Deadpool #11 Review

Writer: Skottie Young / Artist: Scott Hepburn & Ian Herring / MARVEL Getting On My Nerves Alright, so from the jump, the main take away from this comic: Villains with the darkest back stories, be making the most drastic decisions. Important takeaway, I promise. In the last issue of this Deadpool series, we observe Wade chillin’, waiting for his prey. He tries to use the good ol’ bait method to lure them in; but alas it does not work and now we got a broken Merc with a Mouth being dragged across the city by the nemesis he was trying to capture. After the dreaded drag, readers are lured into the villain’s absolutely terrible back story. (Not terrible as in horribly executed. Terrible meaning, absolutely traumatic. 10/10 needs some therapy). I appreciated the time the Young-Hepburn team took to make this one of the saddest origin stories I’ve seen in a while. Especially the twist, that was a “what the hell is going on” kind of twist. The narrative kept me engaged and emotionally confused. It was absurd enough to generate comedy, but not the usual “ha ha” slap neck comedy DP usually brings it was more of a “why is this happening.” By the end of the comic, I kept rooting for the poor unfortunate soul.

Poor Unfortunate Souls What the Young-Hepburn team did right was use a different comedic approach that was more “internal searching” than gut buster. This is an important contrast considering that Deadpool comics have a sense of absurdity that tends to feel random or witty (unde…