Courtesy of Gentle Giant Studios, this Lady Deadpool mini-bust depicts half of her armed with a pair of detachable katanas, a pistol and Headpool, the bodiless counterpart of Deadpool from a zombie-infested universe, biting her left arm. As seen in the image above, it is rather curious that her belt buckle, surrounded by an amusingly large abundance of pockets, is coloured grey instead of the trademark red and black. Still, this is quite a splendid-looking addition to any Deadpool collection that still lacks a Deadpool of the somewhat curvaceous variety.
For those who aren't familiar with her existence, Lady Deadpool, whom I've only seen in action in the first few issues of the Deadpool Corps mini-series, is the female counterpart of Wade Wilson, supposedly as insane as the Merc with the Mouth himself. As to whether Wanda Wilson, aka Lady Deadpool, resembles Deadpool in any way beneath the red and black mask, one can only assume, though the fact that she keeps a blonde ponytail visible outside her mask should suggest that her appearance is not as grievously distorted by her healing factor.
Courtesy of Gentle Giant Studios, this Lady Deadpool mini-bust depicts half of her armed with a pair of detachable katanas, a pistol and Headpool, the bodiless counterpart of Deadpool from a zombie-infested universe, biting her left arm. As seen in the image above, it is rather curious that her belt buckle, surrounded by an amusingly large abundance of pockets, is coloured grey instead of the trademark red and black. Still, this is quite a splendid-looking addition to any Deadpool collection that still lacks a Deadpool of the somewhat curvaceous variety.
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Here's something to look forward to next year on Entertainment Earth, a Deadpool mini bust sculpted in the likeness of the trigger-happy havoc-crying-for-no-reason mercenary. Place it on your bedside, so that every time you wake up, the first thing you see will be Deadpool pointing an automatic weapon in your face, and you can almost imagine him saying something absurd and witty in accompaniment to this almost-threat. Well, just a suggestion.
You can pre-order your very own Deadpool mini bust coming March next year by clicking on the link below: Here's an odd twist to a story about dead presidents of the United States: zombie presidents. That's right, your favorite Merc with the Mouth is back in business, with the not-reboot of the Marvel Universe, and this time he's hired to put the bodies of past presidents back to rest.
While I have nothing against the reboot, which everybody seems to be doing, you can expect to find the brand of quippage (which I'm not sure is a real word) Deadpool was known for, thanks to a new writer on board. Not sure what happened in the last issue of Way's Deadpool run, though it seems Deadpool somehow magically regained his healing factor from the reboot. So the logic here is: he never through that horrendous stage of depression, which led to the reinforcement of his suicidal tendencies and from there, his striving to remove all traces of his healing factor so that he could finally commit suicide and embrace Death like any other mortal should. Apparently, the powers that be aren't quite so kind as to let Mr. Deadpool go that easily. In this issue, Deadpool was hired by SHIELD, or rather, one of the agency's lesser known beings, to resolve a particularly delicate issue which required particularly delicate means to be resolved, and Deadpool here is all about delicateness, n'est-ce pas? Considering that other superheroes have an image to maintain, one which does not involve decapitating dead presidents in the face of the public, it is up to the mercenary to do what's right and of course pays the most, even if it means taking down Franklin D. Roosevelt in a wheelchair. Well, a twisted version of President Roosevelt in a wheelchair anyway. Well, there's nothing more profound than graphic violence (emphasis on graphic) infused with Deadpool humor to be found in this issue. I would say that it's a nice start. So this is from an episode of Ultimate Spider-man titled 'Freaky', probably in reference to the movie 'Freaky Friday', in which Spider-man and Wolverine got the good ol' fashioned switcheroo treatment, courtesy of Mesmero, a mutant with mind manipulating abilities and definitely an individual seen far more treacherous than a fortune cookie. Is this a hint, that the jolly mercenary with the unstoppable mouth should be joining the scene pretty soon? Sure, there were a few times before Deadpool's appearance had been teased: Still, one mustn't give up hope. The thought of Deadpool and Spider-man fighting over who gets to break the fourth wall is nothing short of exciting... and probably a bit confusing. What's his face doing on a magazine anyway? Pre-order your very own Deadpool mini bust by clicking here!
