Review: Deadpool 1
If you don’t love Deadpool, then you don’t love America.
There. I said it.
What? What’s that America-hater? You don’t even know who Deadpool is? Well, let me explain, and maybe we can save your soul after all.
Deadpool is Wade Wilson, a product of Weapon X, just like Wolverine! But Wade had terminal cancer, so they shot him up with some of Wolvie’s regenerative power — but it kind of disfigured him and drove him insane.
Previous Deadpool stories have involved kidnapping and torturing an elderly blind woman and kind of dying and being reborn as some guy named Alex, only to switch back later to being Deadpool. Sound weird? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Because Deadpool #1, available tomorrow, is pretty messed up. Wade is fighting Skrulls, you see, but with a very odd objective — which you’ll find out if you read it all the way to the end?
And why wouldn’t you? Are you lazy or something? Or is it because you keep going back and laughing at his weird hallucinations or the way everything he sees looks like a video game and he’s getting points for slaughtering bumpy-chinned green space invaders?
The truth is, this issue, penned by Daniel Way with art by Paco “Funky Cold” Medina, isn’t long on story. But it is long on awesome. It’s funny. The art is great. It’s funny. Also, there’s a funniness about it. A funosity.
It’s funny, you see. And it’s classic Deadpool, too. The reason you have to love the character is because he’s insane. It’s the same reason we love the Joker. They can do anything, even if it seems counter-intuitive, because they are not in their right minds. And that’s good crazy, folks.
– Greg Elwell
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I will definitely be checking this out. He’s climbing fast to one of my favorite characters around.