You Are Deadpool

You Are Deadpool #1-5

by Al Ewing

Collects You Are Deadpool #1-5.

Do you ever want to be Deadpool?! Of course you do! Well, now's your chance — in this amazing role-playing romp! YOU decide what choices Deadpool makes! YOU keep track of your scores as the story unfolds! YOU roll dice to combat various foes — and we're watching, so no cheating!Determine your own destiny as you travel through Marvel history as Deadpool himself…meeting the Hulk in the swinging '60s! Smelling Man-Thing in the swampy '70s! Looking up Daredevil in the hard-boiled '80s! And more! Just be sure to avoid the many bad endings you could fall into…or suffer the consequences!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics, Humor

120 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 9, 2018

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very funny indeed with all the usual references from Al Ewing that lead me to believe the two of us had identical childhoods.

Why not five stars? Well, some of the artwork was a little on the mediocre side and the story did get a bit repetitive in places, although the latter complaint is probably unavoidable due to the nature of the format... which is a choose-your-own-adventure gamebook. I probably should’ve mentioned that earlier. Whaddaya want fer nuthin’? Rubber biscuit?

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 5 out of 5]

Magari non sarà uno dei migliori fumetti di Deadpool mai realizzati, ma la storia è sicuramente una delle più esilaranti fin dal tutorial iniziale e come librogame è sicuramente uno dei migliori e più difficili a cui abbia mai giocato... ho perso il conto di quante volte sono morto: ucciso da Bullseye, esploso insieme alla Terra a causa di una prematura guerra nucleare negli anni '60 dopo essere stato letteralmente fatto a pezzi da Hulk, disintegrato nell'ascensore di Kingpin e così via.



E quella copertina omaggio ai vecchi librogiochi della EL di Trieste, la casa editrice che portò in Italia Lupo Solitario & co., è un vero spettacolo.



Esilarante! XD

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Al Ewing creates a Choose Your Own Adventure comic for Deadpool. It's a clever idea made for a character like Deadpool. However, it's a pain in the ass to read. There's tons of page flipping because it's not just turn to this page. It's turn to this panel. The panels are all numbered and you may be turning to a specific page to only read one panel. It allows you to inadvertently see where the story could be headed ahead of time. Plus, for the lettering used, the ink for the threes and fives bled together leaving me confused if I needed to go to panel 37 or 57. This would have worked better as a digital comic where you could actually make your decisions and get taken to the next panel.

[Marianna · Rating 5 out of 5]

2024 update: I was doing so well, duh! Then I ended up dying because of Bullseye. Sigh.
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OH MY, it's been AMAZING!
I have been a total failure as a Deadpool, let's admit I couldn't have done worse - I never carried with me useful stuff (even if I wholeheartedly believed so: I mean, I was trying my best!), I kept losing all the fights* and I even ended up dying inside Fisk's elevator, with Sadness Level set on super high, brutally torn away from this funny and gripping adventure. But I had so much fun!

[Pinkerton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Questo fumettogame è parecchio spassoso, e non preoccupatevi se non avete mai giocato a, o non sapete nemmeno cos’è, un librogame; vi assicuro che in meno di un minuto sarete perfettamente in grado di vestire la calzamaglia per immedesimarvi nei panni del Mercenario Chiacchierone e lanciarvi in quest’avventura.

Racconto a bivi davvero ben congegnato, in cui ci si diverte per tutto il tempo. Avremo una missione da compiere, e ci sarà pure un nemico ricorrente: la Cavalletta! E non ho la minima idea del perché proprio una cavalletta :D Comunque il campionario di nemici è piuttosto variegato, quello che mi ha impressionato più di tutti è stato l’Uomo Cosa con i suoi 5D6…

Cavolo persino Hulk ha 4D6, noi invece soltanto 2. Però questi sono fra gli avversari maggiormente ostici, gli altri sono più abbordabili, inoltre potremo contare sugli oggetti che avremo la possibilità di raccogliere nel corso dell’avventura. Un ottimo prodotto insomma, che ci consente di giocare in prima persona con uno dei personaggi più folli dell’universo Marvel.
Nonostante la numerazione di 1 sul volume la vicenda inizia e si conclude qui e, al momento, non mi risulta ve ne siano altri. E poi, anche la presentazione è una gioia per gli occhi, il che lo rende un regalo perfetto per gli appassionati. Se è un acquisto che riguarda voi stessi invece, come nel mio caso, beh avrei preferito rinunciare a certi orpelli quali: confezione deluxe, matite e dadi, mantenendo solo l’essenziale volume in favore di un prezzo più economico… ciò non toglie che a mio avviso ne è valsa la pena :)

