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Deadpool Classic
Deadpool Classic, Vol. 3
Betrayals both real and imagined on all sides set Deadpool up for a grudge match with archenemy T-Ray, one that leaves our horrific hero stabbed in the heart both figuratively and literally As low as he's ever been, can he really rise to the challenge Landau, Luckman, and Lake have set up for him? But even as he's recovering from defeat by his worst enemy, his oldest enemy is on the way, cutting through Weapon X alumni Guest-starring Bullseye, Typhoid Mary, and the Heroes Eventually Known as the Great Lakes Initiative Plus: The Merc with a Mouth meddles with a classic Lee/Romita Spider-Man story, with both versions featured here Collects Deadpool (1997) #9-17 and Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #47.
275 pages, Paperback
First published December 9, 2009
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January 29, 2020
I have a completely irrational love of Deadpool. I admit it. I know he has weaknesses as a character (mostly that he just won't. shut. up.) but his over-the-top... everything has always appealed to me, especially when I was heavily reading angst-ridden X-books. Story-wise, this volume is particularly good. There's a really fun issue guest-starring Bullseye, an ambitious and sometimes hilarious Forrest Gump-style take on an old Spider-Man comic (reprinted in the collection so you can see how bad it really was), and some serious character arc work. Obviously, Deadpool isn't for everyone, but those that like him (the Kelly version, at least) should really enjoy this volume.
March 4, 2025
The art is always cool in most Deadpool comic issues, but I am always slightly discombobulated by how different artists reinvent all of the characters’ appearances from one issue cycle of continuing comics to the following issues of new plots and adversaries. Plus, the character of Deadpool is one that naturally lands all over the map since he is supposed to be mentally unstable. Writers keep changing who Deadpool is as a person by increasing the satire or reducing it.
I love Deadpool’s madcap bipolar solutions to his problems, which he himself often creates. For readers, it is the shocking not-pc satire which permeates this particular antihero’s adventures, although sometimes writers don’t seem to get it exactly right from year to year, comic series to comic series.
In collections like Deadpool Classic book editions, which include several months, sometimes years, of issues which were released in numerical order, drawn by different artists and written by different writers, readers see how whatever era’s YA interests affected that year’s comic plots, too.
In this collection, there is a particularly funny comic setup when Deadpool goes back in time. He pretends to be Peter Parker - yes, Spider-Man. What Marvel did was take a real Spider-Man comic from 1963 and insert new panels with Deadpool assuming Spider-Man’s identity. It’s hilarious! The original untouched Spider-Man comic is also included at the back. The moral temperature differences of comics written in the 1960’s vs. the wild free-for-all of antiheroes controlling the narrative are Stark (pun intended). Deadpool is also at his motormouth best, dissing all of those clean-cut 1963 attitudes of most comic characters, ripping up any ideas of decency that present themselves to him in his jaunt into the past that used to be in most comics in these early baby-boomer years. It was a very special rebooted comic of snarky Deadpool attitude taking over what was a clean 1963 Spider-Man Frankie-and-Delores Beach Party movie! I really liked this one.
I’ve copied the book blurb below:
”Betrayals both real and imagined on all sides set Deadpool up for a grudge match with archenemy T-Ray, one that leaves our horrific hero stabbed in the heart both figuratively and literally As low as he's ever been, can he really rise to the challenge Landau, Luckman, and Lake have set up for him? But even as he's recovering from defeat by his worst enemy, his oldest enemy is on the way, cutting through Weapon X alumni Guest-starring Bullseye, Typhoid Mary, and the Heroes Eventually Known as the Great Lakes Initiative Plus: The Merc with a Mouth meddles with a classic Lee/Romita Spider-Man story, with both versions featured here Collects Deadpool (1997) #9-17 and Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #47.
I need to mention Deadpool is not for everyone. He is not a good guy except by accident, and often remorse, because he sometimes has a guilty conscience.
