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“...Posehn and Duggan clumsily waddle their way through a daft number of
comic-clichés...”
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-BOX O'CREDITS-
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Reviewer:
"Sweet" Can Sweet |
Writers:
Brian Posehn & Gerry Duggan |
Artists:
Tony Moore & Val Staples |
Publisher:
Marvel Comics |
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Shipped On:
110712 |
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Reviewed On:
111012 |
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MSRP:
$3.99 each
(40% OFF during it's 1st Week of release only at Alternate Reality!)
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WOW! Would you look at that beautiful Geoff Darrow cover?! There’s not a whole
lot in this world that I absolutely love, but Geoff Darrow art ranks pretty high
up there on the list. With that said, this issue was getting bought, whether the
story contained within its pages was good or garbage, I was paying for it and
taking it home. I flipped through it in the shop, and as is usually the case
with anything Tony Moore touches, the pages were gloriously illustrated; I
figured I’d read it sooner or later.
Sooner came before later got here, so I cracked the book open and started
reading. I knew that the gimmicky writing team of professional comedian Brian
Posehn and Gerry Duggan, some guy that wrote “Attack of the Show”, was supposed
to be a draw for fans, but it seemed more like a hindrance to my own
sensibilities.
Deadpool is enlisted by S.H.I.E.L.D. to track down and re-kill a few dozen
resurrected former Presidents of the United States, a sound enough concept if
ever there was one. Add Tony Moore and Val Staples to the mix on visuals and
this book should be a no-brainer for fans’ pull lists, but I’m afraid they’re
going to have to count me out. While I like many of the ingredients involved in
this particular Marvel NOW recipe, I’m not sure I’m going to be able to swallow
what’s being served.
Reading more like a REALLY long comic strip in a MAD Magazine, Posehn and Duggan
clumsily waddle their way through a daft number of comic-clichés in order to
ultimately arrive at a scenario so out-there that I wouldn’t even attempt to
challenge it. A zombie-president frat party, yes please! The combination of a
fresh idea and tired plot devices/contrivances doesn’t really cancel each other
out, especially when the contrivances out-weigh the niftiness of the general
idea, and editorial should have caught that.
Deadpool has never really been a favorite of mine, but I’ve warmed up to him the
last couple years because of the way he’s been handled by Rick Remender over in
“Uncanny X-Force”. I also understand that THIS isn’t Posehn and Duggan doing
their impression of Remender, and that Deadpool’s solo title has always been a
bit more off the wall and nutty that anything else he’s been featured in. I get
it, I really do. I just didn’t like it.
But it sure does have a pretty cover!
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"Sweet" Dan Sweet is a Chicago-based aspiring writer and long time
customer at Alternate Reality. |
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