[Tony Stark · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is exactly the comic a moron like me needs to entertain me while my stress levels bounce through the roof during exam time

Merged review:

Not to be a child but I had so much fun with this 😂

[Книжни Криле · Rating 5 out of 5]

Регенериращият се дегенерат на „Марвел“ – Дедпул, като че ли вече се е доказал като любимец на българските читатели, тъй като днес ще поговорим за поредното заглавие с негово участие. Заглавие, обаче, което се различава от всички други досега. „Ти си Дедпул“, издаден у нас от „Артлайн Студиос“, е не просто комикс, а комикс-игра. Да, заглавието в случая е доста буквално, тъй като читателят взема решения вместо Устатия наемник и така движи историята към един от многобройните възможни завършеци. Прочетете ревюто на „Книжни Криле”: https://knijnikrile.wordpress.com/202...

[Mitchell Friedman · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ugh. I can't believe how much of this I read before reminding myself how much I dislike Choose-Your-Own-Adventures. And how much I dislike Deadpool. My brain has melted and not in a good way. And yet it is far from the worse Deadpool I've ever read.

[Natasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Who knew you could be bad at a comic book.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

review - https://youtu.be/EhSLQr--cgo

[Matthew Ward · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow! This was actually a lot of fun and I really enjoyed this role-playing, stat-keeping, mini-game-playing comic book. Totally unique concept that played very well!

[Cale · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't think of a character better suited to an adventure book than Deadpool - the structure of the comic intermingles with his fourth wall breaking personality in a deliciously demented manner.

The overall plot of this adventure is something to do with a Time Helmet, but really it's just an excuse to throw Deadpool into a variety of absurd situations and see how a die or assorted small objects can impact the story. There's a lot of humor here, playing with and subverting reader expectations in the choose-your-own-adventure style layout. I was honestly impressed with how well they made use of the comic format to dictate the confines of the story, with the issues being interlocking and related to each other without being dependent on each other. I'll admit I didn't play through the book, instead reading all the diverging routes, and it works pretty well for that too, with some knowing comments hitting that approach head-0n.

There's a lot to like here - the variations on a super villain in every time, the numerous cameos that play to or off of the character behavior (especially related to the era of each comic), and the ultimate resolution of the story is a very Deadpool spin on things. This was a lot of fun, with lots of depth to explore and it took a fair bit longer to read than your traditional Graphic Novel, but I was intrigued every step of the way, by the mechanisms if not the story itself.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

grenade
playing cards
fantastic 4
super midnight technique

badness +3
sadness +1

Merged review:

grenade
playing cards
fantastic 4
badness +3
sadness +1

[Mark Schlatter · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a collection of a five issue miniseries that serves as an off the wall choose-your-own-adventure. You play the first issue, then the middle three in a possible random order, then the last issue, with each issue being a relatively self-contained adventure. I played through the whole thing (dying many times but going back to the start of the issue rather than the start of the series), and then read over the paths I missed.

If you're going to do this type of thing, Deadpool (with his usual fourth wall breakage) is a good choice. I'm not a big fan of the comics character, but he works great in this setting. (To give you a sense of the gonzo nature, in the tutorial section, Deadpool is attacked by writer Kieron Gillen with a sandwich.) Ewing sets up the three middle sections in different decades of Marvel history, and Deadpool's interaction with all of them is funny and energizing.

I need to give a special mention to Espin's art. Not only does he depict different eras of Marvel's history quite well, but he handles the ridiculous panel layouts with ease. (Because of the choose-your-own-adventure nature, adjacent panels may have nothing to do with each other.) I can't envision a better artist for this type of endeavor.

For about $16, I got a pretty good payoff --- at least 3 hours of work to get through the whole thing. At times, it did feel like a bit of a slog; in issue 3, I resorted to note-taking to try and figure out what to do. And, to be honest, I'm not sure I want to go through the series again (even though there is an achievements page to work on if you wish). But as a one-off experience, it was pretty fun.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 3 out of 5]

GODAMMIT THIS NEEDS TO BE READ AS A WHOLE. NOT IN SINGLES.

If you liked Choose Your Own Adventure as a kid like me. And also you like Deadpool. But you DO like him cuz you wouldn't be reading this. SO ... yeah... Then you need to read this.

[Stefan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alot of fun but I have to reread it a couple of times for the full experience. With some choices I made I either died instantly, or on one occasion, had an instant victory where I didn't need to read the rest of the story.

