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Deadpool Volume Three Issue 45

Posted by John Klein III on October 22, 2015
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Deadpool V3 45

Or issue 250 of Volume One, pending on who you ask.  Since the Indicia states, 45, that’s the one I’m going with.  I own this for

Deadpool Roasts the Marvel Universe
An Infinity Gauntlet Tie-In

Words Gerry Duggan & Brian Posehn

Lines Scott Koblish

Hues Val Staples

Balloons VC’s Joe Sabino

Special Thanks to David Mandell

How great is it that 24 years later, we are getting an Infinity Gauntlet tie-in!?!  So great!

Deadpool V3 45 Infinity Gaunthlet Roast Title Page

You can tell that we are about to begin a twenty page awesome story with just that title page above!  I’m surprised the entire thing isn’t on the Internet yet (as oppose to other stories being fully available, maybe it is the length of it?)

“The writers chose to write bizarre versions of current characters and to include characters that had never been seen before.  . . . wait 24 years” so great.

Then.  Deadpool has just successfully stolen something.  Inferno is coming, Spider-Man is a clone, Phoenix is dead – pretty much tells us where we are in the world of Marvel.  Gosh, from 1991 to 2015, so much has happened!

Deadpool’s client is . . . Thanos, in his legendary Thanos-copter (of course).  Thanos had Deadpool steal him a cosmic cube.  Turns out, Deadpool didn’t give Thanos the real cube, he used it to snatch the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos.

What does Deadpool do with the most powerful item in the universe?  One Night One : Deadpool Roasts the Marvel Universe.  This will be my second most favorite Marvel Roast.  Deadpool does this so that he can get back at everybody that has kept him down.  A lady mistakes him for Spider-Man, so he erases her from continuity.  Before he can start, Howard the Duck arrives.  Howard changes the marquee, as it is in his rider to – Deadpool Roasts the Marvel Universe Special, Guest MC : Howard the Duck.

Deadpool’s dais consists of – Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor and Nick Fury.

Deadpool V3 45 Infinity Gaunthlet Roast Magik

I own this entire $9.99 comic due to the one panel that Magik appears in above!  Emma gets a line later in the comic and Illyana isn’t even in that panel!

Like any good roast, there is a common easy joke that everyone can make, in Deadpool’s case, it is his face.  His face is pretty tore back, due to his cancer, which is pretty messed up to make fun of him for it.

Howard makes a great joke about how everyone only likes Deadpool when he graces their comic cover, as that is a boost to their sales.

There is a great panel of how the blind characters got horrible seats.  There is Stick, Shroud, Daredevil, Blindfold, her mother, Destiny, Madame Web, Echo and Blind Al.  I thought Echo was deaf and not blind.

The first roaster is Wolverine, wearing a Goblin Queen outfit, but he doesn’t know it.  Elektra is enjoying herself.  Sabretooth is not happy that he is trying to be the new Wolverine.

Storm is up next, she is surprised to see that Hitler is in attendance.  Magneto isn’t happy to discovery that Hitler is sitting at the table behind his.  Hitler gleefully says that he was the star of issue 26, the issue prior to Deadpool and Shiklah’s wedding.

Deadpool V3 45 Roast Emma 2

Deadpool starts to grow tired of Howard’s antics and makes a reference to Howard’s after credits scene in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Thanks to YouTuber Eczavier Chaff for hosting this video.

Emma is tired of this silly business.  I wish Magik got to be appear in that panel!  Poor Phoebe, she still can’t get colorist to color her hair red, outside of Uncanny and All New.

Cable is up next and he is extremely tired of being paired with Deadpool.  There is a second theme of the roast, that people are just plain tired of Deadpool.

Thor states that no one likes Deadpool, god or mortal.  Deadpool’s face looks like Heidrun the Goat’s backside, which looks like Mangog’s backside.  Magog does not appreciate that and makes fun of Thor via a Thunderstrike reference.

Spider-Man gets on the mic and bombs.  He references seeing Gwen’s dead and her father, George Stacey’s death.  He discusses the Venom symbiote, Agent Venom states that Spider-Man likes it.  Spider-Man tries to fake that Doctor Octopus has controlled again.  Doctor Octopus chimes in, that he is the superior joke teller.

Daredevil jokes that he has heard back things.  Howard the Duck makes fun of the lame joke and Blind Al swears at him, again.

Kim, who has had forced surgery to look like a purple Nightcrawler (I reviewed an issue he was appeared in issue 38 of Volume Three).  He compliments Deadpool, so Howard pushes him off the stage.  Kurt, the real Nightcrawler, takes the stage and claims that being dead is funnier than listening to Deadpool.

