of course, Deadpool and his wife Shiklah. As the group arrives at the mysteriously empty mansion in the middle of nowhere, they realise this is a set-up - and then one of them is murdered! Whodunit?
I really like the concept behind this one as And Then There Were None is my favourite Agatha Christie novel and this first issue is a strong start to what could be an awesome story - Deadpool’s last Infinite Comic, Dracula’s Gauntlet, was my favourite Deadpool book so hopefully this one is good too. And it’s always great to see Spider-Ham! Poo poo pants to Squirrel Girl and Howard though so not quite full marks for this one ish.
It's not going to win an Eisner anytime soon but I really enjoyed this one for its pure, unadulterated ridiculousness. There are several laugh out loud moments as Deadpool turns detective to work out who is decapitating all his 'friends'.
Speaking of his 'friends', this book has a great supporting cast: Ant-Man, Howard the Duck, Spider-Ham, Squirrel Girl, Rocket Raccon, Groot, Dr. Strange, the Punisher and Forbush Man. YOU'RE DAMNED RIGHT I SAID FORBUSH MAN!!! (This name will probably mean nothing to anybody who's only been reading comics less than a quarter of a century but to old farts like me he's a seriously awesome blast from the past.)
To be honest, this book is worth it just to see Squirrel Girl beat the crap out of the Punisher. I want to see that on the big screen!
...and I think I'm being generous here. Also a sucker for Deadpool as always.
Well, this one plays out as an Agatha Christie mystery whodunnit story, but not in a good way.
Deadpool for some reason, calls a bunch of people and ducks and trees, which have nothing to do with each other, in his house with Shiklah and he invites them for whatever reason to what?! Take a picture all together? Something like that... and then someone dies.
So DP goes to hunt whoever did it, starts asking questions to everyone, all the while we have squirrel girl (ugh) joining him to that hunt and being fucking annoying as fuck, if that's how she is on her own series which I'm amazed there IS a series about squirrel girl-- then who the FUCK is buying that garbage and more importantly why the fuck is marvel keep making them?
ANYWAY
It's boring. It's at times meh, with meh jokes that don't make you even exhale from your nose. Not even that kind of laughter. Sadly, I started it thinking it'd be good.. but it's not. Half the stuff happening make NO sense, it's like they were sitting at the table making the story and they were like "...eh... fuck it.. put that into the story as well. yeah fuck that too.. put that too.. no explanation it's deadpool, let's do whatever."
So. To sum up.
WHATEVER hope of liking this at all, or at least being a tolerable read with a somewhat good writing of Deadpool, squirrel girl ruined that shit right at the start. Not that it's completely Squirrel girl's fault. Oh no! It's everyone's fault.
And Punisher is in it too. Well, this isn't Punisher.. it's just a cosplay I guess.. cuz that was out of fucking character as fuckity fuck.
Don't read it, really. Plenty of good stuff out there. Did you the favour of reading it myself. You're welcome!
Also the end that shows who did it sucks. Big time.
Deadpool's a tough one to write well. Like Harley Quinn, it seems so easy for writers to just make him wise crack-y and jokey but... that's not all there is to him. When a story reduces him to that, it only becomes way more apparent when the jokes don't actually land.
And a lot of the jokes in here just don't.
This reads like a 1980s sitcom. The references go as far back as Laverne and Shirley, it felt a little too hokey at times and I laughed maybe twice? I hate to compare writers because everyone has their own style, but I can actually say I've reread Duggan and Posehn's run 3 separate times and I laughed out loud each time. So, it's not just that these jokes feel dated, it's that a lot of them weren't funny (in my opinion).
The plot reads like it could've been whittled down to a much shorter story. It's a whodunnit but comparing it to Clue would be misleading (I think? I've never actually seen the film .
You get a strange hodge podge (that Deadpool bafflingly refers to as the funniest characters in the Marvel Universe) of Squirrel Girl, Punisher, Scott Lang's Ant Man, Spider Ham, Doctor Strange, Rocket and Groot, Punisher and Deadpool's wife Shiklah the succubus. Squirrel Girl gets the most time but she was strangely treated like a young person and then oddly not when a clone keeps calling her mommy (which was incredibly weird).
Anyway... it's not a real recommend. There just wasn't enough to really enjoy here for me. Not a Deadpool book I'd recommend if someone asked me for recs.
Deadpool turns detective in this crazy book. The Merc with the Mouth invites a load of Marvel's funniest characters for a Christmas Card photoshoot. Squirrel Girl, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Forbush Man, Ant-Man, Howard the Duck, Spider-Ham and The Punisher (so serious he's funny) all turn up but when one of them is suddenly murdered Deadpool has a mission on his hands.