Another reason why I need to read this again (or a couple of more times) is because I missed out on certain storylines. While skipping through the pages to go the the correct panel I saw some things happening, but while I was following my storyline I never experienced them.

But all in all it's a really fun book and I won't mind reading this a couple more times.

[Alex Sarll]

Well, I say I've read it - it's told Fighting Fantasy style, and I've only played through once, with barely any cheating (well, except where the protagonist told me to. Or I lost). So there's plenty left to discover. But even just that one path... well, it's Al Ewing writing Deadpool, so obviously it's ludicrous, and brilliant, and fucks with its own format. It also contains lots of very sarky in-jokes, a surprising amount of the Grasshopper, and the first in-universe appearance by an authentically puntastic Kieron Gillen. I love it.

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aside from Batman's wedding, this was a very light comic book week... perfect timing to jump into this "choose your own adventure"

What can I say though, I died. Which is officially canon! And sometime I'll cheat and see what the good ending might be, but for now I accept my fate!

But yeah, this was a lot of fun! 10/10 would recommend. Very well done, very cool, here's hoping for more like it!

[Christy · Rating 4 out of 5]

What’s better than a choose your own adventure featuring Deadpool?

[Mel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This gets 5 stars in my book because it was a choose your own adventure game that actually worked and kept my attention the whole time. And I laughed out loud a few times! Gimmick books like this are often clever but don't always hold the whole way thru - this one did for me. I used a tablet and that really helped the experience. Loved the five different time periods/art styles and found it easy to navigate. I didn't actually roll but picked paths instead and that worked just fine.

A fun Deadpool adventure and nostalgia trip back to the days of choose your own adventure books.

[Kelly K · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a delight.

[July · Rating 5 out of 5]

WAS SO FUN (i didnt solve the final riddle) (i finished with 6 sadnass and 0 badness)

[Megan Farve · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super fun, but after 8 run throughs I still didn't come out a winner. I finally gave up because I got stuck.

[Nihal Vrana · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I was a kid, I remember reading a series of books with this decision-making concept; I used to love them. applying this to the comic set, with a tongue-in-cheek character like Deadpool is a good idea. Overall, it is very well executed; it gets lazy in the last issues (this is a difficult thing to write and you can run out of ideas quite easily; so that is kind of understandable); but aside from that, it was a nice attempt and quite enjoyable.

[Dena Burnett · Rating 5 out of 5]

When comics and RPGs merge this is the wonderful brainchild. I haven't seen one of these since they were pitched in "Big", but it's waaaaaay better than those stuffy execs ever thought.

I'm going on a long trip with minimal packing space. I'm making room for this.

[Ian · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually brought out the dice and tracked my score and items. The comic works really well as a choose your own adventure/pen and paper rpg. It’s fun to read and play.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was... actually an insanely entertaining and hilarious read. It was completely different than any other comic I've picked up--and, when you read a lot of comics, it's downright refreshing to get something completely new and different. This experimental sort of story was clever in all the right ways: It just MAKES SENSE to have a choose-your-own-adventure story be a time-traveling one. How else would you have so many different parallel stories occurring simultaneously? Al Ewing could have just made this a choose-your-own adventure comic with no rhyme or reason for it... but he actually had the multiple plot lines make sense in the actual story. Kudos, Ewing. That kind of smart writing was all through this graphic novel--there were tons of fourth wall breaks, nods to continuity errors, and just more Deadpool sarcasm and craziness than can fit in this little review. (The jab at DC Universe Rebirth had me both laughing and shaking my fist. It was funny, but... man, I'm a DC girl and Rebirth ROCKS!!!) Honestly, it's the best Deadpool story I've read in a while. This comic took full advantage of the character's craziness and just let it explode into a wonderful whirlwind of what-ifs. Honestly, you can't ask for a more fun book. Plus, it has a great re-read factor. There were many storylines that I didn't hit, so I could definitely see myself picking this up again sometime. I do have to admit that, since I read this on my lunch break, I didn't actually have dice on me, so I just picked whether I won or lost at random. I'd love to try this again the way it was intended, but it totally worked just leaving Deadpool's fate to a 50/50 choice, too. (Even if I did kill him or end the world a couple of times... oops.) The only reason I didn't give this book a full five stars is because, in comparison to other comics, Deadpool is kind of an outlier character, based more in goofiness than in concrete storytelling. I'm not saying writers haven't done more with him (there have been some very compelling stories with Deadpool, particularly when paired with Spider-Man), but if you take his character too seriously, you lose what makes him Deadpool. As such, it's difficult to give a story with this character five stars, as that would put him in the same ranks (at least in terms of my reviews) as characters like Batman, Red Hood, Superman, Spider-Man, and Loki (just to name a few). But for what this comic is, it succeeds 110-percent. It's a perfect fun read, and I can practically guarantee that if you pick it up, you'll be chuckling out loud many times as you read it.