I love Deadpool’s madcap bipolar solutions to his problems, which he himself often creates. For readers, it is the shocking not-pc satire which permeates this particular antihero’s adventures, although sometimes writers don’t seem to get it exactly right from year to year, comic series to comic series.
In collections like Deadpool Classic book editions, which include several months, sometimes years, of issues which were released in numerical order, drawn by different artists and written by different writers, readers see how whatever era’s YA interests affected that year’s comic plots, too.
In this collection, there is a particularly funny comic setup when Deadpool goes back in time. He pretends to be Peter Parker - yes, Spider-Man. What Marvel did was take a real Spider-Man comic from 1963 and insert new panels with Deadpool assuming Spider-Man’s identity. It’s hilarious! The original untouched Spider-Man comic is also included at the back. The moral temperature differences of comics written in the 1960’s vs. the wild free-for-all of antiheroes controlling the narrative are Stark (pun intended). Deadpool is also at his motormouth best, dissing all of those clean-cut 1963 attitudes of most comic characters, ripping up any ideas of decency that present themselves to him in his jaunt into the past that used to be in most comics in these early baby-boomer years. It was a very special rebooted comic of snarky Deadpool attitude taking over what was a clean 1963 Spider-Man Frankie-and-Delores Beach Party movie! I really liked this one.
I’ve copied the book blurb below:
”Betrayals both real and imagined on all sides set Deadpool up for a grudge match with archenemy T-Ray, one that leaves our horrific hero stabbed in the heart both figuratively and literally As low as he's ever been, can he really rise to the challenge Landau, Luckman, and Lake have set up for him? But even as he's recovering from defeat by his worst enemy, his oldest enemy is on the way, cutting through Weapon X alumni Guest-starring Bullseye, Typhoid Mary, and the Heroes Eventually Known as the Great Lakes Initiative Plus: The Merc with a Mouth meddles with a classic Lee/Romita Spider-Man story, with both versions featured here Collects Deadpool (1997) #9-17 and Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #47.
I need to mention Deadpool is not for everyone. He is not a good guy except by accident, and often remorse, because he sometimes has a guilty conscience.
July 26, 2013
Deadpool is about as funny as ever, but in this volume, the immediate pleasure of the story is definitely sacrificed to long-term plot plans. We start off with Deathtrap: a villain who traps Deadpool in a mechanism that kills him if he talks; this is the greatest possible villain for Deadpool, but he's unfortunately dispatched with too quickly. This is followed by a crossover with GLA, one of my personal favorite unpopular Marvel teams, leading directly to an incredibly-ambitious-but-really-pretty-boring time travel story revolving around Spider-Man's early years. I'm glad they shot so high for this one, but it didn't really come together. The next six issues are almost no fun at all. It's clear that Kelly has long-term plans, but there are so MANY of them that they're stepping all over each other and not letting anything happen right now. And, in particular, the T-Ray mystery is getting annoying: he and Deadpool finally have it out, Deadpool loses, and then T-Ray slinks off. But there's no explanation of what his problem was, exactly. I'm assuming he'll be back, but between LL&L, Ajax, Typhoid Mary, Blind Al, that hobo guy, Weasel, and T-Ray, this story just has too many plotlines going on. I like a good, well-thought-out storyline, but in this particular chapter, the longer plans are sucking all of the fun out of the individual stories.
Anyway, a good set of explanations and good resolutions will make it all worthwhile, and I'll keep reading, but I didn't enjoy this one very much.
Anyway, a good set of explanations and good resolutions will make it all worthwhile, and I'll keep reading, but I didn't enjoy this one very much.
February 3, 2017
Honestly, I didn't love it. Perhaps part my fault. Read this over a very long period. Picked it up and down a lot. The storyline seemed overly dense and convoluted. Am not really caring much for any of the characters at this point. They're all so bitter and mean. Sure sometimes there's a funny line here and there. But those are too few. I'm dedicated to reading Deadpool's collected editions so I'm hoping I'll find more to like in Vol. 4.
November 13, 2019
the book is kill all the heroes is he kill all for they.
August 19, 2013
I found this set of stories to be middling at best. Parts were good but overall it was kind of a slog to get through.
