Okay, now I have to admt, in Mike Benson and Adam Glass's hands Daredevil and Deadpool make for a good team up. Definitely an odd couple vibe going on. Add into the mix a relentless pursuit by the Puniseher and it is pretty cool. The only downside turns out to be the scenes that do not involve these characters. I couldn't care less about Tombstone and the rich brat.  Except for the fact that it is the sole reason the main characters are getting together. 
 All in all I liked the book. I am glad I kept up with buying the series.

In this issue we find out that the Punisher sees a video of Deadpool blowing up a building. Okay, he actually saw it in the last issue. This issue he kicks Deadpools ass for it.  It is a real ass kicking also. I was surprisedbecause we usually see the popular guy beating the hell out of the veteran just so the writers can show off how tough he is.  
  I have to admit that I found it quite satisfying watching the Punisher dismember Deadpool.  While the humor is here in this book, it was used to serve the story, and not be the story, which was the downfall in the regular title. Once agin I see no reason this couldn't have been in regular continuity. Nor do I see why it is a $4.00 book. It is a step above issue one. I will admit that.

 There is nothing special about this mini series. It could easily have been fit into regular continuity. So that makes ths just another way to rob us of our hard earned money. While the art and the writing is decent enough, I do not thinkit warrants a four dollar price tag.  That being said, I just dont know if I can honestly recommend it. I know I have a daughter who is a huge deadpool fan, so I am duty bound to complete the series, so I hope the future issues will be better.

 Once again, both the art and the writing has become incredibly cartoonish. Not nearly the book that It could be. Instead t looks as if someone decided the Merc with a Mouth is a character best suited for the kiddies. There are some gags that work here, so it isn't a complete loss. It is a major dissappointment however. 
 

 Okay, so Deadpool is incredibly rich, and he buys a boat so he can become a pirate. With that bit of silliness, the writing goes out the window. This is the roblem when a character becomes very popular. Instead of getting stories about the character. You get books about what the creators think you want. 
 It's a hard row to hoe for sure, but that is what seperates the good franchises from the bad. Thankfully in comicsthere is usually a next month to redeem yourself, but since this is at least a two issue story, I am not holding out mch hope.

Last issue Deadpool had his ass handed to him, and this issue begins with Bullseye waiting negotiating with a butcher to cut Deadpool up into bits. Before his able to Deadpool gets up and walks out. That is when the battle continues. There is a bit of a problem when you have an indestructable character, how do you create any tension? How can you possibly make the audience think that he can ever be in danger. 
   I guess this is also why it seems that In every other book, Deadpool seems to be in danger of losing his head. Thankfully, this is not a book that relies on the action. Instead it is relying on the humor. Not quite a good idea, since for the most part, the humor falls flat in this issue. Not surprising when you see how thin the "Merc With A Mouth" is being stretched. 
   Marvel comics should have learned the lessons of the 90's, and kept it simple.

The issue starts with an art imitating life situation. A popular leader ( Norman Osbourne ) suggests that he wants healthy debate, but then refuses to do an interview if he isn't asked his pre approved soft ball questions that will help him push his agenda.   Heck, he should have gone to ABC. They would have given him his own infomercial on Sunday night. 
   Unlike in real life however, opposition rears its head during the broadcast in the form of Deadpool. Norman of course does not like this so he sends the new Hawkeye ( Bullseye ) to take care of Deadpooll once and for all. In the meantime we see that Deadpool has taken a job that is outside the norm for him. This is the meat and potatoes of the story. It is also mostly dialogue. Sweet humorous dialogue. Right up to the thievery after the assassination.  
  Yet dialogue and the killing of a Pizza delivery guy does not make a comic book alone, so we do have a big fight between Deadpool and Bullseye. It continues the established spirit of the book, while at the same time being exciting. Credit for this has to go to Daniel Way for remembering, that while Deadool is a comedic charachter, he is also a professional. It makes for a more believable and deeper book. 

   
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This issue opens and we see the Thunderbolts have Deadpool trussed up. Norman Osbourne is irritated that 1. Deadpool is still alive, and 2. he no longer has the teleporter on him. 
 Norman goes off on The Headsman to the point where the Headsman picks up his axe to cut off Deadpools head. Before he has a chance though, another Deadpool shows up and stops him. 
  Norman orders the Thunderbolts  to kill them both. This prompts the Black Widow to immediately attack the Deadpool who had just escaped from his restraints. ( he is known as Deadpool 1) The two of them fight, and he quickly dispatches her, and turns his attention to the Headsman. 
  After a quick beatdown given to the Headsman, the story cuts to Ant Man who is in a panic now after watching his colleagues fall.  Deadpool 2 tries to shoot him, but Ant Man crawls into his costume.  Annoyed Deadpool 2 begins to shoot himself trying to take Ant Man out. Unfortunately he only takes himself out. 
  In the middle of the fight Norman Osbourne gets into a jet, and begins to take off. Deadpool 2, already healed up teleports into the plane, while Black Widow hooks a line up to it, and begins to be pulled behind the Jet. 
  Inside the Jet Deadpool 2 holds a gun to Norman Osbournes head and says that Norman owes him. This angers Norman to no end, and he attacks Deadpool and beats him to a pulp. Forgetting that he should have been flying the plane. 
  As the door to the plane opens, Black Widow jumps in yelling for Osbourne to get down as she shoots Deadpool in the chest. Osbourne orders her to cut off his head, but before she does that The Headsmans Axe falls across Deadpools neck. 
 