[Borislav Traykov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bulgarian below.
This. Is. Soooooo. Good!!!!!
The art in all issues is top-notch! The 2nd, 3rd and 4th issues poke fun at 4 separate ages of (comic book and general) history - the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
The gameplay is surprisingly good - the interactions between the issues (yes!) vary, the items mechanic is cleverererer than you think. There is replayability! Wow!
Rules? Yes, there are, but really ... really? Rules?
For me this is one of the strengths of the comic - both following and ignoring the rules yield satisfying results.
Deadpool remains true to himself throughout the entire mini series and that's also to be commended.
As a finisher, there is a list of achievements - hilarious and well done!
Get a copy of "You are Deadpool" and enjoy yourself!

"Ти си Дедпул" e българско преводно издание от Artline Studios и съдържа сите 5 тома на тази мини поредица.
Ще започна с това, че преводът е много добър и не усетих загуба на лафове 🙂
Zdravko, Ioana и Nikiопределено са се справили много добре с превода и редакцията. йЕвалата! 🙂
Кутията на Артлайн, в която дойде е много приятно кашонче с логото на издателството, а и дадоха бонус 2 зарчета за разкош.
Артът е много красив, като 2ри, 3ти и 4ти брой си правят майтапи с 4 отделни епохи (в комиксите, а и по принцип) - 60те, 70те, 80те и 90те.
Играта е изненадващо добра - взаимодействията между броевете варират, механиката с предметите е хем кретенска, хем доста добре добре реализирана. Даже има възможности за преиграване за тези, които не мамят като разпрани (аз мамя като разпран 😁).
Правилата - ко щещ! 😀 Най-вече за прехода между епизодите. И всички тези неща са навързани със сюжета и Deadpool нито за миг не изневерява на себе си 🙂
Точките за лошотия и тъга, макар и леко тривиални са много забавни.

[Sandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ich kann mir keine Figur vorstellen, die sich besser für solch ein Abenteuerbuch eignet als Deadpool - die Struktur des Comics vermischt sich mit seiner die vierte Wand durchbrechenden Persönlichkeit auf köstlich verrückte Weise.

Die Handlung dieses Abenteuers hat etwas mit einem Zeithelm zu tun, aber eigentlich ist das nur eine Methode, um Deadpool in eine Vielzahl absurder Situationen zu bringen und zu sehen, wie ein Würfel oder verschiedene kleine Gegenstände die Geschichte beeinflussen können. Es gibt hier eine Menge Humor, der mit den Erwartungen der Leser spielt und diese in den Verlauf der Geschichte mit einbezieht. Ich war ehrlich gesagt beeindruckt, wie gut Autor und Zeichner das Comicformat genutzt haben, um die Grenzen der Geschichte zu diktieren, wobei die Themen ineinandergreifen und in Beziehung zueinander stehen, ohne voneinander abhängig zu sein. Ich gebe zu, dass ich das Buch nicht durchgespielt habe, sondern alle abweichenden Routen gelesen habe, und das funktioniert auch ziemlich gut.

Es gibt hier viel zu entdecken - die Variationen eines Superschurken, der in jeder Zeitlinie auftaucht, die zahlreichen Cameos, die auf das Verhalten der Charaktere anspielen (vor allem in Bezug auf die Ära der einzelnen Comics), und die endgültige Auflösung der Geschichte passt hervorragend zu Deadpool. Es war ein großer Lesespaß, mit viel Tiefe, die Zeichnungen passten genau zu der Story, und es dauerte ein bisschen länger als eine herkömmliche Graphic Novel zu lesen, weil man zwischen den Seiten hin und her springt.

[ADITYA KADAM · Rating 4 out of 5]

YES THEY TRIED SOMETHING DIFFERENT BUT DIDN'T NAIL IT THAT WELL
seems pretty obvious of what you should do next if you are a DEADPOOL FAN
if ur a "LAYDOWN WHEN U READ" kind of reader then this book is not for you!
TRUST ME IT WILL TEST UR PATIENCE AND UR EXCITEMENT ONLY TO SET ITSELF UP FOR READING SO........ U GET IT *READ AT UR OWN RISK*