Deadpool’s main series is forgettable and mediocre right now, as are most of his one-shots, but this book? This book is GREAT.
And it starts with the covers themselves, which pay tribute to classic films while still telling the story of the issue inside.
A.I.M. hires the Merc with a Mouth to go to the Savage Land to find and retrieve the head of alternate-reality Zombie Deadpool. Unlike so many of the other DP books out at this time, this book is actually funny (really funny) and makes terrific use of Deadpool’s “4th-wall consciousness” and inner schizophrenia.
The dead head that will be known as Headpool is now leading a tribe in the Savage Land in a clear tribute to Apocalypse now.
Deadpool has to fight Headpool’s tribe, dinosaurs, zombie dinosaurs, and Hydra troops (who also want the head)…
…All while protecting a ridiculously hot, blonde field scientist named Dr. Betty.
Betty manages to secure Headpool and escape, believing Wade Wilson is dead. But of course he’s not. They learn that A.I.M.’s plan is to use it to engineer a zombie virus to release on Earth from a remote space station.
That’s too much even for Deadpool, so he and Dr. Betty foil the plot and decide to figure out how to return Headpool to his own dimension.
I’m assuming that means Deadpool is going to try to use the living dimensional nexus that is known as Man-Thing. I honestly can’t wait. I haven’t had this much fun reading Deadpool since the early issues of Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld’s series.
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