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A review by crookedtreehouse
Cable & Deadpool, Volume 1: If Looks Could Kill by Patrick Zircher, Mark Brooks, Fabian Nicieza
3.0
This is very nearly a four star collection. It's an easy-to-follow plot, the dialog, while never Laugh Out Loud funny, is well-written and plays to the Deadpool Says Inappropriate Shit trope without being insufferable or seeming like an excuse for the writer to be "edgy".
Unfortunately, there's a sequence in the fifth issue that's pivotal to the plot that is impossible to follow. It progresses the story to the sixth issue, but I've reread those pages for times now, and I still have no idea where most of it takes place and how it's supposed to happen.
The overall story, though, that Deadpool is hired to help a cult steal a virus that Cable is trying, for the good of humanity, to destroy works as a fine intro for the characters. You should have no problem following the story (apart from that four page sequence in issue five) even if you've never read a book with either of these characters before. There's no "As seen in Issue #4 of OldAssComic!" or "Cable and Deadpool learned to do the Watusi in OldAddComic Issue #342, On Sale Now!"
I would recommendit for people wanting to know more about these characters before seeing the Deadpool 2 movie, people who love the X-books but haven't really loved any Cable and/or Deadpool titles, X-fans who don't think Beast, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Domino,and Apocalypse should be the only blue people in the Marvel Universe, and people who wanted to read this series when it came out but couldn't get past those awful Liefeld covers.
Unfortunately, there's a sequence in the fifth issue that's pivotal to the plot that is impossible to follow. It progresses the story to the sixth issue, but I've reread those pages for times now, and I still have no idea where most of it takes place and how it's supposed to happen.
The overall story, though, that Deadpool is hired to help a cult steal a virus that Cable is trying, for the good of humanity, to destroy works as a fine intro for the characters. You should have no problem following the story (apart from that four page sequence in issue five) even if you've never read a book with either of these characters before. There's no "As seen in Issue #4 of OldAssComic!" or "Cable and Deadpool learned to do the Watusi in OldAddComic Issue #342, On Sale Now!"
I would recommendit for people wanting to know more about these characters before seeing the Deadpool 2 movie, people who love the X-books but haven't really loved any Cable and/or Deadpool titles, X-fans who don't think Beast, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Domino,and Apocalypse should be the only blue people in the Marvel Universe, and people who wanted to read this series when it came out but couldn't get past those awful Liefeld covers.