![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Title: Deadpool Classic Volume 2
Editor: Mark D. Beazley
Published: New York: Marvel, 2011 (2009)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 256
Total Page Count: 135,806
Text Number: 398
Read Because: continuing the series, borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Containing Deadpool #2-8, Deadpool #-1 (a standalone flashback to his past), and Deadpool/Daredevil Annual 1997, this is a surprisingly united collection: at this point, Deadpool's story is a morality saga. On an issue by issue basis, this may be ponderous or simplistic or ignored—but as the issues stack up, the topic gains subtlety and becomes an increasingly effective motivation to plot and character which steers the series away from frivolous mutant-battles-of-the-month. Deadpool's running narrative often offers some counterbalancing levity, but it can also stand in violent contrast to his actions. The art is much sleeker and more unified than in Volume 1 (Deadpool #-1 is a distinct exception), but there were some printing flaws in the imprint I read. I don't want to oversell this volume: it's not stellar storytelling, but Joe Kelly is finding his stride and it reflects throughout these issues.
Review posted here on Amazon.com.
Editor: Mark D. Beazley
Published: New York: Marvel, 2011 (2009)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 256
Total Page Count: 135,806
Text Number: 398
Read Because: continuing the series, borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Containing Deadpool #2-8, Deadpool #-1 (a standalone flashback to his past), and Deadpool/Daredevil Annual 1997, this is a surprisingly united collection: at this point, Deadpool's story is a morality saga. On an issue by issue basis, this may be ponderous or simplistic or ignored—but as the issues stack up, the topic gains subtlety and becomes an increasingly effective motivation to plot and character which steers the series away from frivolous mutant-battles-of-the-month. Deadpool's running narrative often offers some counterbalancing levity, but it can also stand in violent contrast to his actions. The art is much sleeker and more unified than in Volume 1 (Deadpool #-1 is a distinct exception), but there were some printing flaws in the imprint I read. I don't want to oversell this volume: it's not stellar storytelling, but Joe Kelly is finding his stride and it reflects throughout these issues.
Review posted here on Amazon.com.
