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Deadpool Pulp review
Jan. 25th, 2011 12:33 amOkay, so I have this squeeful review of Deadpool Pulp that is now a month overdue. Down to business.
I got into the series late, on the recommendation on this post less than a week before the last issue was due to come out. On the one hand, this meant I did get to read the first three issues all at once with just enough time left to enjoy the cliffhanger before the fourth, on the other it meant I spent the rest of the week mentally gnawing on my nails to keep from squeeing about it too loudly against terrible paranoia that the last issue wasn't going to live up to expectations and all the excitement would be for naught (it's a miniseries, it's a noir style story – anyone could die).
Naturally, the last issue was delayed by a week -_-
The last issue finally came out right before Christmas, but it was entirely worth the wait. Not as many Cable scenes as I might have hoped, but otherwise so very, very satisfying. Definitely going to be picking this one up in trade at the first opportunity.
I'm not entirely sure whether I want to talk about it as a Deadpool story or as a Cable&Deadpool story. The former would be more accurate; Cable's role isn't quite large enough to ever let them interact much on page, more's the pity. But it does leave us with just enough to hint at a relationship going on in the background and it basically seems to be taking it as given that the audience will assume the two of them are friends with an interesting history, and that is more than enough to please my inner Cable/Deadpool fangirl.
Mostly though, it's just generally a great Deadpool story in its own right. Heroism is questioned, sanity tested and shit blows up. At heart it's a Cold War story, complete with suitcase nukes and rampant government corruption, but it's got the dark, gritty realism of the noir style down, with only a smattering of sci-fi elements peaking in around the corners, and if it's packed with genre-appropriate cliches and the action sometimes goes over the top, it's none the worse for it.
[Spoilers to be discussed from here on in]
( Stuff That Bugged Me )
( Stuff That Was Awesome (probably not even the complete list) )
( Stuff I Would Have Liked To See More Of/Fanfic Ideas/Discussion Questions )
I got into the series late, on the recommendation on this post less than a week before the last issue was due to come out. On the one hand, this meant I did get to read the first three issues all at once with just enough time left to enjoy the cliffhanger before the fourth, on the other it meant I spent the rest of the week mentally gnawing on my nails to keep from squeeing about it too loudly against terrible paranoia that the last issue wasn't going to live up to expectations and all the excitement would be for naught (it's a miniseries, it's a noir style story – anyone could die).
Naturally, the last issue was delayed by a week -_-
The last issue finally came out right before Christmas, but it was entirely worth the wait. Not as many Cable scenes as I might have hoped, but otherwise so very, very satisfying. Definitely going to be picking this one up in trade at the first opportunity.
I'm not entirely sure whether I want to talk about it as a Deadpool story or as a Cable&Deadpool story. The former would be more accurate; Cable's role isn't quite large enough to ever let them interact much on page, more's the pity. But it does leave us with just enough to hint at a relationship going on in the background and it basically seems to be taking it as given that the audience will assume the two of them are friends with an interesting history, and that is more than enough to please my inner Cable/Deadpool fangirl.
Mostly though, it's just generally a great Deadpool story in its own right. Heroism is questioned, sanity tested and shit blows up. At heart it's a Cold War story, complete with suitcase nukes and rampant government corruption, but it's got the dark, gritty realism of the noir style down, with only a smattering of sci-fi elements peaking in around the corners, and if it's packed with genre-appropriate cliches and the action sometimes goes over the top, it's none the worse for it.
[Spoilers to be discussed from here on in]
( Stuff That Bugged Me )
( Stuff That Was Awesome (probably not even the complete list) )
( Stuff I Would Have Liked To See More Of/Fanfic Ideas/Discussion Questions )