The X-Blog

Deadpool #18

I have just recently subscribed to the insanity that is Deadpool, mostly because of his brief stint with the X-Men in his “Want You to Want Me” arch in the Nation X storyline. To begin with, I just want to say that I love Deadpool and his craziness, and I also love how no matter how bad he fucks things up he always manages to get things back on track.

Well the Merc with a Mouth got mixed up with the X-Men a little while back when he decided that he wanted to use his powers for good instead of just being a mercenary. This is only coupled with Deadpool catching the ending news report of Scott Summers announcing that Utopia is the new nation for all mutants. This is where Wade get’s the idea of joining the X-Men and being part of the team (just like old times with Cable… but not). He is quickly differed from the team when he arrives to give his services and this quickly turns into a bunch of dead ends that lead to Deadpool eventually trying to kill Cessily Kincaid’s (AKA Mercury) father, who under the command of Osbourn has stated that the X-Men are holding his daughter as a hostage and aren’t allowing contact to the outside world–when this is in all honesty a bold face lie.

Deadpool goes on a rather brilliantly planned, but incoherent, romp that leads teammates Domino and Wolverine all over the place, trying to stop the Merc Without a Mouth from giving the X-Men an even worse rep then they already have stateside. There is even a moment among this arch that Deadpool has Mercury’s father on live TV declaring that he was going to kill him in the name of the X-Men.

Of course, no Deadpool comic would be complete without Wade’s split personalities bickering at each other and the use of rather alien/odd plot devices–like the chicken he leaves in an air vent that eventually causes Wolverine and Domino to halt in their tracks due to Domino’s fear of chickens (what the hell right?). However by the end of the chaos that is this situation, Scott effectively turns the problem into a blessing and uses Wade as a way of clearing up the X-Men’s name and sticking it to Osbourn all in one attack. Of course this is in the bane of Wade, who gets the shit kicked out of his accelerated healing ass. A rather gross/fantastic fight scene includes Deadpool headbutting Colossus as hard as he possibly can, blinding the metal man with the blood that is pouring from his nose.

Wade eventually agrees to leave Utopia and the X-Men, mostly for the good of Utopia. However, I hope we get more Deadpool/X-Men madness, because it is quite entertaining amidst all the seriousness of Nation X and Necrosha.

Rating: 4.5/5 crazy, chaotic, and hilarious