No other character can have an issue like this and be successful. Certainly no very-in current continuity character at the Big II. Deadpool is like the circus visiting you, and when the circus visits the X-Men -via ringmasters Daniel Way and Paco Medina- you get one of the two regular titles at Marvel that every month prove that fun comics (along with Agents of Atlas) can thrive, to the extent that this “comics should all go to OGNs” flag waver can see the value in needing each and ever 30-day fix. Hell, put me down for The Daily Deadpool.
The issue even has the gall to begins with an ugly mug. Deadpool can’t catch a break, as even the eternal super-step children of the Marvel Universe – the X-Men – don’t want anything to with the asylum seeking Deadpool. This in itself isn’t too much of a event. That the decision was made in a split second isn’t either. The remarkable aspect is that same conclusion (or rather the spirit of it) was reached by the historically disagreeable. Neither Cyclops or Wolverine want him around, but the latter does considers the consequences, a Deadpool-induced oddity for that character in itself. After reconsideration, they eventually decide to send Domino, a character that’s history actually goes back to the same issue as the Merc (New Mutants#98), though some retconning conditions exist) to bring him in. We get what is becoming patented Way confrontation, one that has to be experienced, not described. It involves pancakes.
While Deadpool stories offer opportunity for a creative team to indulge even the most eccentric of whims, for me it is the fact that no matter how out of (any) frame he’s cast, he generally remains consistent in that his decisions and choices, no matter how absurd, resemble common sense that’s true to his origin. Deadpool is an assassin-his name literally a wager and timer on death. His answer is to kill. Because of having this singular and universal response, he doesn’t consider at length questions, and this often times puts him on a deliberate course of judicious buffoonery. An odd, perhaps impossible combination to be sure, but is one that makes the character unique–questions regarding Deadpool, even those asking the exact opposite, have a tendency to share the same answer. What’s so good about Deadpool ?
To quote Cyclops and Wolverine, “Everything”.
