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A review by yurana
Deadpool by Daniel Way: The Complete Collection, Volume 3 by Bong Dazo, Salvador Espin, John McCrea, Jim Calafiore, Carlos Barberi, Sheldon Vella, Daniel Way
2.0
I'm really torn about this one. On the one side Deadpool as a character finally moves forward in a way that makes him interesting again. Not just as a one-liner dropping comedian, but an actually character with goals and motivations. It brings back what I liked so much about the Cable & Deadpool series.
On the other side there is the middle part of the book where Deadpool is institutionalized and we get one of the worst characters in any Marvel comic I've ever read; Dr. Ella Whitby. Well, it's not so much her who is so horrible (she is a pretty shameless Harley Quinn ripoff though), but the way this comic treats her is just disgusting. If you ever asked yourself whether comics have a problem with women look no further. Every other character in this book (all men) calls her fat, ugly, a harpy and a million other things. Her crime? She is assertive, looks rather average and she snorts when she laughs (oh the horror). Luckily, later on we learn that she is actually an insane person who is madly in love with Deadpool so I guess that makes this okay, retroactively? Or something? And Deadpool, who just a few issues ago was married to some giant alien bug-hippo, is also absolutely disgusted by her. After all, one has to have standards and a woman with an average to slightly overweight figure who snorts when she laughs is clearly the most horrible thing he ever had to deal with.... So yeah I could go on and on about this.
The rest of the book is fine, even good, but this just overshadowed everything else.
On the other side there is the middle part of the book where Deadpool is institutionalized and we get one of the worst characters in any Marvel comic I've ever read; Dr. Ella Whitby. Well, it's not so much her who is so horrible (she is a pretty shameless Harley Quinn ripoff though), but the way this comic treats her is just disgusting. If you ever asked yourself whether comics have a problem with women look no further. Every other character in this book (all men) calls her fat, ugly, a harpy and a million other things. Her crime? She is assertive, looks rather average and she snorts when she laughs (oh the horror). Luckily, later on we learn that she is actually an insane person who is madly in love with Deadpool so I guess that makes this okay, retroactively? Or something? And Deadpool, who just a few issues ago was married to some giant alien bug-hippo, is also absolutely disgusted by her. After all, one has to have standards and a woman with an average to slightly overweight figure who snorts when she laughs is clearly the most horrible thing he ever had to deal with.... So yeah I could go on and on about this.
The rest of the book is fine, even good, but this just overshadowed everything else.