Marvel Minute Pick of the Week
Writer:
Gerry Duggan
Pencils:
Matteo Lolli & Mike Hawthorne
Inks:
Christian Dalla Vecchia & Terry Pallot
Colors: Ruth
Redmond
Marvel
Comics
Release
Date: July 26, 2017
Cover Price:
$3.99
Deadpool Fights the Power
What do you
do if you find yourself unknowingly and unwillingly tricked into working under
Stevil Rodgers, who then duped you into murdering a close friend/ally? Well
Deadpool is about to fill us in on the ins and out of that situation, as this
arc continues tying into Secret Empire, and let’s just say things are getting
ugly. Unbeknownst to Hydra, Deadpool is on a quest to take down Hydra Cap, but also
has a hell of a lot going on in his personal life to deal with first … does
Hydra offer vacation days? Jump in to find out that and more.
Read that
recap page if you’re not a regular and it’s a pretty decent catch up point on
the arc so far. From there our issue starts with Deadpool entering a Hydra base,
with the Trapster as prisoner, as Deadpool stands at attention buck naked! Hydra’s
higher ups aren’t super pleased with the Merc with a Mouth because he keeps
bringing in smaller time ‘heroes’ and ‘bad guys’ while Hydra wants a specific
target … Maria Hill.
Act 2 comes early
in our issue after these events, and with it an art change (black, white, and
red all over). This scene is a giant fight between Deadpool and Emily Preston, longtime
friend of Deadpool’s and his daughter’s caretaker. Preston mostly does the
majority of the ass whopping laying the smack down on Wade in a variety of
ways. You can tell she is PISSED at him, for killing Collison in previous
issues, and the exchange between the two isn’t pleasant.
As Emily
think she’s approaching Deadpool to finish him off, Deadpool he pulls a grenade
pin, blowing them both to bits as he states ‘you should have never got close’ a
heavy phrase with a double meaning.
Post blast Preston,
being an LMD, is in the midst of rebooting, which Wade puts a stop too. Despite
Deadpool actions however the LMD wakes up any way, as Wade is cutting out the
power supply, destroying it once and for all, but also removing the CPU/Memory Bank
it looks like as well to potentially bring her back in the future.
Wade packages
the remains into a box sending it to an undisclosed location. The art change
concludes with Deadpool going back to the Preston residence to take Ellie back
with him to his house after these recent events have gone down, telling Preston’s
family in the process she’s went underground.
Back to the
current time/story, Deadpool is seemingly walking Trapster to a cell in prison
when their staged fight breaks out. This
springs some Hydra guards into action causing a distraction Deadpool needs to (I’m
a little fuzzy here) find the inmate he needs, and stash him somewhere for
later, I think? Or possibly use him for vital information.
Blackouts
appears to the person in question who Deadpool was after, and with a little
research discovering Blackout possess a Darkforce Power set, which could be a
setup for an attempt by Deadpool to rescues those in the Dark Dimension trapped
in New York.
In the end
Deadpool has used Trapster as a pawn all along leaving him memoryless and in
Hydra prison after helping setup his shenanigans. The issue then concludes with
Deadpool leaving the prison seemingly empty handed stating he’s off to find
Maria Hill, while under his breath stating he’s really going to use her to lure
Steve Rodgers out and end this nightmare once and for all.
Overall I
have been out of the Deadpool game for a while, having not read an issue of
this current run since the mid-twenties, but this was an very entertaining addition
to the series overall, despite its tie-in status. There are some interesting layers to this
problem Deadpool has to face and seeing him attempt to take Hydra down from the
inside has me interested moving forward.
This isn’t something you need to be reading Secret Empire to enjoy as a
story and the art compliments the tone throughout the book even when it
undergoes a change in the middle of the issue.
Kudos goes to
the entire creative team for dealing with a company line mandate to tie the
book into an event in such a great way.
Bits and Pieces
The Deadpool
series, despite its tie-in status, is capitalizing on an interesting premise,
dragging Deadpool’s personal life and decisions, into a line wide event in a
very intriguing way. The art compliments
the story telling very well, with Act 2 of the issue, being a very impactful
fight scene that will have implications going forward for Deadpool as a whole.
8.0/10
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