Wade Wilson: Deadpool #4 // Review
The trunk of a limousine isn't any more classy than the trunk of any other car. Wade has found reason to find the trunk of this particular limousine to be less than appealing. He’s found broken teeth, torn fingernails and bloodstains in that trunk. He's got his hands tied behind his back and he's just sort of waiting around so he might as well do a little bit of exploration. But that's what he finds. There's every reason to believe that the people who have him in that trunk probably should find some other hobbies. He’s about to tell them as much in Wade Wilson: Deadpool #4. Writer Benjamin Percy gets into a little bit of dark comedy with artist Geoff Shaw and colorist Alex Sinclair.
There's a really good chance that Deadpool has had quite a bit of experience in the trunks of various vehicle vehicles. He knows exactly how to position himself. So when the trunk is open, his feet spring out. He's got the kind of strength that could make that kind of kick feel really powerful. Naturally they're going to open fire on him. Naturally, it's not going to matter with his teeth healing factor. The mob boss known as Hammerhead knows that pain doesn't really mean much to a guy like Wade. So he's going to try to hurt someone who means something to him.
Percy has a solid grasp for the kind of dark humor. That is absolutely necessary to keep a guy I like way to occupied. It's hard to get humor. Just write in something like this. All too often it comes across as being too unctuous. Too cheesy. Percy has a solid grasp on the right kind of classy slant. Wilson comes across as a remarkably sharp guy, even as he's getting banged around the way he has been.
Shaw seems perfectly well aware of how exactly to exaggerate things for Deadpool’s end of the Marvel universe. All too often artists have a tendency to make it look a little bit too cartoonish. There's a real greediness too the Shaw renders Wilson's world. It goes a long way towards tilting things and just the right way to capture the right kind of humor. Sinclair's colors, add considerable darkness and depth to the visuals as they pound their way across the page. It's a remarkably stylish book for being one. That's just so repetitious with the percussiveness of the violence.
Wilson is a natural fit for the mob. The Maggia is also a group that rarely gets the right kind of treatment. Over the decades, writers have tried and failed to bring the mafia into the Marvel universe. It's really difficult to manage the over the top darkness of gritty street level crime in a world of magic, gods and alien entities. Percy and Company do a really good job of fusing the mob energy with the weird and humorously dark demeanor of a guy like Wade Wilson. It's not terribly deep stuff and they overall energy has been explored a million times before. But it's fun to see it given life on the page with a distinctly humorous bent.
