DEADPOOL #4
Momar Van Der Camp

 

 

Published by Marvel Comics
Written by Daniel Way
Art by Paco Medina and Carlo Barberi

DP gets a new job! He gets to kill a doc turning his patients into zombies, sounds like fun right?


Commentary:
As usual, Deadpool comes out with a win in the fun category. The book has not yet disappointed in that. There is an art change here, which is almost completely unnoticeable, truthfully, as the artists play together so well that it seems strange. Not the best book of the week, but a downright fun one.
 

So, Deadpool lost the money and the contract from Nick Fury last ish when Norman Osborn stole the plans that he was going to steal himself. So Wade called on an old friend, one with a hairpiece problem and a really hot younger wife, to get him a job. Turns out the younger wife went to get some work done and ended up turning herself into a zombie. Fun! Anyway, Wade does his usual idiot junk saying he's supposed to kill the wife in a joking fashion, and he goes to Transylvania or whatever town/country the doc happens to reside in and starts his war.

Of course, he previously realized that the weapons he was carrying felt odd, like the weight was off in the Liefeldian guns he carried, and he was right. His new boss was having him followed by other mercs to make sure he got the jump done. Being the nutso creep job Wade is, he offed those guys pretty quickly. And we're then set up for issue 2 in this run.

What I like about this book is the way Way (ha) continues to characterize Wade. As a nutjob. Someone who talks to himself and talks to himself talking to himself. I was unsure about it in Origins, but I'm starting to really love it. Try not to laugh when Wade fashions a chair out of C4 and is oddly more comfortable in that then a comfy leather chair. It's odd. When he sees people in the way that only he can (World's #2 Grandpa) it's weird, but it works. This is the kind of crazy that the writers of Moon Knight haven't been able to find and instead just make him a sociopath. But Wade seems to truly have multiple personalities now. It's odd.

The art is great. It's gotten better as the issues have gone on. Barberi was a worry when I saw his because his art has always seemed super-manga-y like Humberto Ramos on speed, so I didn't know if it would fit here, but he seems to have toned it down and brought it to another way. He and Paco almost mesh together here and it's difficult to tell one from the other. Again, the hallucinations still don't work for me, but I can't fault an entire 22 page issue on one panel (I've done it before though). So still an overall great issue.
 

 

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