Deadpool: We Don’t Need Another Hero
Deadpool: We Don’t Need Another Hero – Jo Kelly, Pete Woods, Ed McGuinness, Kevin Lau, John Fang (Marvel / Panini Graphic Novel)
Who doesn’t love an anti-hero? The guy or girl who effortlessly seems to walk the tight-rope between good and evil, always balancing between them, never falling into either camp, yet at the same time always managing to do the “right” thing without losing that vital ingredient that tips the scale, turning the average, work-a-day hero into the all conquering, disaster dispensing anti-hero. That’s right folks, Marvel’s poster boy for insanity, the Merc with a mouth, the grade A crazy Weapon X refugee who always ends up doing the “right” thing whether he wants to or not is back, and he’s and back with a bang. A very loud bang caused by lots of guns, explosions, bits of bodies flying this way and that and all kinds of violence and mayhem. This time, “good” ( hey, it’s subjective, good is as good does and all that) old Wade Wilson (that’s Deadpool to me and you kiddie winks) finds himself going up against Taskmaster (yeah, the same dude who later shows up to train The Initiative), loses his healing factor and has to team up with Killbrew – Pools creator and very own Victor Von Frankenstein, in order to get it back, battling the Hulk, butting heads and locking horns with Daredevil, all of which seems like an average days work compared to when his libido takes centre stage as he dances a deadly tango with Typhoid Mary and sort of makes sense of his “strange” relationship with Siryn, and at the same time, he’s being pushed from pillar to post by Landau, Luckman and Lake in an effort to tip Deadpool’s scales toward the Hero default. A setting that never worked, never could work and never will. That’s right folks, things get complicated and messy real fast, with poor Wade, as ever, caught right in the middle. Being a confirmed, card carrying Deadpool fan, I loved every frame of ‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’, the artwork is perfect, the story rattles along at V8 pace (and often makes you laugh out loud) and as with all Wade Wilson tales, ‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’ is a definite winner, and should (if there’s any justice on the world – quick, call the nearest anti-hero…) win the subject of the next Marvel Film Franchise (if rumours and idle gossip, or what’s commonly known as fact on the internet, are to be believed) more than a few more fans. I just wish there were more, much loved and sort after fourth wall moments, then it would have been perfect…Or as close to perfect as crazy gets anyway…Tim Mass Movement
