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Deadpool Killustrated #1

Review: Deadpool Killustrated #1

The special mini-series of Deadpool Killustrated is basically Deadpool “butchering stories from literature’s finest authors”. Sounds like fun, our favorite fourth-wall-breaking merc-with-a-mouth tearing up the classics. It’s a concept you can’t really go wrong with… but amazingly, they found a way.

I sit down to enjoy the first issue and from the cover I’m expecting some fun to be had with whale guts, but all I get instead is page after page of the writer explaining to us how it’s possible for Deadpool to be running around mucking with the classics.

Really?

REALLY?

It’s DEADPOOL!

Do we really need to a reason for him to do anything?

And if you did want at least a slim veil of a connecting plot to Deadpool vs the Marvel Universe then you could have knocked it out in like two pages, three tops, not spend at least half of the book trying to make this all legit when you could have had more fun with whale guts!

It looks like they are trying to somehow make this series cerebral, that Deadpool’s fourth-wall breakage has driven him a little crazy or something because he realizes he’s at the whims of writers and all that… but maybe if they had parcelled that out over the mini-series instead of the dreaded ‘info dump’ it would have been more compelling.

There were a few nice touches, two actually, and that’s it: the thing with Pinocchio (perfect match) and the introduction of a possible nemesis there at the end. Again, if they hadn’t already told us everything, the Pinocchio incident would have had more punch in a ‘wait, what does this mean?’ moment.

Hopefully the next issue will be better because it won’t have to explain everything to us, but at the moment, well, I can understand why Deadpool wants to kill the writers.