“Read a bunch of Deadpool this weekend and figured I’d mostly talk about the volume I enjoyed the most (although 8 was also pretty durn good too).
The problem with Deadpool is that I think writers still hesitate because they think readers won’t follow a character who is a complete bastard. BUT WE WILL. I SWEAR. Especially if that complete bastard is entertaining as all hell.
What makes Deadpool work is the insanity, and I mean that both on the fun level but also in the writing.
For one thing, there are always at least two voices in Deadpool’s head. So we see those manifested on the page as two different styles of thought boxes. Which works great because, well, you can read about the character’s ideas and motivations without him needing a stupid sidekick or something.
Second, he’s just sort of out of it. The best part of this whole volume is his insistence on calling all vampires “draculas.” They keep trying to remind him that they aren’t all named that, messages that fly right over his head, and the fun continues right on.
The other thing I don’t enjoy, and where these start to go here and there before too long, is the whole Is Deadpool a Good Guy or a Bad Guy Today storyline.
This happens all the time in comics. You get a cool character, like Venom, and then they have to decide whether he’s a good guy or a bad guy every couple months.
Again, we can enjoy bad guys. It’s okay. The Joker was the best part of Dark Knight, right? So let’s just take it easy on the conversions and get back to kicking dracula ass.”