Release Date: February 26th, 2014
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Written By: Brian Posehn & Gerry Duggan
Art By: Mike Hawthorne
Colors By: Jordie Bellaire
Price: 2.99
Review:
Deadpool keeps the insanity coming as most of this issue is spent up inside his cracked and broken mind. Cameos from the entire run of this reboot show up in this issue as the main storyline comes to a conclusion and seeds for new doors, possibilities, and nuttiness are planted.
Agent Preston finally gets her Life Model Decoy body and she has got to be relieved to be out of Deadpool’s mind. I mean, she deserves a Medal of Honor and an early retirement full of salaries just for not going insane after having spent that long inside that lunatic’s brain. Dealing with all of Wade’s personalities and issues while still maintaining one’s own sanity is worse than anything any villain could come up with. Coulson and Adsit transfer Preston’s consciousness into the LMD but Gorman has one last ace up his sleeve as he sabotages the process. With the help of Dr Strange, Ben Franklin’s spirit, the homeless magician, and Wade Wilson’s own ridiculousness, everything turns out ok in the end and she gets her body and family back. The writing in this book is so damn good it’s painful to read sometimes. Deadpool is only allowed one or two thought provoking issues a year and this is one of them. It shows why he’s so crazy popular and still the most random, insane character in comic books today. The poor guy still thinks Preston is in his head talking to him and his other voice. There’s also the moment he meets a new Zen, monk-bead-wearing, Jedi master personality inside his own mind who claims to know all of his psyche in and out. Oh and there’s PocketPool. Can’t forget that barely-veiled sexual innuendo disguised as a cute little baby version of Wade. After all the dust is settled and Wade has a drink, Crossbones finally finds our “hero” alone at the bar. Imagine the battiness going on in h is head after being stuck in the air in a hot-air balloon for that long.
The art in this isn’t the top tier blowout artwork in Marvel’s flagship titles but who cares? We don’t need the most detailed, super rendered artwork to make one of the best comics on the market feturing one of the most liked characters ever. The loose lines and jagged pencils fit perfectly in the twisted world of Deadpool and the rest of his misfit cast. The facial expressions alone are worth the price of admission. All the beautifully drawn versions of Wilson were probably a blast to draw and the action scenes work perfectly for the moment. While this issue has a ton of monologue and self contemplation, something we’re not used to with Wade, the art chores are still momentous with the amount of characters and different personalities in this issue.
Overall this book continued the masterful storytelling and nonstop debauchery that is Deadpool and still peppered in a TON load of emotional and mental baggage. The series as a whole is definitely my favorite run of Deadpool stories and is quite possibly the funniest damn book on the market right now. If this character development keeps up, Wade Wilson might turn into a respectable…no…no. No he won’t. Ever. And that’s why we all love him.
On a side note, 1 to 10, how creepy is this…?
I give it an 18! The cover to issue #23.