My Thoughts and Review for Deadpool #15

Deadpool #15

Writer: Gerry Duggan/ Brian Posehn

Artist: Declan Shalvey

Colourist: Jordie Bellaire

Since reading the Zombie President’s arc at the beginning of Deadpool’s Marvel NOW treatment I have continued to hear good things about the series and with issue #15 I decided to hop back on the title and I am very glad I did.

Deadpool has always been a favourite character of mine since I started reading his Secret Invasion title and his on-going that continued out of that. He is a character that provides humour that at times inappropriate or an ice breaker I find to be refreshing in a comic and Posehn and Duggan do a great job of interpreting this side of the character. This issue is filled with laughs, although the serious undertone and situation Deadpool finds himself in still manages to come through.

The title “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”, considering the characters in this arc, is genius and Deadpool’s interactions with his X-Force team mate Wolverine, and Captain America bring some of the funniest moments while still managing to contain plot development throughout.

Another part of Deadpool’s character that really stood out to me, and which I may have noticed sooner if I continued to pick up the title, is his new found ‘Female Intuition’ seeing as he now has the mind of his S.H.I.E.L.D. minder to join his already fun filled over active thoughts.

So some of my favourite moments to follow, one being when Deadpool  goes all Downton Abbey on us for his meeting with Wolverine. Infiltrating the hotel Wolverine is staying in, in a butler costume, to request his help. This leads to one of my favourite moments in the comic with Deadpool’s short but sweet interaction with Storm, “Bye Storm”, and his woman’s intuition’s opinion. That Storm should know better don’t you know? The interaction between Cap and Deadpool during a fight with some A.I.M goons is a joy to read, the thought of Cap needing a “Shrink” which turns out to be his barber is brilliant.

Deadpool’s living conditions are not much to be desired, bunking down in Crime Scenes overnight, which really gives us a good idea of Deadpool’s mental state and also provides yet more great interaction between Deadpool’s own thoughts and those of his knew tenant, Preston, in that crazy brain o’his.

Well this is a Deadpool comic so there has to be some gun toting at some point queue the arrival of Wolverine and then the imminent arrival of Deadpool’s abductors and some great action sequences as Wolverine and Deadpool commence to take down the heavily armed abductors. This issue finishes on a great little cliff hanger, despite all his fight and Wolverine’s help Deadpool still gets caught and we see him all test tubed up. This is a well-paced issue, with plenty of laughs and great action, an encouraging start to this new arc from the creative team.

Let’s talk art shall we? Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire, well known for their cover work together most recently on Winter Soldier and Venom, now given the opportunity to work together on interiors. If you know me you would know I am an avid fan of Shalvey’s and Bellaire’s work. Declan brings his A game to this book with his energetic line and style for great action sequences. It also helps when you can draw a great Cap and Wolverine along with your lead character illustrating fantastic interaction sequences between them. Bellaire’s colours are superb. I’m no master when it comes to art and colouring but having previously been a painter like to think I may see a technique or two. There is something to the layers of colour used by Bellaire and the painterly style that I see in her work that really draws me to it. The great use of shades of colour from dark to light to create the depth and shape to the scenes, objects and characters.

At first I was buying this comic to support some of my favourite creators in Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire. But having enjoyed issues 1-6 from Duggan and Posehn originally also helped me to return to the title. The writers bring a great humour to Deadpool, and I now really regret having stopped picking the title up after #6 till now and certainly have some catching up to do. They bring the humour and action you expect and teamed with Shalvey and Bellaire this has potential, and if this first issue is anything to go by, to be a great Deadpool tale.