Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe is interesting, but not as much fun as I like my Deadpool. Spoilers abound in this review. The first issue opens on Sue Storm grieving with Reed Richards as he dies a rather gruesome death in the shattered remains of The Thing. Soon we find out that Deadpool has killed them, and he promptly kills the Storm siblings. But why? Flashback to Charles Xavier and some X-Men forcibly checking Deadpool into a mental hospital. It’s pretty clear that something sketchy […]
“They never realized they were puppets…made to dance and love and die and suffer…just like me…”
The Deadpool Killogy is comprised of three graphic novels. The first, Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, starts when Professor Charles Xavier has Deadpool committed to Ravenscroft Asylum. What he doesn’t know is that the famous Dr. Benjamin Brighton who heads the hospital is really Psycho-Man. The supervillain plans to brainwash Deadpool, hoping to form a super army, but it doesn’t work out like he planned. He ends up making Deadpool’s subconscious stronger. It’s true that Deadpool has always had voices in his head, but now […]