11/8/2022 0 Comments Deadpool 1 review![]() ![]() The second story contained in the Annual #1, titled Nü Flesh is… well, let’s just say I had no idea what the hell was happening. ![]() I feel that long-time fans and new readers will be engrossed (and hopefully, grossed-out) by the first three-quarters of this annual edition. Duggan and Posehn provide top-notch comedy writing in this section, with plenty of references to the recent movie (and the inevitable sequel) and lame puns galore. There are in-jokes, references to pop culture, a healthy smattering of excessive violence, and (dare I say it?), a bit of a mysterious air about the whole thing. All the hallmarks of what makes Deadpool just a bonafide cultural phenomenon are present. What commences is about one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long while. It goes just about as well as you can suspect. But unlike the typically sterile confrontations between heroes and villains of the Reagan Era, Deadpool unleashes his, let’s say, singular brand of shoot-first-and- don’t-ask-questions-later philosophy to the proceedings. In their search for Spider-Man, the trio encounters the machinations of the Sinister Six. In short, Peter Parker inexplicably disappears and, needing a roommate Angelica Jones and Bobby Drake (Firestar and Iceman, respectively, who share an apartment with Peter) sublet their already limited space to our favorite Merc with a Mouth, Wade Wilson. (Lil’ Deadpool himself pitches the story as the basis for a new TV series, and Koblish draws the story in the cheap animation style of the era). Subtitled DEADPOOL AND HIS INSUFFERABLE PALS, the story is an obvious tribute/rip-off of Spiderman and his Amazing Friends from the ’80s. ![]() There’s certainly a gimmick to the first story, written by Gerry Duggan & Brian Posehn and drawn by Scott Koblish, but it’s an engrossing one! It’s by far the stronger of the two narratives provided in the issue and within the first few pages of this new annual, readers will sense they’re in for something special. ![]()
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