Agent Adsit takes the stage.  He chooses to not make any jokes about Deadpool’s face – instead, going after Little Deadpool.  He describes it as being a hot dog that has been microwaved too long.  Shiklah laughs so hard, as it is so true.

Michael the Necromancer states that he is no hero but neither is Deadpool, which isn’t the most untruthful thing to say.

Hulk is next.  He starts strong, with stating that he is the strongest there is.  Except in stink, Deadpool wins that.  When the jokes don’t go over well, he smashes his way out of the room.

Nick Fury Jr. is next but he doesn’t know what to say, so his father steps in.  Proper Nick (not the old guy from Original Sin, so this must be a LMD) states that Deadpool is the worst guy in the universe.  Which, funny enough, insults Hitler.

Captain America (but also not old) states that he doesn’t get a lot of Deadpool’s jokes but ends with a cheesy joke about how Deadpool and Red Skull must share a dermatologist.

Doctor Strange says that Deadpool covers his pain with jokes and wishes that no one had to be present for this.

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A giant lizard dude shows up but isn’t name checked, I was hoping he would be.  Deadpool and Thor tore him a new one and now he shits in a bag, which he offers to show people.  I wish we got the name and the issue number that happened in.

The Ghost of Benjamin Franklin gets a turn.  He comments on how horrible Deadpool’s face is that people are ignoring the fact that he is a horrible friend and pretty shallow.

Shiklah (I can’t seem to remember how to spell her name) takes the microphone.  She agrees that his face isn’t great, vampires even feel bad for him but he is the hottest man she has ever met.  They have a rule, no matter how much they battle, their love making is that much more intense.

Agent Preston gets her turn, her son – Jeff –  wrote the jokes. The jokes are all poop jokes but funny poop jokes.  “Your face looks like a doody took a doody on it.   Your face looks like a sewer farted on it.  Your face caught on fire and someone tried to put it out with poop.  You face looks like a wizard made a poop sword and a young knight pulled it out of a poop stone and stabbed your face with it.”  Deadpool is very proud.

Deadpool finally gets to defend himself.  He gets a swipe at Alpha Flight.  Because he is wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, his jokes are super funny to those who hear them and everyone starts laughing.  He starts taking shots at the guests.  Man Thing’s table is giant size.  Deadpool has never killed anyone in a wheelchair, unlike Cyclops.  Though Xavier wasn’t in a wheelchair at that time.  Deadpool says that once Domino is done with her guest panel, she will go back to obscurity.  Nightcrawler isn’t able to teleport away, as people start noticing something is wrong.

Deadpool was making people laugh as nothing matter, as he thinks about his origins retold in five panels (the lights of the Infinity Gems).  Due to him wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, he can see us, the reader.  Deadpool is depress as he knows he isn’t real and his torments are due to us needing to be entertain.  Howard the Duck knows who Deadpool is talking too, as Howard the Duck was breaking the fourth wall decades before Deadpool came out of Rob Liefeld’s pen.

Issue ends with Thanos, still in the Thanos-copter.  Deadpool gives Thanos the Infinity Gauntlet and is kicked out of the copter.

The other stories in the issue are –

The main story, which is pretty fun.

Thanks to the Recap page, we learn that Deadpool has a daughter, Ellie, and Agent Preston has been raising her.

U.L.T.I.M.A.T.I.U.M. is going after Deadpool’s friends and family but they are being killed as they make their attempts.  Agent Adsit is shot though.  Flag Smasher suspects Deadpool is going to go the traditional route of over reacting and barge at them with the full fury of an animated wounded animal.  Instead. Deadpool has a plan that pretty much goes as he planned it.  Deadpool has everything finalized, including buying a farm in Kansas and he invites U.L.T.I.M.A.T.I.U.M. to attack him.  Deadpool starts killing everyone of these foolish fools.  He makes a AXIS reference by referring to his Zenpool identity.  Deadpool saves Flag Smasher for last.  Wade Wilson kills Deadpool, so that he can keep his friends safe and that he can spend time with his wife and child.

Six Days Later.  Everyone is on a stolen yacht.  Agent Adsit is in a wheelchair, so he lives.

The final Incursion between the Proper Marvel Earth and the Ultimate Earth.  Wade thought all of this Incursion silliness was Avengers nonsense, which I thought so as well.  Wade hugs his daughter one last time.

Deadpool V3 45 Incursion

The main story ends with the Death of Deadpool but also, of everyone else as the Incursion of the Proper Marvel Earth and the Ultimate Earth begins.