This was the funniest Deadpool volume I've read for some time. For a start it has all those great characters in it and their reactions to Deadpool. As if fuelled by having those guys around Deadpool himself is really funny, doing some great fourth-wall breaking and some fantastic pop-culture references. It's what we expect from Deadpool but some many writers take it too far but I thought Corin got it spot on. There's a great dynamic between Deadpool and Squirrel Girl who are the main characters for much of the story and inadvertently create "Squirrelpool" who is one of the most ridiculous versions of Deadpool yet.
Often these extra stories feature dodgy plots but I thought this was one worked well. The writer did a good job of using Shiklah to base the plot around. I must confess I was a little distressed to see some of those characters murdered brutally- I won't spoil it but there was panic for a brief moment before I realised what the ending must be.
Also bundled here was a story from the Gwenpool Holiday Special where Deadpool enters a Halloween Deadpool costume contest hosted by Squirrel Girl. It's a nice little story and fits in well with the volume- often the back-ups in trades seem strange choices but not here.
When I saw this announced I thought that it sounded fun and I was delighted to be proved right when I read it.
The comic "Deadpool too soon?" is a great comic because it is a mysterious comic and you never know hats gonna happen next. Also I like it because it has a lot of action like in a movie.
Deadpool: Too Soon? is a graphic novel written by Joshua Corin, with art by Todd Nauck and coloring by Jim Charalampidis and Andy Troy. The graphic novel collects issues 1-4 of Deadpool: Too Soon? as well as some material from Gwenpool Holiday Special: Merry Mix-Up #1 (with Chynna Clugston Flores serving as both writer and artist and Guy Major serving as colorist). As is usually the case when it comes to the Merc with a Mouth Wade Wilson (also known as the eponymous Deadpool), Deadpool: Too Soon? is full to the brim with humor, sexual innuendos, and clever quips (definitely putting the word comic back into the term comic books), some of which literally caused me to laugh out loud. (I don't usually like it when Deadpool breaks the fourth wall and acknowledges the fact that he is in a comic book, movie, video game, etc., but it's kept at a relative minimum here.) The story here is also pretty outrageous and incredibly (incredible in a literal sense) fantastic, and I enjoyed some of that and was put off by some of it. The story follows Deadpool as he and Squirrel Girl try to find and stop whoever is beheading their friends one by one, a group of friends that includes Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Spider-Ham, Howard the Duck, Ant-Man, and the Punisher (also known as Frank Castle, who obviously sticks out like a sore thumb among these otherwise light and funny characters). Along the way, they (Deadpool and/or Squirrel Girl) inadvertently combine their DNA to create a being, fight off Hydra members, cross paths with Doctor Strange, fight off demons, and so forth. As you can likely tell, the story is unorganized and all over the place, which is another aspect that I generally did not much like. The bonus material, taken from the aforementioned Gwenpool Holiday Special: Merry Mix-Up #1, also feels random, unrelated, and unnecessary. Deadpool: Too Soon? is, however, overall a fun read, and I recommend it to you if you are a fan of Deadpool and like reading stories that are likely to make you laugh.
deadpool meets agatha christie? sort of. this was really fun! an enjoyable story that made me laugh. top tier silly deadpool. he wears a suit, which honestly, why doesn’t he wear suits more? he says if ryan reynolds can pretend to be him, then he can pretend to be ryan, we love to see meta shit like that. he calls out misogyny and makes sure shiklah knows that she isn’t at fault for the actions of a man who can’t take no for an answer.
i just think he’s neat y’all
[Image Description: Deadpool and Ant Man are on a yacht doing the Titanic pose; Ant Man is behind Deadpool with his hands on Deadpool’s waist, Deadpool is smiling with his arms outstretched. Deadpool is saying, “I’m the king of the world!!!” and Ant Man is saying, “I hope you drown.” End Image Description.]
[Image Description: Deadpool is sitting on a house roof, holding a pad of paper in his lap, a box of crayons next to him, a crayon pressed to his mouth. He is saying, “In the beginning, God created Deadpool. And God looked upon his creation and he thought: ‘What the @#$% did I just do?!’” End Image Description.]
First off, this is an almost entirely self-contained Deadpool adventure, which is a fact that I really appreciate. When one of Deadpool's friends is murdered while taking a Christmas card picture, it sets off a sting of mysterious, brutal murders of some of the more wacky characters in Marvel comics. And when Deadpool launches his own investigation, matters go from bad to weird.
Even for Deadpool, the ridiculousness of this volume feels rather high, but that just makes the reading experience even more fun. There's not a whole lot going on here beneath the surface, but I had a wonderfully enjoyable time reading this story - from the wealth of cameos, to the humor, to the unexpected twists and turns of the plot itself.
