DEADPOOL #24

Review by: TheNextChampion

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WRITER: Daniel Way
PENCILS: Carlo Barberi
INKS: Juan Vlasco
LETTERED BY: VC - Joe Sabino
COVER BY: Jason Pearson

Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99

This is going to be a shock for most of you when you read this next sentence. For the first time, since the Thunderbolts crossover to be honest, Daniel Way wrote a weak issue.

Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t bad per say. However with all of the advancements of making Wilson ‘somewhat’ of a hero, or at least making him have more good intentions, it feels like Way has totally dropped the hero angle. I like seeing Weasel and Grizzy, and there are good interactions with the two with Deadpool. It brings back a sense of good old feelings from the good old days with Joe Kelly. The plot isn’t interesting though, some of the jokes really fall flat, and on a whole it just isn’t very imaginative. Way has done a good job making each arc feel unique but here…..it feels like another old comic book.

Art by Barberi is also a bit lacking. Since he is the lost brother of Paco Medina the book is still consistant looking. Once in a while though, Barberi shows why he is different from Medina. Mainly because his character anatomy is off and the faces can be quite hideous. The inks by Vlasco and colors by Gracia try to keep it from getting too wonky. However, you will cringe at some of these panels.

I know what you’re saying Deadpool haters. “Ha! See now TNC? Daniel Way has finally lost his touch with this series! He was never a good writer and this series is total rubbish.’ First off your wrong. Yes this isn’t the best issue ever, but not every single issue of Way’s series has been perfect. I say it has always been consistantly good to me and it is still, by miles, better then anyother Deadpool product by Marvel. This issue however is a tad boring, the art is a bit iffy, and the idea of Wilson becoming a hero seems to have been dropped all together. It’s still a solid issue at the end of the day, but I do hope the final issue for this arc ends on a strong note.

Story: 3 - Good
Art: 3 - Good

Comments

  1. I agree that this issue wasn’t quite up to par but it was still alright. You told me you dropped Merc with a Mouth after 3 issues. Actually, it was a better read this week but I’m getting tired of the zombie stuff. I dropped the Deadpool Corps stuff in the middle of the preludes and I picked up the first issue of the new Deapool stuff. I’m still waiting for Way to top his Deadpool Hawkeye/Bullseye story.

     

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  2. A few months ago, I read a column which discussed this book in context with the overall Marvel universe. Since the beginning of this particular book, it has often been tied into the central arcs … stories involving Deadpool were somewhat central to Secret Invasion and Dark Reign (although they certainly weren’t pivotal), then, as I recall, Deadpool went on this strange but funny foray into being a pirate before landing in San Francisco trying to join the X-Men, and exerting a peripheral influence on the Utopia story.

    I don’t see Way dropping the "Deadpool being a hero" angle here … Deadpool being a sidekick of Weasel in Vegas is a variant of that theme more or less–so it is just more subtle in this current arc.

    What I think is interesting, though, is that the arc for the moment seems independent of anything else going on in the rest of the Marvel Universe … which, however weak the story may feel to some, I think is good for the book in the long run. If this book is finally striking out its own for good, then I’m definitely sticking it out, because I think it has been fairly entertaining up until now.

    Finally, while I too enjoyed the reappearance of an old Deadpool regular, I disliked the disappearance of Deadpool’s ongoing three-way internal monologue.

     

    http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/04/09/how-deadpool-became-the-most-exposed-character-in-comics-and-wh/ 

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