Spoilers...
Deadpool is that rare character that works better the less developed he is. He's fun as a selfish, childlike, hedonistic mercenary with no moral compass and a thing for chimichangas. When the writers try to make him more human and sympathetic, he stops being fun. That was the biggest problem for me in this collection of (relatively) old stories about the Merc With A Mouth. The first two Deadpool Classic collections had the same pitfall, but it never seemed to get quite so heavy-handed. In this third volume, however, it got to a point where the stories were downright boring. The earlier issues pay lip service to Deadpool being a ruthless killer but they never show him kill anyone. The only time he actually does execute someone, the attempt fails because the guy is immortal and can't die. The last couple of stories are much better and remedy this greatly (especially the one where he teams up with Bullseye) but for way too long a stretch Deadpool's teeth are removed and the whole enterprise feels watered down.
There were good points, though, that made it ultimately a worthwhile read. Deadpool is still pretty damn funny (although some of the jokes miss). And I loved the idea of having him and Blind Al stuck in an old Spider-Man book. This section featured some of the funniest bits, because it was commenting on how comics were written in Stan Lee's heyday (and, as much as we all love Stan the Man, the books back then were super corny). The attempts at hip dialogue are mocked mercilessly by Wade and Al. Deadpool's digs at the Osbournes' hair are hysterical, and he and Al both think Mary Jane is a complete moron (though, of course, Deadpool can't help but think this will make her an easy target for his lust). I also enjoyed the return on Landau, Luckman and Lake. While their designs on Deadpool aren't yet clear, there are new clues presented -- as well as the notion that LL&L may not be as benevolent as they had previously appeared. This makes their constant talk of Deadpool being a hero with a destiny much more palatable. And I'm interested in knowing what Ajax is up to.
It sucks when one of the most fun characters in comicdom reads so boring. I think it took a while for them to really figure out how to best use Deadpool. Hopefully the next couple of Classics right the course.
Spoilers...
Deadpool is that rare character that works better the less developed he is. He's fun as a selfish, childlike, hedonistic mercenary with no moral compass and a thing for chimichangas. When the writers try to make him more human and sympathetic, he stops being fun. That was the biggest problem for me in this collection of (relatively) old stories about the Merc With A Mouth. The first two Deadpool Classic collections had the same pitfall, but it never seemed to get quite so heavy-handed. In this third volume, however, it got to a point where the stories were downright boring. The earlier issues pay lip service to Deadpool being a ruthless killer but they never show him kill anyone. The only time he actually does execute someone, the attempt fails because the guy is immortal and can't die. The last couple of stories are much better and remedy this greatly (especially the one where he teams up with Bullseye) but for way too long a stretch Deadpool's teeth are removed and the whole enterprise feels watered down.
There were good points, though, that made it ultimately a worthwhile read. Deadpool is still pretty damn funny (although some of the jokes miss). And I loved the idea of having him and Blind Al stuck in an old Spider-Man book. This section featured some of the funniest bits, because it was commenting on how comics were written in Stan Lee's heyday (and, as much as we all love Stan the Man, the books back then were super corny). The attempts at hip dialogue are mocked mercilessly by Wade and Al. Deadpool's digs at the Osbournes' hair are hysterical, and he and Al both think Mary Jane is a complete moron (though, of course, Deadpool can't help but think this will make her an easy target for his lust). I also enjoyed the return on Landau, Luckman and Lake. While their designs on Deadpool aren't yet clear, there are new clues presented -- as well as the notion that LL&L may not be as benevolent as they had previously appeared. This makes their constant talk of Deadpool being a hero with a destiny much more palatable. And I'm interested in knowing what Ajax is up to.
It sucks when one of the most fun characters in comicdom reads so boring. I think it took a while for them to really figure out how to best use Deadpool. Hopefully the next couple of Classics right the course.
