I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.The more knowledge the better seems like a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity’s unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.-Sarah Vowell

Friday, September 15, 2017

Spider-Man/Deadpool: Volume One: Isn't It Bromantic by Joe Kelly (Writer), Ed McGuinness (Penciler) Mark Morales with Livesay (Inkers), Jason Keith (Colorist), and VC's Joe Sabino (Letterer)


This comic opens with Spidey and Deadpool being held captive by Dormammu of Hell and needing to rely on each other to escape.  Of course, it turns out that Deadpool had set the whole thing up of Dormammu in order to spend time with Spiderman.  He later shows up to help Spiderman with the bad guy Hydraman which goes horribly wrong for Wade (Deadpool). They do get the bad guy.

Deadpool has a reason for wanting to spend all this time with Spider-man and it isn't just because he thinks the world of him as a superhero.  Deadpool has hired to take out Peter Parker Spiderman's best friend and protector and Deadpool wants to get a sense if whether or not the intel he got was legit without having to actually ask Spider-man anything.

The two find themselves going up against Mysterio who causes Spider-man to hallucinate and see the Green Goblin everywhere, but Deadpool knocks him out of the hallucination and the two take down Mysterio before he can do damage to the city. While Beck, Mysterio, is in the hospital recovering Parker goes to visit him and Deadpool arrives ready to take him out only to be foiled by a visit by "Spider-man", or Hobie Brown the man who sometimes stands in for Spider-man when Parker needs him to on occasion in order to keep up the appearance that the two of them are different people.  This stops Deadpool in his tracks and he leaves.

Next Deadpool invites him to do a job with him in Bolivia where they run into Styx and Stone and Deadpool forgets to tell Spider-man that the job is for a drug lord.  A few days later Spider-man calls up Deadpool and asks him if he wants to hang out. So Deadpool takes him clubbing at his club but arranges a digital identity for Spider-man so his date and others won't recognize him as Spider-man.  Things, of course, get out of hand and Thor arrives to be Deadpool's date only she doesn't know that.  She's on his Free Pass list that he and his wife, Shiklah, have.  Unfortunately, Spider-man's date is a succubus who hates Asgardians so a fight between the two break out and the men really enjoy the fight a bit too much so the ladies find a way to make them pay for it.

But Wade hasn't forgotten his contract and he believes that Parker is an evil man doing evil things in his lab and that he deserves to die and he deserves to be paid for it.  So he walks up to Parker's door and shoots him dead.  Now it's time to celebrate, but will Spider-man ever forgive him?

I'm surprised it took this long for someone to pair the two most wise-assed characters in Marvel together for a comic (in both ways) run.  This comic is full of riffs and one-liners. The two set each other up and play off each other like a great comedy team.  They also fight well together and it's sweet that Deadpool crushes on Spider-man so much and Spider-man doesn't like him all that much in the beginning, as he was the reason he left the Avengers.  But after spending some time with him he comes to change his mind about Deadpool. Deadpool killing him, will, of course, change this.  This comic also includes a comic with the Vision family adjusting to the suburban life and how something strange is going on in the neighborhood. This comic is everything you could want and more with a cherry on top.  I eagerly await the next one.

Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Deadpool-Vol-Bromantic-2016-ebook/dp/B01JT4A2D2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505338900&sr=8-1&keywords=spider-man%2Fdeadpool+1   

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