Spider-Man/Deadpool, Vol. 9: Eventpool

Spider-Man/Deadpool (Collected Editions)

by Robbie Thompson, Jim Towe (Illustrations), Matt Horak (Illustrations)

The "INFINITE HOUSE OF CIVIL yet SECRET CRISIS WAR INVASIONS" begins here! The BIGGEST arc of SPIDER-MAN/DEADPOOL will shake the foundations of the Marvel Universe! Nothing will ever be the same after this! NOTHING! Spider-Man and Deadpool just BARELY make it back from the Negative Zone in the middle of an Event that the Marvel U's heroes have already lost.
COLLECTING: SPIDER-MAN/DEADPOOL 46-50

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Spider Man, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Comics Manga

112 pages, Paperback

First published July 10, 2019

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Reviews

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Robbie Thompson ends the series with Spider-Man and Deadpool returning home to discover they are in the middle of a company wide crossover. Thompson skewers these crossovers along with himself. It gets really meta as the villain is blocking Deadpool's access to see through the 4th wall. I found this to be the best arc of the series to date.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spidey and Deadpool return from their sojourn in the Negative Zone to find that they've missed an entire comic book event, and now the Fourth Wall has been restored and all their friends are dead, like in that dinosaur book! Oh noes!

Okay, this was actually pretty clever. It's easy to do the fourth wall break every now and then, but to do it reliably for five issues and turn it into the driving force for a storyline is a bold storytelling move that Robbie Thompson manages to pull off surprisingly well. He has a lot of fun along the way, bringing back his favourite characters from across the run and his other Marvel work like Silk and Flash Thompson, culminating in a final showdown that shows just how far Spidey and Deadpool have come under his pen. It's a bit of a daft ending, but Spideypool revels in daft even at the best of times.

The only downfall really here is the art. It's still the team of Matt Horak and Jim Towe, but their art just doesn't do anything for me. It's not bad at all, it just never feels very adventurous, and the design for the Manipulator doesn't hit home either. There are some Scott Koblish-esque attempts at blending art styles later on, but even those don't seem to be as good as they could have been. Both Horak and Towe are good artists, but just a little too pedestrian for my taste, and especially for a storyline as big as this one.

Robbie Thompson's Spideypool ends as it started - a little silly, a little heartfelt, a little amusing, and a lotta fun. Shame it doesn't quite measure up in the visual department.

[Desii · Rating 4 out of 5]

"I dunno what comes next, webs. I'm just glad we're on the same page."
"Same, Wade. Same."

I had tears in my eyes on the last page.. for real.. why am I like this? But it is sad that this era is over now :'(

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hard to believe I'm typing this, but to meta for my taste.

[Jeremy Maddux · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spiderman: It's been a year since we left for our road trip. What happened?

Deadpool: Webs... Webs, I'm scared. Where did our readers go? I can't... I can't see them any more!

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Neste volume, Homem-Aranha/Deadpool, Volume 4: Megassaga!, chagamos ao final não somente da fase de Robbie Thompson no título, como também no final do próprio título. O interessante é que o autor conseguiu travar um final natural para o titulo que deixaria um escritor do tipo de Grant Morrison muito feliz. Isso porque depois de voltarem do Microverso, o Homem-Aranha e o Deadpool, encontram uma nova realidade devastada pela maior megassaga que o Universo Marvel já enfrentou. Assim, eles se aliam ao Novo novíssimo novérrimo Quarteto Fantástico para encontrar quem é o culpado: o grande vilão conhecido como O Manipulador. Mas a identidade desse personagem vai surpreender a todos, tanto aos leitores, como os personagens como ao próprio criador do Manipulador. Os desenhos do encadernado não são ruins nem bons, eles cumprem a tabela necessária para um título desses, que não é nem de primeira linha e nem de último escalão. Sinceramente, eu gostei muito de acompanhar essa fase de Robbie Thompson em Homem-Aranha e Deadpool, um escritor que faz histórias boas e interessantes. Também fico feliz que tenha saído em quatro encadernados, de maneira que se fosse sair na revista mensal, como havia sido com o resto do título, eu provavelmente não teria acompanhado.

[Ada · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5
Did you see my review of volume 8? Well, what do you know! This final volume is even more meta, Gwenpool plays a bigger role than before, and I’m more underwhelmed than ever.

With the exception of the event title itself (“Infinite House of Civil, yet Secret Crisis War Invasions”), I didn’t find this particularly funny. It also has too few heartwarming moments to be sweet, and it ends without much in the way of change or character/relationship growth (nothing that wasn’t already there two volumes ago, anyway). It all feels like one big, pointless, self-deprecating meta joke.