There is a section of stories regarding Deadpool’s Pals ‘N’ Gals

Shiklah in Shiklah’s Catching Up (this credit page is what I kept referring back to so that I spelled her name right)

Agent Preston in The Family S.H.I.E.L.D.

Evan Sabahnur in What Do We Want?  Apocalypse!  When Do We Want It?  Now!

Agent Scott Adsit in The Thwipster and the Quipster Battel the Hipsters!

Benjamin Franklin in All About the Benjamins

Michael the Necromancer in Parents : The Meeting

Then came the Roast

There is a three pages of #RIPdeadpool reprints that I wish I had known about so that I could have gotten involved.

Finally, a fun page of Clark Gregg yelling at editor Jordan D. White for killing off Deadpool.

Pretty fantastic send off for a character!

Infinity Gauntlet 2

Posted by John Klein III on November 11, 2014
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Infinity Gauntlet 2

Writer Jim Starlin

Penciler George Perez

Inker Josef Rubinstein

Letterer Jack Morelli

Colorist Max Schelle

Cover Dated August 1991

Part Two of Six

The miniseries that taught me that there is no ‘h’ in Gauntlet.

From the cover, Captain America turn 50 in 1991!  So he is now 73 in 2014!  So 2016 is going to be Captain America’s 75th birthday!  Wowza!  Which is when his third film starring Chris Evans comes out, so that’s some good synergy there!

I only own this issue of the six.  I do own the trade so I know what happens in it but this issue has an appearance by Kitty Pryde!  Who happens to be one of the missing heroes.

So last issue, Thanos – now having all six of the Infinity Gems – Time, Space, Mind, Soul, Reality, and Power – and having fashioned them onto a glove, snapped his fingers and half of the universe’s population disappeared.  He did this to try to make Death, who he fancies, take notice of him.  It didn’t work.

There are certain panels, like close up on Wanda’s eyes, that are so distinctly George Perez that it makes me realize that I miss reading his work if too much time passes.

Issue opens with the Avengers – She-Hulk, Thor and Vision, helping land a plane that lost both its pilot and co-pilot.  They help all of the passengers off of the plane.

Quasar, still trying to balance being the guardian of the universe and running his company – Vaughn Security Systems (see?  He does both all the time!).  He is summoned by the cosmic entity, Epoch, as he is needed for a meeting.

The Kree Empire believes the Great Disappearance, is the result of a Skrull plan so interplanetary wars are about to begin.

Doctor Strange is watching over Silver Surfer, his fellow Defender, as the Surfer heals in the sunlight.  Hank Pym was asked to come by to help but all he can do is pat Strange on the back for doing all he can do.  Hank Pym, not the best guy to have around.

Once Pym leaves, Strange is teleported to another type of plane of existence, a golden plane.  I’m not sure what happen to Wong but he got replaced with a green looking fella – Rintrah.  This mysterious being who summoned Strange is Adam Warlock.  He wants to organize an elite taskforce of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!  Strange needs more answers before agreeing to help, so they open their souls to each other.

Doctor Doom recognizes that half of the universe’s populace is gone and he seeks out who is behind this.  The same signature that took the people is also located in a small town in New York and at Doctor Strange’s house.

This comic has the nerve to have the trifecta of the worst characters Marvel has to offer – Starfox, Colossus and Wonder Man.  At least Colossus is barely on the page when we see him.

We start with Starfox as he gets teleported away.  He is Thanos’ brother (a fact I keep forgetting about).  Their father is Mentor, but Thanos teleports him elsewhere.  Once Starfox is with Thanos, he recognizes that Thanos’ granddaughter Nebula is there – but she looks like a walking corpse.  It is pretty mess up.

Also present is Mephisto who is Thanos’ advisor in this adventure.

Starfox starts trying to use his rape powers … I mean his emotion manipulating powers – on Thanos.  As thanks for his efforts, Thanos seals Starfox’s mouth shut.  That’ll show him!  Starfox, is the worst.

Over at the Avengers mansion, we are treated to Perez drawing various characters as Captain America reaches out to try to figure out who is still living and who has disappeared.  Still no word yet on the X-Men or Excalibur.  In that panel, we see four mutants – Shadowcat, Jubilee, Colossus and Psylocke.  Not sure why Kitty is in that group, or how that image came about.

Infinity Gauntlet 2 Kitty Pryde Page 19

So that’s why I own this issue.  Funny how once I get to the page that I bought the comic for – my interest in the rest of the comic lessens.

Thor comments to himself how he isn’t the original Thor – so he must be Eric Masterson, soon to be Thunderstrike.  He goes about pretending like he is Thor.

