Once again props should go to Dave Johnson for such a great cover. I really think he’s the best cover artist in the business today. His ideas for covers, especially for this series, are so imaginative and I’m sure you couldn’t get another artist to come up with covers like these. Anyways, on the site I said that this particular issue had to be downright perfect for me to continue and guess what? It wasn’t perfect. But can you also guess this? I’m actually going to continue this series.

Before you roll your eyes and say I’m suffering from ‘Deadpoolitis’ (also known as X-Menitis which Ron suffers from) I will say that this issue had a lot going for it. I loved the opening sequence of this issue with Deadpool being a slob of a ‘husband’ to Death. It was a nice series of images and it got me thinking that Death has rotten luck with men. Death is still a female in Marvel continuity and if her idea of men are Thanos and Deadpool then she needs to raise her standards a bit. Further on we get a nice action sequence in this with a riot and it’s handled pretty well. The issue does suffer a bit from an overly long explanation of Foolkiller getting parole….Or is he? Plus I realized how much I missed the narration boxes because it hasn’t been used in a while and there are some good jokes in here.

Carlos Barberi also delivers some pretty good looking pages. With the sequences I already mentioned he puts a good amount of detail into each page. A lot of blood, are in these pages with some shocking skeletons to be shown too. I definitely liked how over the top the tazering was in this issue. Also there’s a nice nod to previous adventures of Deadpool with his ‘reruns’ in the opening sequence. A nice Easter Egg if you can see it. The only problem I had with the art was that Dr. Whitbee still looks pretty inconsistent. The script actually mentions she is suppose to be ‘ugly’ (in Deadpool’s standards) but her looks constantly change from page to page.

So while the issue wasn’t perfect, this issue was pretty damn good overall. I wasn’t expecting anything out of this after two previous, poor outings. But this issue had a good amount of strong jokes and also good action sequences as well. Maybe this issue only gave it one more shot for me in the long run, maybe I won’t be reading this title a couple of months in time. In the end it’s nice to see that Daniel Way has some surprises up his sleeve to make the decision of dropping all the more painful to decide for a huge fan like myself.