War of The Realms: Deadpool #14 Review

Writer: Skottie Young / Artist: Nic Klein / MARVEL Back in Australia… There’s always SOMETHING going down in Australia. We return to the second entry in the War of The Realms with our doppelganger heroes. They are just about ready to throw it down on those trolls and cease the “people buffet”. I’ll admit I liked this issue slightly more than the last. I don’t know if it was because Deadpool was more annoying, or if it felt like it was actually moving at a decent pace. Granted there were still moments that I felt like it could be improved upon (the pace was decent but somewhat jumpy). I admired the audacity of the creative team: their jokes were punchier and the environment/situational trauma was more developed. The Young-Klein collaboration managed to give our Merc more dimension in his actions. In this issue, we saw a bit of humility mixed in with the usual non-stop cocky banter. At the same time, you ever read a comic and got so emotionally confused on the path that it’s taking that you end up liking it?

That’s Exactly What Happened Deadpool #14 took such a left turn, I actually went back to re-read it just to double check and make sure my eyes weren’t messing with me. It was skidding between the thin line of laziness and rightful justification. “Deadpool problems require Deadpool solutions”. When I search through comics I usually try to find a singular metaphor that locks everything together. The only thing that felt secured was the ideation of “doppelgangers” conti…