The old men arc was the best writing Thompson did for this series. It all went downhill from there.

[William Bainbridge · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5
This was surprisingly good. That's not to say that i thought it was going to be bad but I was expecting a 3 that was just alright, I was pleasantly surprised. I feel like spiderman and deadpool are one of those duos that just work extremely well together, you have the friendly neighbourhood humour of Peter and then the outrageous jokes from deadpool to go along with it. The plot was the thing that surprised me most though, and while the ending is very very weird the rest is really consistently good. Seeing so many cameos from the marvel universe was pretty cool. The shot of spidermans car was sick. Deadpools running joke of the 4th wall being gone and trying to convince spidey of its existence was just very deadpool (in a good way.) Pleasantly suprisingly good read.

[Mari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay meta jokes are funny! In restricted quantities. This volume didn't understand that. I was assaulted by meta jokes good god. And this was the last volume cmon,,,, there was like.. no Spider-Man lines in this one at all

[spockito · Rating 4 out of 5]

je sais pas trop quoi en penser, le début je l’ai trouvé très bien et la fin bâclée.

[María Ferre · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spider-Man y Deadpool vuelven de su aventura espacial para encontrarse con una Tierra completamente vacía de superhéroes. Solo unos pocos han sobrevivido al Manipulador y ahora deben intentar salvar a todos aquellos a los que se llevó.
Después de My Two Dads, que me gustó mucho, y Road Trip, que decayó un poco pero estuvo muy bien, esperaba un final de arco que estuviera a la altura de un final merecedor de esta serie, me temo que no fue así. Aunque comenzó con potencial con todo el gag de la cuarta pared, introduciéndonos en el mundo de Deadpool un poco más y haciendo que Peter lo apreciara como nunca antes, por alguna razón todo se ha ido desmadrando hasta que ha sido incontrolable y han tenido que cerrarlo de manera abrupta. Creo que los guionistas tenían ganas de continuar, pero la cancelación de la serie hizo que todo tuviera que cerrarse, fuera como fuese.
Lo que sí ha estado muy bien del último número ha sido ver los distintos estilos de dibujo y coloreado a través de las páginas.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was pretty much (for me, at least) the perfect Deadpool story. I love fourth wall breaks. In fact, that's pretty much the main reason I show up to Deadpool stories. The gratuitous violence and crude humor isn't really my thing (and I like that, when he's paired with Spidey, those elements are WAY toned down). And this graphic novel.... well... *spoiler alert!*.... THE ENTIRE PLOT IS A FOURTH WALL BREAK! That was beyond creative and hilarious. The fact that the writer was the villain--that he was the "Manipulator"--I mean, that was beyond funny! This comic also had a lot of jokes making fun of comics (specifically major comic events). I love this series (and this comic was kind of hinting at the series ending... but I think that was just part of the joke... I hope.... PLEASE DON'T END THIS SERIES! EVER! I CAN PERSONALLY ATTEST TO AT LEAST 2 LIBRARIANS WHO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL EVERY TIME IN COMES OUT!). Anyways... this book was a perfect meta romp. If you're looking for something fun and clever, this is it!

[Sleepseeker · Rating 2 out of 5]

We've come to the conclusion of this series and it ended in a weird way. I knew it would end in a bizarre fashion because that is how some Deadpool series ends. It was easy to understand what was going on, but it might have been too meta for me.

Now that it's over, I do wonder if we see some Spider-man and Deadpool interactions in either of their own series or anything that their apart of. I will be a little sad if I don't see any interactions from them again. I'm sad that we didn't see anything at the end where there is some growth of the characters in these last few books, instead we get this silly ending.

I finished the book with a feeling of incomplete that it ended in a silly matter and not with a moment between Spider-man and Deadpool. Any interaction between just the two of them would had been better than the ending we got.

[WORM · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was a really bad end to a series. I didn't even really find any of the comic entertaining, it was just a boring team-up with a bunch of characters I don't care about. The Spidey face reveal was horribly anticlimactic, the chemistry was awful, the jokes were bad, and it played wayyy too much into the fourth wall breaking stuff. That's like all DP was on about, it made him feel like such a one-dimensional character, all the characters felt like that actually. But don't worry! None of it was actually real, as we find out from a cameo of the author at the end! This was a waste of time, I'm sad this series that had SO much potential turned out like this from the change in writers, at least it still has a few gems.

[Grey Liliy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, that got an A for effort, at least.

Honestly, Wade's ability to break the forth wall is nice once in a while, but it's something I like in moderation--having an entire book & arc dedicated to it might have been a bit much for me.

It was still a fun story, but it's definitely one of the weaker books in the series.

