'Deadpool Kills Deadpool' – Cullen Bunn & Salva Espin (Marvel)



It's going to be another short post today and not because of a slight 'post Christmas' hangover... Keep reading and all will become clear.

'Deadpool Kills Deadpool' is the final part of the 'Deadpool Killogy' where an alternate universe Deadpool realises that everyone in his universe is part of a story that they have no control over. What's a Deadpool got to do in order to tease the writers out of hiding and kill them? Well, once he's killed every hero and villain in the Marvel Universe then moved into the Realm of Ideas and killed all your favourite literary characters there's only one thing to do... Go through every strand of the Multiverse and kill off the one thing that he hasn't killed yet, himself...
Luckily for us, 'our' Deadpool isn't having any of that and neither are a whole bunch of other Deadpool's that you haven't met yet.

So yeah, I probably should have written something about 'Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe' and 'Deadpool Killustrated' before reviewing 'Deadpool Kills Deadpool'. Sometimes that's just the way the TBR pile throws em' out and being completely honest, I haven't been great about reading things in order just recently. Maybe that's a New Year's Resolution that I need to make for the blog. The bottom line though is that you don't necessarily have to read the first two books before you pick up this one. I'd read them anyway (they're good) but the neat little 'story so far' page, in 'Deadpool Kills Deadpool', gets you up to speed nicely.

There is a lot to like about 'Deadpool Kills Deadpool' and if you're a fan you'll know what I mean. In between moments of clarity, Deadpool does what he does best, namely kill fools and crack jokes while he does it. Cullen Bunn is a Deadpool veteran so gets exactly what our 'hero' is all about, not only that but he reintroduces the Deadpool Corps as well which was just the best for this long term reader (and I must go back and review that book sometime...) Not only that but he has a lot of fun introducing us to a whole Multiverse full of Deadpools. If you can think of it, Bunn probably writes it and there's a lot of subtle, and not so subtle, nods to other Marvel heroes and villains. It's like 'Where's Wally' but everyone is a Deadpool. Salva Espin's art does really well to keep up with all the Deadpools and the increasing demands of Bunn's writing.

The thing is though, this was only originally a four issue mini-series and what works well in four bite sized chunks of comic book reading doesn't work as well when you collect it into a trade. The joke doesn't stop being funny but it does start to feel really tired about three quarters of the way in. It's worth sticking with but, at that point, needed a little more story to balance out the laughs.

'Deadpool Kills Deadpool' is a fun read where your best bet is to leave it a little while between re-reads. A little too lightweight to stand up to constant repeated reads.

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