Cable & Deadpool #37
Marvel Comics

Writer: Fabian Nicieza
Artist: Staz Johnson

At first I was a little frustrated that I picked up nothing but books that are in the middle of ongoing storylines, but then it occurred to me so much the better. If this column is supposed to reflect the accessibility of comics nowadays, why not make it as challenging as possible.

This brings us to the latest issue of Cable & Deadpooyou know what? I’m just going to type “and” from now on, because hitting shift + 8 to make an ampersand is a huge pain in the ass.

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Cable AND Deadpool! Yes! So we pick up in what appears to be part two of a two-issue storyline (oh fuck remember those). Deadpool wakes up in a hospital bed after being drugged by some woman at a bar, and wakes up after having been exposed to Pym particles, thus being shrunk to about an inch tall.

So again, Deadpool hits up a hooker at the bar (offering her eight dollars) and wakes up Ant-Man size.

God, I love comics.

I was a little big confused about the overall plot of the book, I guess it ties in to a previous storyline where ‘Pool shrunk The Rhino down and fit him to a keyring (amazing), and there’s the question of if Cable has top-billing in this book, why the hell isn’t he, you know, IN IT? But I don’t like Cable anyway, and i’m assuming he’s caught up in the X-Books right now, leaving Nicieza to play with Deadpool and his subplots. Which, again, serves me fine.

I was a huge fan of Joe Kelly’s Deadpool series in the 90’s, but after it got entirely too dark during the second year, I had to drop it and haven’t looked back since. This book really sold me on the humor, though it was a little confusing at parts, and didn’t really give me a clear idea of what the book is about. Still, if Nicieza writes this good of a Deadpool every issue, I might even be able to stand Cable farting around and having large shoulderpads.

Pull or Drop?

Pull. But again, this is more or less a filler issue. A damn good one, but filler none-the-less. Once Cable turds his way into the book again, we’ll see how long it stays on the pull list. Yes I used “turd” as an adjective. My mom will be thrilled.