Night of the Living Deadpool #1 Review!

Hello everybody, Donlinedude here and welcome to my review of Night of the Living Deadpool #1.

Synopsis:

After falling into a chimichanga food coma (man I hate it when that happens), Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool awakens to find his favourite restaurant deserted. Hearing a scream of agony nearby, Deadpool decides to investigate, discovering a note from the owners telling him that he's been a loyal customer and that the doors were locked to keep him safe from the now dilapidated outside world.

After going through his recent memories (in which he fails to notice the obvious signs of a zombie outbreak), Wade is soon approached by someone, who turns out to be one of the undead with surprisingly refined diction. Deadpool disposes of him, but accidentally alerts a whole herd of zombies by shooting him with his pistol. The Merc with a Mouth begins racking up kill points, but he quickly becomes unsettled by the fact that the zombies maintain their human intelligence with no control over their body, eventually opting to flee. He merely bumps into more zombies however, and is left cornered.

Just as Deadpool is about to resume his "zombie killing spree" (anyone whose played Halo will understand that reference), a bunch of human survivors arrive in a truck and mow down several of the infected, giving Pool a chance to hop in and escape with them. Now on their way to "the safe zone", these people bring Wade up to speed with what's been going on. He asks about the other heroes, only to be told pretty bluntly that he's the only one left, punctuated as they drive past Captain America's bloodstained shield...

Thoughts:

There's not much to talk about here in terms of plot, as Cullen Bunn spends much of this issue setting up this post-apocalyptic world Deadpool finds himself in and the characters who populate it. It's all very well done, with a few little touches that render it just that little bit unique from standard zombie fare, and I'm certainly very interested to discover how exactly this particular plague was created. Since this series is following on from the multiversal insanity that was Deadpool Kills Deadpool, it's certainly possible that this is the work of Evil Deadpool and perhaps Deadpool has even been transported into the Marvel Zombies universe, though since that storyline was closed out in a recursive loop, it's not very likely.

This being a Deadpool comic, there are plenty of gags present, with many giving the zombie genre a good ribbing. The flashback sequence seemed rather reminiscent of Shaun of the Dead, and the reference to the genre's takeover of the video game industry was particularly amusing. Ramon Rosanna's art also contains a reference to Tony Moore's (who also drew the Dead Presidents arc for the new Deadpool ongoing) style on The Walking Dead, though Deadpool still appears bright red, perhaps to show how he represents the only colour that world has left (okay, now I'm getting too analytical). The pencils and inks are very polished and detailed, and the layouts are framed really well, not to mention that the undead look particularly decrepit here. As with his last awesome Deadpool project, Bunn has made a cracking good start and I'm sure that there's more to this simple premise than meets the eye...

Score: 4.0/5.0 

And just some food for thought, but wouldn't it be awesome if Capcom did a Dead Rising game with Deadpool as the main character (they are on good footing with Marvel nowadays)?...