Deadpool LOVES Spider-Man. Spider-Man HATES Deadpool. What could go wrong? More importantly – what on Earth could bring these two together for a titanic team-up in the mighty Marvel manner?

Wallcrawling, wisecracking and bad guy stabbing, the first issue of Spider-Man/Deadpool #1 written by Joe Kelly is what I expected as far as content. Deadpool here is very similar to Kelly’s previous takes on the character with lots of jokes and non sequiturs that you’d expect. If you enjoy all of that, this one is for you. I guess when it just comes down to it, I don’t find Deadpool that funny. He’s a character I like either in small doses or the more serious take from Remender’s X-Force run. The fact he’s front and center in the Marvel Universe now… yeah, not that enjoyable for me.

What’s interesting to me in this issue is Spider-Man as the straight-man. Out of the two, I was fully in Spidey’s camp, irritated at the constant jokes, most of which involved the two rubbing up against each other and Deadpool being turned on by that. That goes for pages and pages, and after the third of fourth time it gets old.

Ed McGuinness‘ art is really good. The design of the two characters is solid and the situations and action is really good. Out of the two, the art was far more interesting to me. There’s some perspectives that are interesting and the design of the bad guy is a new take on him that looks kind of cool.

Your enjoyment of the comic is squarely on whether you find Deadpool funny or entertaining. To me, we’re well beyond Wolverine saturation and in to annoying guy you don’t want to be around anymore.

Story: Joe Kelly Art: Ed McGuinness
Story: 6.7 Art: 7.8 Overall: 7 Recommendation: Read

Marvel provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review