The thing that I enjoy reading the most about Deadpool is how his zany and somewhat crazy ideas actually turn out to be a perfect strategy. It's just that none of the other characters (or even myself as a reader) can see the big picture as the story progress. His outragous plots seem to be crazy, but he's just a strategic genius that's often overlooked.
Over the last comics, Deadpool has wanted to sign up to become an X-Man. He even made his own costume and a pancake breakfast for his assigned X-Men mentor/watcher (Domino). He is there to fix the X-Men's publicity nightmare caused by a Norman Osborn scheme to use the father of an X-Man (Mercury) who's on Utopia. Mercury's father has been insisting that Cyclops and the X-Men are keeping his daughter against her will and that they've kidnapped her. He's fighting for his right to see and protect his daughter, at least that's how the Osborn wants the story to go.
Of course, Deadpool has an answer to fix the X-Men publicity problem. One that nobody else understands until it's too late. His plan required that none of the X-Men knew what he was doing, otherwise, it probably wouldn't have worked. In the end, his plan is executed flawless and the X-Men regained some of their trust.
The plan begins with Deadpool seemingly wanting to kill Mercury's father who's causing the problem. However, that's what the X-Men believe and Wolverine and Domino take off to stop Deadpool. At the same time, Osborn puts his two most incompetent HAMMER agents on duty guarding the man in an unprotected and public place such as a train station. Osborn wants Deadpool to kill the father out in the open. After being scared to death by the sniper's bullets and saved by Wolverine, the father recants his story to the news anchor. Thinking that it's Deadpool firing, Wolverine looks up to see Deadpool taking aim, but he doesn't shoot at them. Instead, he takes out the HAMMER sniper.
It's at this point, that Wolverine understands what Deadpool is doing and brings along the camera man to film Cyclops harassing Deadpool telling him that he's never been and never will be a X-Man. Cyclops doesn't know exactly what had happened outside, so he believes Deadpool was really trying to kill the man.
In the end, Deadpool used pancakes, a rooster, and a crazy scheme to help the X-Men regain their status among the public. And his plan worked flawless.
It's this reason why I'm buy this comic. I'm hoping that Daniel Way keeps up his brilliant writing as Deadpool continues a year of trying to be a hero. Next month, Deadpool will be seeking Spider-Man out to become Spidey's sidekick.
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