May 14, 2013
Contains Deadpool #9-17 and Amazing Spider-man #47. This collection begins with a comic interlude, a one-off villain and a trip back in time which drops Deadpool in the middle of a classic Spiderman issue. The change of pace may be necessary and the Spiderman rewrite engages some ruthless self-mockery, but it's disappointing to put aside the question of Deadpool's morality. When it picks that back up, the collection improves. As he nears rock bottom, Deadpool's identity crisis grows less theoretical and more explicit; despite its thematic relevance the overarching plot is unremarkable, but what's more interesting is Deadpool's problematic interactions with peers and would-be friends. The art in these issues is all over the place, because of the brief return to 1960s comic style but largely as a result of multiple artists who fail to hold to a single standard. But Kelly's writing continues to improve: it's far from flawless and the straight humor isn't to my taste, but Deadpool's smart mouth and toxic personality are a compelling and deadly pair. I'm enjoying this series immensely, and recommend it.
January 25, 2016
The stories in this set show the darker side of Deadpool. It includes a time travel story that contrastins him with the "great responsibility" of a cleanbut 1967 Spiderman, and another arc where he completely snaps, dangerously turning on Blind Al and Weasel. The theme is further defined as: Can a PSYCHOPATH be saved? I'd put these books alongside The Punisher as not for the kiddies in spite of Deadpool's Cookie Monster houseslippers.
January 16, 2020
I recall reading these issues when they came out in the nineties, and while I some of the jokes fall rather flatter now than I remember them at the time, and this version of Deadpool has a definite "No homo" vibe that I find a bit off putting, and he is far from sympathetic, particularly when abusing Al and Weasel on panel, he is, of course, meant to be a bad person who is trying to change his ways to become good. While some of the jokes and references aren't fresh, others are still very funny (particularly the one issue that he travels back in time to interact with the Spider-Man supporting cast). This is a fairly good era for Deadpool, but I think they get better a little after this. Nonetheless, despite showing its age a bit, this is a solid book.
December 11, 2016
Πάνε πολλά χρόνια από τότε που διάβασα τα τεύχη που περιέχονται εδώ, αλλά αν είναι να διαβάσετε ένα τομάκι Deadpool τότε αυτό είναι που πρέπει να πάρετε. Το Deadpool #11 που περιέχεται εδώ μέσα είναι ένα από τα καλύτερα τεύχη που έχει βγάλει ποτέ η Marvel και εδώ είναι ουσιαστικά που γεννήθηκε και ο χαρακτήρας του Deadpool που είδαμε στην ταινία.
September 18, 2019
Dead Pool and the old girl live in a home or a serced hindout trying to go to the furch everthing when well but they have some problems happen that the thing do not work deadpool got mad thing do not go they when plan, but somehow deadpool when to the furch talk back a lot of times, so deadpool do his own wade he kell everbooy or not ever booy.
October 30, 2020
This book was okay, I just couldn’t pick it up like I didn’t go into it with much interest, I thought it was okay, I really did like the addition with Spider-Man, the Spider-Man issues are particularly what kept me interested in the book even if it’s Deadpool, overall it’s okay just is kind of slow and mostly conversation not much action.
December 29, 2025
Ciekawe historie - walka z T-Rayem i "utonięcie" Deadpoola, cofnięcie się do przeszłości i udawanie Petera Parkera.
Zeszyty w antologii:
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #9
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #10
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #11
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #12
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #13
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #14
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #15
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #16
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #17
Amazing Spider-Man #47
Zeszyty w antologii:
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #9
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #10
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #11
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #12
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #13
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #14
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #15
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #16
Deadpool (Vol. 3) #17
Amazing Spider-Man #47
September 3, 2018
Ooof. Volume 3 of Deadpool is bizarre, but not in a good way. To describe it in one word, it's irritating. Deadpool isn't funny; he just mopes around the entire book feeling sorry for himself and doing really wacked up shit that isn't entertaining or interesting; it's just weird.
May 28, 2020
An uneven volume. Some very good issues but the time-travel story to Silver Age Spider-Man land dragged on too long and the Blind Al in the box issue was unappealing, though redeemed later on by Deadpool's surprise remorse.