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   I love the cover. The almost realistic painting, the way Deadpools mouth looks. It is quite a cool shot. On the inside the art is almost too simplistic. Cartoonish if you will. I guess it fits, at least to a point. The story and dialogue really skirt the border between Cartoonish and regular comic book drama. 
 
 It is mostly a fight, wih The Taskmaster and Deadpool ( both dressed as Deadpool ) vs. members of The Thunderbolts.  Taskmaster easily shows why he can take on the Avengers, and the dialogue at the end between Taskmaster and Deadpool certainly is a contender for best friendship ending since Casablanca.

  I was not a big fan of the layout. It seemed the panels were purposely made biger, and we are given less substance. However, what is there is fun and funny in a way that earlyissues of Deadpools regular title promised to be at the beginning of its run.     Good times are to be had in thi book. Check it out. Or get the TPB. It's probably out by now.

 Okay ladies and Gentlemen what we have here is an issue of Deadpool that is actually as funny as the series promised it would be in the first couple of issues. Especially with the interplay between him and the Black Widow. Or him and the taskaster. Either way it is some funny dialogue put to action that would otherwise look just like any issue of any other comic book. That of course is the weakness of the book. Not a huge weakness. I enjoyed the book, ad I can easily recommend it. Although since it is one part of  a larger story, maybe picking it up in TPB form is the wiser decission.
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   What she doesn't know but soon finds out is, that the This issue begins with Deadpool having asked The Black Widow if she had a boyfriend.  The response is less than what Deadpool was hoping for, as the Black Widow takes her anger out on his man parts.  
  Or at leat she would have if he wasn't packing a gun in his jock. They continue their flirting until the Paladin shows up and starts gunning for Deadpool wh quickly teleports away.  
  Deadpool is back at his hideout  talking to the Taskmaster, the two of them exchange witty banter as they prepare for the next attack. Something involving both of them being dressed the same. 
  We then cut to the Black Widow who is sittng barefoot at a table in the Thunderbolt headquarters. Paladin confronts her on what she is doing, she tells him she is researching Deadpool to come up with a plan to capture him.  
   His escape is one thing that Norman Osbourne is chastising the team about. When the quesion of how they are going to recapture him, Norman simply suggests they read the number of of the banner being dragged by an airplane. 
  Black Widow calls the number and understands that Deadpool is most likely tracing the phone call.   
call is just a diversion, and Deadpool attacks her team outside their headquarters.  He teleports into the Thunderbolt headquarters where he and Black Widow fight. A fight that ends with Deadpool giving her a big kiss.  
  Before he can find out where that might lead him, the Thunderbolts call on the radio saying they are on their way back up, and Deadpool teleports back to his headquarters. 
  There he reconviens with Taskmaster and the two set out to make their final run against the Thnderbolts. One on the ground, fighting the team, and one on the roof with Black Widow. The Widow does her flirting and offers to fly Deadpool away, but when he gets on th plane, he finds that he is trapped.

 

This issue opens with Power Girl flying to her office in New York City. he is running late for a meeting at her software firm due to a court appointment. When she arrives she finds outthat her partner has been talking to outside parties about a buy out. 
  This throws her into a tizzy and has her thinking of her own identity. How she thought she was a cousin of Superman, but found out that she was in fact the Granddaughter of Arion, an Atlantean mystic who lived 45,000 years ago.  
  After work she is on the subway when there is a traffic accident caused by an out of control motorcyclist. When she finally stops him, he has no recollection of how he got to where he was. 
  She is talking about the incident with the onsight police when one of them goes to the trunk of their squad car to ge a lock for the motorcycle. As soon as the trunk is open, a supervillain named FORCE jumps out of it seeking to hurt Power Girl. 
  The two of themfight all over New York, and Power Girl makes it a point to mention each landmark as they get to it. We find that sosmeone is pulling FORCEs strings. At the end of the book we find that it is one of Arions old foes who is beginning to cause trouble for Power Girl.  
 I I don't think we are ever going to find someone who argues that this is the best comic ever. As a matter of fact, anything above amazingly average . The art is boring, with some of the worst styles fromthe 80's adorning our heroine and her supporting cast.

 The writing is barey even worth mentioning, except for the fact that it is oe of the two most important factors of a comic, therefore it is one of the two biggest fumbles. It is obvious that DC had een less of an idea on what to do with this character back then , than they do now.

  The Arion connection is an embarrasment, and should be seen as such.  Everything says hat she has nearly the exact origin as Superman, just she  is now from the distant past, instead of a distant panet. There is absolutetly nothing here that will make me want to continue with this story.