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Advance Review: Deadpool #1 Would Like Moviegoers to Pick This One Up

Published Tue, 05 Jun 2018 12:00:16 -0500

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It's not like Deadpool hasn't tried to appeal to the Deadpool moviegoer before. But the new Deadpool monthly series launching tomorrow is really going for the movie jugular. Deadpool 2 is out, has done the business, and Marvel Comics would like a bit of the action. They weren't able to see the movie before the comic was published, but they did revive some of the more popular aspects of the first movie.

I mean, it's so on the nose that it even begins, takes place in a cinema.

Note the leather aspect of Deadpool's costume, and the black and yellow of Negasonic Teenage Warhead's suit, as she is rebooted to be his personal secretary. And it's the movie version of the character rather than the previous comic book version. This new comic book relationship retconning is explained away in the comic by… saying it's a retcon. That kind of lampshading is a very neat solution and also underlines exactly what kind of comic book this will be.

The art from Nic Klein, and then Scott Hepburn and Ian Herring, keeps things scrappy and pulpy looking, rejecting clean lines in favour of something a little sketchy though just as polished. There's a lot going into each page, and the teams are strong in creating a reality for all this to happen, with a more realistic and grounded art style helping to stop the cartoony silly stuff from escaping what one might expect from a Marvel comic book.

And just as the movie took the piss out of Rob Liefeld (that he was most happy with), Deadpool #1 also riffs on the kind of Deadpool comic book iconography that the second movie did — and Rob Liefeld also did with his new Brigade comic book. Time to weaponise those pouches.

And remember the violation of the plush unicorn in the first movie? And used for posters for the second? Well, the new comic book is all about reviving that kind of idea while keeping it as PG-13 as they can get away with. So yes, the unicorn is back, and there's only one place it's going to end up on the end of…

But for all of this, Deadpool #1 is interested in keeping Deadpool interacting with the rest of the Marvel superheroes since, unlike the movie, that's exactly what it can do. Indeed, just as Marvel's Avengers' events are seeing Celestials coming to Earth, so Deadpool has his very own Celestial to deal with — and the Guardians of the Galaxy know how important Deadpool will be for that.

For all its tricks, it is a silly comic, playing with the form and the audience just as the movie did. And that's probably the point. if you can't wait for X-Force, this should do very nicely indeed.

DEADPOOL #1
(W) Skottie Young (A/CA) Nic Klein
MERCIN' FOR A LIVING!
Skottie Young and Nic Klein bring you the craziest tales of the Regeneratin' Degenerate yet! It's been a while since Deadpool's had to merc to make ends meet, but things are tough all over. While Deadpool tries to get his humble mercenary-for-hire business back off the ground, a catastrophic threat so unfathomably huge, so mind-breakingly cataclysmic it defies description, is heading toward Earth, and there's only ONE PERSON WHO CAN STOP IT!!!
Oh no, wait…it's not Wade, is it? Oh, %$@#. It's Wade.
Parental Advisory In Shops: Jun 06, 2018
SRP: $4.99

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