June 3, 2017
Another great collection
The Deadpool classic saga is really engaging you will not be able to stop reading every issue.
Definitely worth buying.
The Deadpool classic saga is really engaging you will not be able to stop reading every issue.
Definitely worth buying.
May 17, 2018
So much SASS.
August 2, 2018
The Merc with a Mouth is at it again. Crazies are after him. He's being duped. Weasel realizes how crazy Wade really is and Blind Al won't give up. Tough love commences.
December 3, 2019
Calificación: 6
February 3, 2020
Read these last year, one here, one there. I do like it, but I find it best in small doses.
March 14, 2020
i feel like these comics are finally hitting their stride, but i just keep getting irritated with wade as a character
December 28, 2021
Ow yeah, Deadpool at his finest !
Just love that sassiness ^^
Just love that sassiness ^^
April 6, 2023
بداية بطيئة بس الإشيوز الأخيرين عيبوني جداً.....
September 6, 2024
I love him
February 3, 2016
A very reluctant three stars.
Once again, Deadpool tries cramming so many jokes into his pages that they cease to be funny at all. And, once again, Deadpool treats his friends like such shit that I can't believe they tolerate him.
He's just such an unlikable character. The way I've always figured it, there are two types of anti-hero: the bad guy who eventually succumbs to his conscience and does the right thing at the end (think Riddick from Pitch Black), or the good guy who does heroic things all the time but has morally questionable methods (think Wolverine from the X-men). Deadpool is neither of these things. Deadpool makes people's lives miserable and takes great pleasure in it.
Then, in the extremely rare circumstances of him doing something heroic, it feels like such a conflict with his character that I don't actually buy it. It's as if the writers said, "Hey, you know that thing where the monster starts to feel bad about the pain he's caused, and decides to do what's right? Let's do that, I like that."
You can't just pick a cliche and expect us all to accept it. The actions need to make sense with the established character. And that's not the case here.
I got to the point where I was actually rooting for T-Ray to beat Deadpool. T-Ray. The big albino dope with a bandaid for a nose. I wanted him to win, just like I wanted Weasel and Blind Al to abandon Deadpool, no matter how mopey he might get.
So, why the three stars instead of two (or even one)? Well, in the last half or so of the collection, instead of having "The Stupid Weekly Adventures of This Total Asshole," we actually start to delve into a larger story arc that interested me. I found myself wanting to know more. And by the end (where the arc wasn't yet resolved, mind you--meaning I'm gonna have to read volume 4), Deadpool had spent several issues being mopey instead of aggressively unlikable. When he first started doing this, he had no sympathy from me, based on his previous actions. And he still doesn't get my sympathy at this point, but now that he's at least spent a few issues not being a huge dickfore, I haven't been actively hating him so much.
If this trend can continue, and if we can keep Deadpool from reverting to the jerk he's been since the beginning of this series, then I could see myself just forgetting about the earlier issues and eventually liking him. We'll see how things go.
In any case, I'm still excited for the upcoming film, because I can't imagine the filmmakers trying to bring this version of Deadpool to the screen--he needs to be likable, and I'm confident that will be the case.
Once again, Deadpool tries cramming so many jokes into his pages that they cease to be funny at all. And, once again, Deadpool treats his friends like such shit that I can't believe they tolerate him.
He's just such an unlikable character. The way I've always figured it, there are two types of anti-hero: the bad guy who eventually succumbs to his conscience and does the right thing at the end (think Riddick from Pitch Black), or the good guy who does heroic things all the time but has morally questionable methods (think Wolverine from the X-men). Deadpool is neither of these things. Deadpool makes people's lives miserable and takes great pleasure in it.
Then, in the extremely rare circumstances of him doing something heroic, it feels like such a conflict with his character that I don't actually buy it. It's as if the writers said, "Hey, you know that thing where the monster starts to feel bad about the pain he's caused, and decides to do what's right? Let's do that, I like that."
You can't just pick a cliche and expect us all to accept it. The actions need to make sense with the established character. And that's not the case here.