Shiklah's character was... interesting in this volume, and I'm not sure that I liked the change, but she still did have some enjoyable interactions with Deadpool and the others that get dragged into this adventure.
The holiday special as well was kind of an odd one-off story, but it was wacky, fun, and truly funny.
So, overall, this isn't high quality storytelling. But it is enjoyable and amusing entertainment that I am glad I picked up.
This team started off seemingly like it was going to be stupid, but actually ended up being really entertaining.... Deadpool invites a bunch of people to the house of Forbush Man for a meeting to discuss them all being blackmailed by an unknown person. In attendance is :Deadpool, Forbush Man, Squirrel Girl, Spider-Ham, Rocket, Groot, Howard the Duck, Ant-Man, Punisher, and as always with 'Pool... his bride Shiklah. Tension only increases when Forbush Man is murdered, and then the book emulates "Clue" for a bit. People start dying, a hybrid known as SquirrelPool shows up, and the Scooby-Doo references are shelled in vast amounts as both mysteries try to get solved. The ridiculousness of Deadpool and Squirrel Girl in the same comic guarantees hilarity. Recommend, but only if you can handle all the crazy... LOL
Deadpool does his best impression of Agatha Christie in this one, as he has to find out who killed Forbush Man!
The main reason I read this was because I dig the digital comics format that Marvel was doing at this time. The modern ones, where it's more of an infinite scroll is so much less creative. This has the style where panels "pop" in, and there is a sense of motion, that gives the reading a experience a much more interactive angle.
Unfortunately the story that came with it wasn't one of the best. It's a murder mystery and Deadpool and Squirrel girl are a fun team up, but ultimately, this felt frivolous and inconsequential. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad a read it, but this is one of those books that I probably wont ever read again. Recommended for die-heard Deadpool fans.
Deadpool organizes a party for a grip of his "friends" which include Spiderpig, Antman, Rocket, Squirrelgirl among others. After the party the guests stsrt getting beheaded one by one. Squirrelgirl and Deadpool team up to figure out who is killing their friends. They use a teleported and accidentally make a Deadpool-Squirrelgirl hybrid who thinks they are its parents. In the end it's revealed that the beheader is Deadpools wife's old stalker. Dr. Strange helps and everything is reversed, bringing back all the heroes who had been beheaded.
A very amusing story, heavily laced with Deadpools classic humor.
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C'era da aspettarsi la follia! Promessa mantenuta! In questa mini piena di guest star di lusso (ROCKET!!!) si sta dietro ad un mistero: chi sta uccidendo le guest star una ad una con gran spargimento di sangue? Come può il Mercenario Chiacchierone, insieme ad un papero tosto ed al signore delle arti mistiche, scoprire chi è l'assassino e rimettere le cose a posto? Mica facile, quando di mezzo ci sono dei magici Chimichanga e la figlia bastarda di Deadpool e Squirrel Girl! Promessa mantenuta, eh!
This book is a about finding the killer of a person. The the setting is a house and it is dark outside. deadpool goes around looking for clues. a quote from the book "Fun Fact #1: Howard was kidnaped from his home plant by a demon called Thog. I would reccomed this book to someone who likes comic books an humor books. it is a fun book to read.
someone is murdering all the funniest marvel heroes and deadpool wants to get to the bottom of it; also someone gets their junk chopped off for being a misogynist! i laughed out loud, deadpool is the love of my life, etc. 5/5
4.75/5 stars. This was so funny! Also, it was my first Deadpool ever and it was a nice introduction to the character. I'm definitely going to read his other comics. Oh and i need Squirrel-Girl in my life, now! *.*
Everything you love and expect from Deadpool in a crazy murder mystery. A star packed cast that keeps losing their heads in story full of chaos and laughs with some nice art. The extra Halloween crossover with Squirrel girl was pure fun too.
This was actually really well done. He knows how to write for Deadpool, which makes me happy, and this story was compact and appealing. I loved his rapport with squirrel girl. She's not a likely companion for the Merc, so it creates some great humor.
La storia fila liscia ma senza mai decollare. Troppe strizzatine d'occhio alla Disney e ai suoi franchising e il finale troppo buonista mi hanno lasciata un po' freddina. Chi cerca una lettura adrenalinica e violenta qui rimarrà deluso.
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So, apparently Squirrel Girl is a legitimate character in the Marvel universe and not something dreamed up by crack-smoking comic fans. I spent the entire book hoping Deadpool would cut off her head and mount it on his wall. Seriously, she is lamer than Forbush Man.
First deadpool comic book to read and it was quite funny. Had to deal with some character I was not entirely familiar, which did not become my favorites, but it was alright.