Deadpool gets by with a little help from his friends.
Deadpool #13 is an interesting comic in that it's actually four separate comics bundled in one. This trade paperback-sized issue contains all four chapters of a crossover that also draws in Charles Soule's Daredevil and David F. Walker's Power Man & Iron Fist. The bad news is that this means readers are committed to buying the entire thing up front. The good news is that, at $9.99, this comic is far cheaper than four individual issues would have been. This oversized issue isn't an essential addition to any of the three series involved, but it does offer a fun superhero romp.
The crossover begins as a hapless banker goes on the lam after losing a great deal of mob money to bad investments. He turns to Deadpool for help, who in turns recruits his fellow heroes to back him up against a ragtag band of criminals and Typhoid Mary. The stakes are never particularly high in this battle (especially considering that the odds are stacked very much in our heroes' favor), but the appeal in seeing Deadpool's wacky personality clash with Daredevil's no-nonsense attitude and Luke Cage's exasperated indifference to the mission never gets old. Each writer brings their own specific touch to their chapters, with Soule playing up the legal drama angle and Walker getting more mileage out of Luke's fatherly struggles and his inability to use real curse words.
Visually, the four chapters aren't especially cohesive, but each artist does complement their respective writer well. Both Jacopo Camagni and Paco Diaz are natural fits for Deadpool's zany world, while Guillermo Sanna has a more understated approach that suits the darker, grittier tone of Soule's Daredevil chapter. The highlight, however, is Elmo Bondoc, whose exaggerated approach in the Power Man & iron Fist chapter is a natural offshoot of Sanford Greene's style in the main Power Man & Iron Fist series.
While the tone of this issue is generally pretty lighthearted, Gerry Duggan does take the opportunity to get a little more serious in his two Deadpool chapters (as he so often does in the main Deadpool comic). Duggan is able to find real weight in the troubled relationship between Deadpool and Typhoid Mary, with Wade both hating the woman who once deceived and raped him and pitying her for having a mind almost as damaged as his own. That dramatic approach only falters in the two bookend sequences featuring Ben Urich. Rather than adding weight to the story, these two sequences merely feel pointless and out of place.
The Verdict
This issue can easily be skipped for those readers who don't feel like paying $10 for a non-essential crossover. But for those who want to see what happens when Deadpool, Daredevil, Power Man and Iron Fist reluctantly join forces, Deadpool #13 doesn't disappoint. It offers plenty of wacky fun, with a few dramatic moments thrown in for good measure.
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