I got to the point where I was actually rooting for T-Ray to beat Deadpool. T-Ray. The big albino dope with a bandaid for a nose. I wanted him to win, just like I wanted Weasel and Blind Al to abandon Deadpool, no matter how mopey he might get.
So, why the three stars instead of two (or even one)? Well, in the last half or so of the collection, instead of having "The Stupid Weekly Adventures of This Total Asshole," we actually start to delve into a larger story arc that interested me. I found myself wanting to know more. And by the end (where the arc wasn't yet resolved, mind you--meaning I'm gonna have to read volume 4), Deadpool had spent several issues being mopey instead of aggressively unlikable. When he first started doing this, he had no sympathy from me, based on his previous actions. And he still doesn't get my sympathy at this point, but now that he's at least spent a few issues not being a huge dickfore, I haven't been actively hating him so much.
If this trend can continue, and if we can keep Deadpool from reverting to the jerk he's been since the beginning of this series, then I could see myself just forgetting about the earlier issues and eventually liking him. We'll see how things go.
In any case, I'm still excited for the upcoming film, because I can't imagine the filmmakers trying to bring this version of Deadpool to the screen--he needs to be likable, and I'm confident that will be the case.
February 24, 2017
I really love this Deadpool. I thought it was so funny especially the Spider-Man story. This Was awesome. I cant wait to start the next one!
July 24, 2023
#1 deadpool classic, vol. 1 ★★★☆☆
#2 deadpool classic, vol. 2★★☆☆☆
#3 deadpool classic, vol. 3 ★★★☆☆
#4 deadpool classic, vol. 4 ★★☆☆☆
#5 deadpool classic, vol. 5 ★★★☆☆
#6 deadpool classic, vol. 6 ★★☆☆☆
#7 deadpool classic, vol. 7 ★☆☆☆☆
#8 deadpool classic, vol. 8 ★★☆☆☆
#9 deadpool classic, vol. 9 ★★☆☆☆
#11 deadpool classic, vol. 11: deadpool: merc with a mouth ★★★☆☆
#12 deadpool classic, vol. 12: deadpool corps ★★★☆☆
#13 deadpool classic, vol. 13: deadpool team-up ★★★★☆
#14 deadpool classic, vol. 14: suicide kings ★★★☆☆
#15 deadpool classic, vol. 15: all the rest ★★★☆☆
#17 deadpool classic, vol. 17: headcanon ★★★☆☆
by far the best part of this collection is deadpool's relationships with weasel and al
cw: ableism, violence, fatphobia, rape,
#2 deadpool classic, vol. 2★★☆☆☆
#3 deadpool classic, vol. 3 ★★★☆☆
#4 deadpool classic, vol. 4 ★★☆☆☆
#5 deadpool classic, vol. 5 ★★★☆☆
#6 deadpool classic, vol. 6 ★★☆☆☆
#7 deadpool classic, vol. 7 ★☆☆☆☆
#8 deadpool classic, vol. 8 ★★☆☆☆
#9 deadpool classic, vol. 9 ★★☆☆☆
#11 deadpool classic, vol. 11: deadpool: merc with a mouth ★★★☆☆
#12 deadpool classic, vol. 12: deadpool corps ★★★☆☆
#13 deadpool classic, vol. 13: deadpool team-up ★★★★☆
#14 deadpool classic, vol. 14: suicide kings ★★★☆☆
#15 deadpool classic, vol. 15: all the rest ★★★☆☆
#17 deadpool classic, vol. 17: headcanon ★★★☆☆
by far the best part of this collection is deadpool's relationships with weasel and al
cw: ableism, violence, fatphobia, rape,
March 6, 2019
I really liked this comic, i love it.
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May 29, 2017
I don't give five star ratings to many books, but this trade deserves it. I love how Kelly writes Deadpool; although Deadpool is funny (and he genuinely is), he also has a lot of depth to him. Most modern-day Deadpool interpretations are shallow and stupid - especially Way's take on the character, which is plain awful. Joe Kelly can write laps around him.