It's that time of the year where everyone comes around for family reunions or office parties, exchanging gifts, generally enjoying oneself with good company and good food, and so on. I'm not a Christmas person, though I greatly enjoy various affairs associated to it, such as giving myself an excuse to buy comic books and pretending to be surprised about their 'sudden' appearances beside my bed, and watching reruns of the Christmas episode in Community, Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas.
In related news, Deadpool decided to bring about his own brand of Christmas Cheer in this issue of Deadpool MAX, by faking the death of associate Bob: Agent of Hydra, wanted for committing acts of terrorism allegedly in the name of Hydra, in an attempt to show how his death would affect everyone Bob had ever known. It rather put me in mind of an episode in Fairly Oddparents where Timmy wished he'd never been born, and found that everyone's better off under such a circumstance, a similar epiphany that struck Bob as well. From infiltrating a secret government intelligence facility dressed up as a pair of Santa Clauses, the idea of which, as Deadpool later figured, flies in the face of the the fact that there can only be one Santa Claus; to visiting Inez, Deadpool's lunatic wife, who also adopted the role of a scantily clad Santa Claus, the dynamic duo sure stepped up their own insanity into every nook and cranny they could worm their way into. Unfortunately, do keep the untainted minds of children away as, if you're new to Deadpool Max, bear in mind no punches were pulled back on the sexual material department. Note that every pervert in this issue is glued to Cable's up and running porn site, showing various depraved acts of sexuality involving him and an Asian slut named Colleen, who I gather played an integral role in Bob's origins. From this rather hackneyed exercise, offset by the fun-loving, mentally-addled mess of a government agent, Bob learns something important about his life, and I was greatly entertained. Win-win. It's the ultimate showdown between good and evil in this issue; well, so to speak. Deadpool, our morally ambiguous Merc with the Mouth, finally comes face to face with a nightmarish duplicate of himself, named Evil Deadpool, born from a chain of events involving a British psychotherapist love drunk bordering on the psychotic and her refrigerated stash of various appendages discarded from past mercenary escapades, which was also referenced to in the issue cover by Evil Deadpool himself.
Deadpool threw it down with an adversary unlike any he had ever faced: himself, in the flesh, both of whom throughout this issue efforted to outdo each other like a mentally distorted pair of sitcom characters, only more graphically than conventional television could afford innocent young minds, and under the circumstance in which both man and monster mirror each other with their capacity for everyone's daily dose of insanity and caprice, rendering their own attempts to kill each other off as futile as Deadpool's own attempts at suicide. Chaotic as always, with seemingly devoid of any sense of direction, doesn't it bother anyone that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing? They've seemed to have taken out Deadpool's tendency for pop culture referencing, and in so doing, proceeded to choking him with the mercenary's inherent self-loathing so far. The odd thing, in the process of failing to commit suicide, Deadpool somehow lose himself bit by bit, probably the least entertaining manner of suicide that should not even appeal to himself, as paradoxical as the man is. The issue culminates in the guest-appearance of one of the biggest stars in the Marvel Universe, and it's certainly not Bea Arthur, of whom so far Deadpool had not even make any mention. It's so depressing that the writers want him be done with eventually... I miss Weasel. Previous Issue: Deadpool #45 After a brief run-in with the British secret service and holding the Queen hostage while at it, the Merc with the Mouth makes a house call to the love starved Dr. Whitby's abode. Instead of finding the psychiatrist herself, Deadpool had the fortune (or misfortune) of witnessing Dr. Whitby's attempt at emulating the mercenary's lifestyle and of course her disturbing collection of body parts disembodied over the years inside a fridge. When things couldn't seem any worse than they already had been, we have Dr. Whitby with the intent of killing the warden of the prison where she worked, only to be stopped by Deadpool himself, who knocked the warden out in time before anyone could shoot him in his own apartment, which blew up anyway. As Deadpool got rid of the psychiatrist's meat galore, in stumbled the obsessed woman, burned and maddened like the man of her obsession, before shooting herself through the mouth, which concludes Deadpool's time in England and being haunted by cosplaying psychiatrists who should know better. As it happens, in Deadpool MAX, there was also a psychiatrist, as obsessed with her mercenary boy toy as Dr. Whitby though with enough reason for Deadpool to be sleeping with, who turned out to be a patient in an asylum and capable of killing people in the name of love. But that's an entirely unrelated story. Deadpool's self-hatred was accounted for in this issue from his apparent distaste of even coming into contact with his own body parts to that of Dr. Whitby, who was trying so studiously to be just like him. To further fuel his own self-hatred, a new Deadpool will be running amok in the next issue, twice the original's viciousness, without the sarcasm and mercenary's charisma. If the last page of the issue isn't convincing enough, where Evil Deadpool was seen born from the discarded body parts of the original Deadpool in a dumpster complete with the mercenary's inner voices, this should be. From what I gather, while Deadpool loves to create, strangely enough, Evil Deadpool loves to destroy, so probably we'll be seeing a lot of senseless gore and violence in the next issue.