Odin has summoned Those Who Watched From Above, also known as the Sky-Fathers – so Zeus is there.  I really like the concept of all of the same gods getting together.  It just makes sense.  Jupiter should be there too.  Even though we might not think of them as being popular, to each other, they are peers.  I guess Jupiter/Zeus are the same guy.

The other Skyfathers are – Itzamna (Mayan), Manitou (Algonquian), Nuada (Celtic), Osiris (Egyptian), Svarog (Slavic) and Tezcatlipoca (Aztec).

Odin gets them all to agree to fight as a united force.

Quasar is told to wait, which is what he is good at.

The Pip portion of the comic happens.  I have a hard time getting into Starlin’s pet characters unless they are Thanos.  Pip and Adam Warlock, and probably anyone else who shows up in this series that is unique to it.  I just never found Pip that funny, he’s pretty much a shorter dirtier Deadpool.

Doctor Doom pays a house visit to Doctor Strange.  Silver Surfer wakes up to find so many doctors around him.  Doctor Doom wants Strange to inform him of everything that has occurred.

Just then Adam Warlock shows up, and Doom isn’t impressed with him at all.  Warlock has lost to Thanos twice already, one of them resulting in his death – so why should he lead the united heroes against Thanos?  It is a dman good question!

Thanos is torturing his brother and granddaughter.

Mephisto tells Thanos that none of this is getting the attention of Death.

Adam Warlock believes since he knows how the Infinity Gems work, that he should be the leader.  Doom isn’t buying that reasoning.  Doom knows that none of the dumb heroes will follow him so he agrees that they might follow Warlock.

Thanos as found a new way to torture Starfox and Nebula.  This new fashion isn’t impressing Death.

Thanos then makes the mistake of yelling at Death, that she hasn’t even look at him much less say his name.

Galactus takes note of Thanos now being a cosmic threat, as his rage just destroyed a planet.  Galactus starts thinking of a plan to stop Thanos.

His rage took on the form of a psychic wave – and it has destroyed a quarter of the universe.  By the time it gets to Earth, it is down to two percent of its strength.

On Earth, Cloak is thinking of ending things.  Dagger is missing and he has no reason to go forward.  So cool to see Cloak drawn by Perez.

I’m not much of a cosmic Marvel reader, which is Starlin’s bread and butter, so I respect him for all of his stellar opus but I don’t read nearly half of it.

Just then, the psychic wave hits the planet.  Buildings start to crumble, Wolverine (in a Canadian tuxedo) saves a family.  They thank him but he grimly responses that he may have saved them for a quick death.

Iron Man, who is hovering in space, can’t believe the world wide destruction.  He witnesses the entire west coast of America breaking off and sinking.  It is quite the sight!

We see Scarlet Witch and Wonder Man as they deal with the destruction of their adoptive home – as they are members of the West Coast Avengers.  They can’t believe that California is gone.  We get a close up of Wanda’s eyes and they are clearly drawn by the legendary George Perez.

Now I’m being weird about how much I enjoy George Perez.

We learn that even Asgard got destroyed in the process.  Even the Rainbow Bridge is gone!

Maybe even worst is that all the Skyfathers are now stuck in Asgard, so they can’t get to their realms!

From Namor, we learn that new volcanoes have been created on the seabed.  Which causes tidal waves.  One heads to the East Coast of America and the other to Japan.

Namorita saves one couple but that’s all she can do as the tidal wave hits Atlantic City – everyone else in the city is dead by drowning.

Lastly, Thor confirms the worst that has happened – Japan is completely gone.  The great island country has sunk.  Just the concept alone is mind bending!

Over at Avengers Mansion, thanks to New York bedrock, the mansion still stands.  We get a process report – She-Hulk has located Spider-Man, Black Widow found Cloak and Vision is talking to the Inhumans.

Captain America talks to Wanda, the West Coast Avengers have moved to Vegas.

Issue ends at Doctor Strange’s house.  The rest of the houses nearby are rubble, but his stand.  He didn’t get time to cast a neighborhood wide protection spell – or so he claims.

So that’s it for the issue and our time here at S&FwM’s visit with Infinity Gauntlet.  It is a great series.  This is the series people talk about how Captain America stood up to Thanos, and proves how bad arse he really is.  That’s usually the big moment people talk about from this series.

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Wanted to say Happy Veterans’ Day to all those who serve and protect us!  As well to those who have retired from duty.  My mother served in the Army for most of my childhood and the military has always been good to us.

I sleep better knowing that you all are out there and I appreciate what you are doing!