Return of the Living Deadpool is a Deadpool graphic novel that collects issues 1-4 of Return of the Living Deadpool as well as issue 4 of Prelude to Deadpool Corps as a bonus. The main story arc, Return of the Living Deadpool, is written by Cullen Bunn (whose name I recognized from a Star Wars graphic novel that I once read titled Star Wars: Darth Maul) with art by Nik Virella. The story does not feature a lot of color; most of it is black and white except for when red is present (such as blood or Deadpool's costume) or when we see the Deadpool clones' outfits. The story, which is centered in a universe in which there has been a zombie apocalypse as well as an outbreak of murderous Deadpool clones who feed people to the zombies to add to their Deadpool clone army (it's kind of a long story that isn't fully explained in this graphic novel), is really wacky, but I have definitely come to expect that from Deadpool stories. I, however, not only found the plot to be wacky but also a bit convoluted, with some aspects not properly explained. I have to keep two things in mind, however, when I say that - (1) Return of the Living Deadpool draws a great deal of obvious inspiration from prior zombie stories such as its namesake Night of the Living Dead and Return of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later, and The Walking Dead, and seeing as how it is ultimately a horror story, I have always said that horror is most effective when not everything is explained because what we fear most is that which we don't fully understand, and (2) this is actually a sequel to the graphic novel Night of the Living Deadpool, something that I didn't realize until after I was already a long way through reading this one, so some of the missing pieces will most likely be filled in when I go back and read the first graphic novel. I am also not too fond of the bonus issue that is included, which seems mostly to be included at random and is not really too enthralling of a story. (As stated previously, it is issue 4 of Prelude to Deadpool Corps, and it is written by Victor Gischler with art by Juan Viasco and coloring by Edgar Delgado. It involves Deadpool showing up in another universe to find a Deadpool zombie head in order to ask him to join his army of multiverse Deadpools.) One thing that I do find funny about the bonus issue is that there is a pirate captain featured as a character as well as his assistant, and his assistant's name is Mr. Smee. This is an obvious callback to Peter Pan, except the roles are somewhat reversed; the captain is a short rotund man, while Smee is a tall and slender man with a hook as his left hand. I find that to be a bit funny, but aside from that, there is very little to redeem that story. The primary story involving the zombie apocalypse and the horde of Deadpool clones, however, is a story that I very much enjoyed, especially since I really like Liz, the second main character of the story. There are two points of the story when Deadpool sort of breaks the fourth wall (which Deadpool is, of course, wont to do), and Liz says that she isn't going to pretend to know what he's talking about. I found this really funny because when Deadpool breaks the fourth wall, surrounding characters usually either ignore him or seem not to hear him, as they do not directly respond. I also really enjoyed the incarnation of the main Deadpool (even though not even he seems to technically be Deadpool, but I won't say any more than that because I don't want to give too much of the story away in this review). Deadpool is typically not a traditional hero - hardly even a hero at all, in fact. He is called the merc with a mouth not because he is a mouthy hero but because he is a mouthy mercenary, and he is, in fact, often heralded as being one of the most beloved superheroes even though he isn't really a superhero. He is, however, pretty heroic in this particular story, and I really enjoyed that aspect of it. I overall really loved reading Return of the Living Deadpool, but I, as I said, need to go back and read Night of the Living Deadpool.