This is where it all started, the moment Deadpool embarked on a seemingly impossible quest to kill himself. From the cover it wouldn't be painstaking to figure out through what means he'd go to that end. Yes, it's the Incredible Hulk down to Bruce Banner's self restraint. It's the unstoppable force against an unkillable target, as Deadpool went to great pains in order that the Hulk might be motivated enough to grind him to a subatomic pulp with his bare hands. A lot of incendiary fun, mind numbingly amplified Tom-And-Jerry action and then there's this:
Now, it's not in the order of any proper gentleman to mistreat a proper lady, though when both protagonists of a story fall short by vast degrees from any conception of the word, anything could happen really. Recently (well, not so much; considering this issue was published probably months ago) Deadpool escaped from a mental institution set in England, though freedom flicks back up into the air the way a not so professional angler does with a still baited hook from the water when he was forced to confront Dr Ella Whitby, who in fact aided in springing Deadpool out from said asylum in the first place. What was once a clinical fascination of the warped mercenary now evolved into an equally warped sense of love for him. Now Deadpool's main priority is to get out of England before the doctor could do anything worse to him, and get on with things put off during his incarceration such as dying.
Well, it's Deadpool, toned down so to speak with the usual elements of the character that is excessive bloodshed, self mutilation, etc. In fact, such elements seemed to have dried down since the day he was institutionalized, and he's still trying to get himself killed to the extent that there is no way his exceptional healing factor could bring him back to one piece. Other than roughhousing the British secret service and keeping the Queen hostage, the issue's pretty dry. It only seems like yesterday when I first started catching up on Cable and Deadpool's presumably first adventure together, though that's probably the most cliched way to start any blog post here. Hired by the minister of the One World Church, Anton Kruch in order to steal a bioweapon virus called the Facade virus, capable of altering the appearances of those exposed to it, our beloved mercenary here crossed pathways with ex-mercenary Cable, the latter attempting to stop Deadpool from doing so. The virus however was already stolen in the first place by a trio of amateur anarchists, a regrettable act later when they started melting. Fortunately enough, Cable was able to save one of them by telekinetically extracting the virus from her body, though said fortune ended when Deadpool succeeded in securing the virus himself from an exhausted Cable.
Back at the One World Church, Deadpool was employed as the first subject for the virus to be tested on, in consequence attaining the curious blue shade of skin in exchange of the man's perpetually scarred exterior as the rest of the Church, which existed to unify mankind by transforming its members into blue-skinned beings. Cable, upon infiltrating the premise, was brought in as an unwitting candidate to be exposed to the virus via electromagnetic transmissions and attempted to dismantle everything telekinetically again, only to have his mutant abilities stoppered, which led Cable into a rampage as without his telekinetic powers, Cable's techno-organic mesh began attacking him inside unrestrained. Both Deadpool and Cable ended up in a standoff when the former started melting from the legs up courtesy of the Facade virus. When it looked as though both heroes had finally breathed their last, the last vestiges of Cable's mutant powers managed to somehow borrow the mercenary's healing factor by drawing in the gooey mess that had been Deadpool and vomiting him out literally naked and not blue. After being filled in on the location of Anton Kruch by reporter Irene Merryweather, Cable transported himself to Singapore, where a new revamped batch of said virus was being produced, only to be ambushed by the Lightmaster, who, as it was later revealed, was also a member of the One World Church. Everything backfired on the zealous bunch when Cable managed to gain telepathic control over the Facade virus and turn everyone on the planet, of all things, pink. Which I fail to see the point of , if there was any, and Cable's raising a sunken space station from the depths of the sea doesn't seem to be in line with anything that had transpired before, as is the case of everything that happened later. A pivotal point to be regarded, where Cable was inspired in the first place to bring peace to the world and save everyone else from their own madness and all that. Pretty much a mutant Jesus fighting for farcical if righteous ideals, especially when you're friends with a gun-toting maniac. |