But not all was lost. I did like Wade's desperation and getting to see Master Matrix is always a treat. And I did like a lot of the references (Johnny!) and getting to see such a huge cast of characters in one story arc. (And Otto's scenes were a delight).

It was worth reading at least. Sorry to see this series end, either way though. It was a fun one.

[chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

The thing is, this was a really good wrap up and made me feel pretty gloomy/melancholy, but Deadpool and Spiderman really went around in circles this whole series and never grew into their best selves. I mean, the end was cute, but it was nowhere even close to being as amazing and fulfilling as the old men arc. That was hands-down the best part of this series. It was sweet and intimate and heart-wrenching and completely slash-and-burn agriculture'd the rest of the comics for me lmao. I'm insanely grateful for this series, I LOVE Robbie Thompson to the end of time, but fanfic has a definitive leg up on the canon (hehe), bolder and more fulfilling than what we were given.

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me: "Gwenpool is the most meta thing I've ever read."

Robbie Thompson: "Hold my beer."

"Eventpool" is a Marvel crossover event unlike any other. Returning from their previous adventure to find the world destroyed and the fourth wall back in full force, Wade and Spider-Man have to join with the remaining heroes to fight for the future of the comics universe that they call home.

It's a ridiculous ride through Marvel comics and beyond, all leading to a dramatic confrontation with a villain unlike any this dynamic duo have ever faced before.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This comic made me laugh out loud in public. It is pretty amazing. The 4th wall is fixed (I know stressful and scary), then meta steps in, and by the end that 4th wall is nice and shattered again.

Or put in poem form

Robbie Thank You for “Eventpool”
I needed to laugh out loud
My life could use
“An asterisk with an explainer”
“An editor” too
Now that the 4th wall is rebroken
And Meta is back in business
Are you free to reboot My life?
My Life could use a new writer, a rewrite
Let's chat when our timelines cross
Have a great day

[Alex Sarll]

Our heroes get back from their road trip to find New York in ruins – did they miss a crossover? Where is everyone, and why can't Deadpool break the fourth wall anymore? Might they be...cancelled? This is the spectacle of a series disappearing up its own metafictionality, and that is in no way a complaint. Enormously entertaining, albeit likely baffling to the casual reader, and I particularly enjoyed 'the third-best Thompson at Marvel''s jokes at his own expense.

[pianogal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not sure I enjoyed the overall arc of this book (Just Eventpool - not the whole series...love it), but I did love Deadpool and all his issues with the fourth wall. Also, it was a little self-satisfying, but I thought putting the writers in at the end was funny. A DP and Spidey teamup is always worth the time.

[Sean · Rating 2 out of 5]

So, I didn't like this. Fourth wall breaking has been a Deadpool staple for a very long time but this just didn't hit for me. There were almost no laughs and few chuckles. Barely a smirk. The overall story was a misfire and the ending ever more so. The art was solid but I just couldn't find it in me to care about what was going on. Overall, not the ending this series deserved.

[Daniel Butcher · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a series, it has hits and misses.

In the end, I get the sense that it may not have "mattered" persay, but at times it was fun, the Sharks, and others tried to hard.

I prefer to see this whole series as something outside of main canon, a multiverse to itself.

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spider-Man/Deadpool, Vol. 9: Eventpool is full of Epic Stunts, Sword Swing, Rib Breaking Humour, Forth Wall Breaking, Heroics, Outrageous Crossovers, Adventure and Action! :D Crisp High Five! :D Get it When You Can! :D

[powell sherrod · Rating 5 out of 5]

And this is how you end a series.

I found the whole joke about Peter not being able to tell Wade his identity really fun, and I know we were all hardcore relating to that author near the end.


ps. make spideypool canon

pps. let wade know who he is please i beg of you

[Piotr · Rating 2 out of 5]

Spider-Man/Deadpool Vol 9
Collects: Spider-Man / Deadpool #46-50

(2⭐) Complete nonsense. Lazy and uninspired, there's no real story here. One of the worst Deadpool runs. Even worse than the previous volume!

[Alan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is singlehandedly the most ridiculous thing I've ever read in my life. I absolutely loved it. Sad to see this amazing run come to an end but what an end it was.

[Tasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume was so much fun, it was a great ending!

[Nicole Westen · Rating 3 out of 5]

What happens to Deadpool when there's a fourth wall? Find out.
Also, the only time Deadpool is 100% right about the problem.

[ellis · Rating 4 out of 5]

empty fun. (a positive trait)

[Bekka · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've loved this series so much as I've read it - I'm so sad to see it end!
That being said, I loved this issue - the jokes, the meta story telling, it was great fun. Exactly what I needed today!