Written by Gerry Duggan
Penciled by Pepe Larraz
Cover by Adam Kubert
Published February 22, 2017
Cover by Adam Kubert
Published February 22, 2017
Red Skull has captured all of the Unity Squad by using Quicksilver to lure them all in. Once there, he took control of all of them using Professor X's telepathic brain. Luckily, Deadpool was able to call Wong and Spider-Man to help him out. Wong tells Spidey that it's odd hearing Red Skull's voice through his friends. Using Synapse, he renders the three of them nearly incapacited by nausea and vertigo. Next, Johnny Storm flies up to roast them but Spider-Man throws a grenade at a fire hydrant, knocking him out of the sky. Quicksilver knocks Spider-Man into a wall and he throws a web bomb, which Deadpool shoots and activates. Wong uses a spell on Dr Voodoo and keeps him at bay while Spidey webs up Human Torch.
Suddenly Deadpool has a plan. He tells Spider-Man to web him up and throw him to Avengers Mansion. He launches him and on the flight, Deadpool plans to take out Rogue first. He's distracted upon his arrival since the Mansion has essentially been turned into a cosplay nightmare. Red Skull uses the civilians to attack him and Deadpool uses a smoke bomb to escape. Dragging a mocked up Black Panther and Storm to safety, he knows the only other threat besides Rogue is Red Skull's daughter, Sin. His plan for dealing with her is simple - he just punches the shit out of her, knocking her out. Rogue won't be as easy.
He pulls open a door and there stands Red Skull in the flesh (or lack thereof). All it takes is a millisecond's pause however and Rogue blind sights him. Red Skull tells him he gave him quite a scare while Deadpool pumps bullets into Rogue. Each one bounces off and she finally punches completely through him in one glorious page sized panel full of gore. Finally Red Skull tells him he's retiring for a meal. Sin asks why he isn't going to watch Rogue completely destroy the Unity Squad and he tells her there's no need. He can experience every blow from Rogue's mind... Every life she snuffs, every heart that stops beating, He can prolong each painful last moment to savor it that much more. The issue concludes with him telling Deadpool that if it's true he cannot die, perhaps he just hasn't ever met someone motivated enough. He tells Red Skull to why not come downstairs and do it himself? "HAH! That's the spirit" he says wiping his chin, and with that we're left to be continued.
You know, for a character who they don't even own the film rights to, Marvel sure loves Deadpool. If it's not in his own book which is published bi-monthly, or the mercs spinoff or him and Spider-Man or whatever, it's in his own Avengers book, where Gerry Duggan can continue to make it all about this one character. I can kinda dig it, I mean I like Deadpool. But I like Cable and Human Torch and those dudes too. And don't let me lead you to believe this story isn't good, because it totally is. I just wish it was a little more inclusive. When you have so much to pull from, don't make it all about one guy. I give it a 7/10 and hope it bumps up before so many of these characters get pulled back to the X-Mansion.
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