Brandon Borzelli's Geek Goggle Reviews
Deadpool #27
Marvel Comics
Posehn, Duggan, Hawthorne, Nicieza, Waid, Kelly, Simone, Koblish, Hepburn, McCrea, Medina, Palmiotti, Way, Tieri, Timms & Medina
Deadpool gets married in this enormous comic book that comes at you with eighty pages of story for the ridiculously over-priced amount of ten dollars. Contained within the comic is a twenty page lead-in story from the regular creative team where Deadpool gets married. The rest of the comic contains small stories about Deadpool's marriages or near-miss ones. Most of the small stories come in at five pages a piece while packing a who's who of creators. The book is a lot of Deadpool doing a lot of the same stuff over and over again. I can't say the book wasn't entertaining but I can't help but think while I'm reading, "I can't believe I dropped ten bucks on 15 stories about Deadpool getting married." While enjoyable, this one is for the die-hards.
The main story is a good one. For anyone that is reading the regular series they might be thrown off with the sudden shift from the previous issues where Deadpool is dealing with a ton of emotional fallout and no girlfriend on the horizon. However, this story actually fits well in the series and clearly will have legs going forward. The artwork is the usual high quality and helps the story present the story very well, whether it's a humorous part or a dramatic one.
The backup stories all take on the same theme of Deadpool getting married. Some of the stories are downright hysterical, the Vegas one comes to mind, while others hit the mark but don't quite reach a memorable level. Some of the stories are simply too wordy as the writer tries to jam in too much information in a five page stretch. Some of the weddings have little twists within the story whereas some of the weddings are straightforward Deadpool being Deadpool. There is such a wide range here I'm sure there is something to love and something to dislike for every reader.
Comic books might be the only reading material out there that jumps around the price scale with no predictability. Four bucks for twenty pages, eight bucks for forty pages, five bucks for thirty-eight pages, etc. However, when you stick a ten dollar price tag on a comic the page count becomes almost irrelevant. You've reached a barrier where the contents better be spectacular and that is not the case here at all. The contents are serviceable. I recall anniversary issues of Captain America and Spider-Man having more pages and costing five bucks and being much higher in quality.
One of the aspects of the book that rubbed me the wrong way was how Marvel took at jab at DC with the "most important issue 27 in the history of comics" shot against Batman's first appearance. Perhaps it wouldn't be too much if the cover already didn't contain the Guinness World Record holder tag, which is another head-shaker. Once you get past the cover's noise it's a pretty cool cover.
Honestly, the thing I most enjoyed with the issue was the cover. Packing in all the characters and trying to guess them was fairly enjoyable, especially knowing the answer was in the back of the book.
If you are willing to drop ten bucks on a comic book about Deadpool then you probably will like this issue. If you are a fan of the character and loved some of the character's creators over the years then this book is probably a dream come true. To me, it's a little bit too much Deadpool, but I was still entertained for a good stretch of time. At the very least, pick this up off the shelf and look at the cover for a while.
3 out of 5 Geek Goggles