This trade contains some of my favorite issues as well - the Spider-Man retake (which is hilarious) and the arc "Drowning Man," which is arguably the best Deadpool arc ever written, bar none. I won't spoil it, but Joe Kelly manages to write a life-defining moment in a complex, convoluted way - and Deadpool, whose grip on sanity is loose at best, reacts in a way that is totally in character. It's shocking, it's saddening, it's infuriating - it's the best.
Okay, I'm done gushing about Joe Kelly (for now), but he's not the only one who deserves some gushing. Ed McGuinness illustrates one issue, and I like his "cartoony" style. The next several are illustrated by Nathan Massengill, whom I've never heard of before, but his style is a lot like McGuinness' so I really enjoyed it. I'd definitely be interested in seeing more from him.
Altogether, this is an excellent trade, and it's LEAGUES better than the current Deadpool crap that's being churned out right now. The character is three-dimensional, genuinely funny, and plain readable. He's bad, but you want to root for him anyway. This is the Deadpool I love.
This trade contains some of my favorite issues as well - the Spider-Man retake (which is hilarious) and the arc "Drowning Man," which is arguably the best Deadpool arc ever written, bar none. I won't spoil it, but Joe Kelly manages to write a life-defining moment in a complex, convoluted way - and Deadpool, whose grip on sanity is loose at best, reacts in a way that is totally in character. It's shocking, it's saddening, it's infuriating - it's the best.
Okay, I'm done gushing about Joe Kelly (for now), but he's not the only one who deserves some gushing. Ed McGuinness illustrates one issue, and I like his "cartoony" style. The next several are illustrated by Nathan Massengill, whom I've never heard of before, but his style is a lot like McGuinness' so I really enjoyed it. I'd definitely be interested in seeing more from him.
Altogether, this is an excellent trade, and it's LEAGUES better than the current Deadpool crap that's being churned out right now. The character is three-dimensional, genuinely funny, and plain readable. He's bad, but you want to root for him anyway. This is the Deadpool I love.
September 15, 2016
What do you think when you see this cover? **** is about the hit the fan, and this time it involves a huge monster!
This issue follows the story right where we left off. Deadpool is still struggling with the thought of being a villain. Is he really a bad guy?
Well, this issue shows us a very dark side of Deadpool through the eyes of Blind Al. You start to question Deadpool when you see how he punishes her and how he acted to her in the past. Then, when Blind Al answers to him as his slave (on purpose), we can see how deeply frustrated Deadpool really is after his encounter with Typhoid Mary.
But that isn't the highlight of this book. The real show comes when Deadpool gets his re-match against T-Ray! If you think Deadpool is undefeatable, you might think again on that matter.
Then, we have our little cross-over with Spider-Man. Deadpool gets sucked in an issue of Spider-Man, where he becomes Peter Parker in search of young Weasel to help him get back to his own time. A funny part of this book, which gives you an inside look at how Weasel was before he met the Merc.
As a bonus, they added the original issue of the Spider-Man comic which was a bit changed for Deadpool.
This issue follows the story right where we left off. Deadpool is still struggling with the thought of being a villain. Is he really a bad guy?
Well, this issue shows us a very dark side of Deadpool through the eyes of Blind Al. You start to question Deadpool when you see how he punishes her and how he acted to her in the past. Then, when Blind Al answers to him as his slave (on purpose), we can see how deeply frustrated Deadpool really is after his encounter with Typhoid Mary.
But that isn't the highlight of this book. The real show comes when Deadpool gets his re-match against T-Ray! If you think Deadpool is undefeatable, you might think again on that matter.
Then, we have our little cross-over with Spider-Man. Deadpool gets sucked in an issue of Spider-Man, where he becomes Peter Parker in search of young Weasel to help him get back to his own time. A funny part of this book, which gives you an inside look at how Weasel was before he met the Merc.
As a bonus, they added the original issue of the Spider-Man comic which was a bit changed for Deadpool.
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