Zombies presidents trucidant citizens and Deadpool in Marylin Monroe

This volume contains episodes 1-6 of the series started in 2013. The screenplay is by Brian Posehn and Gerry Dugan, drawings and inking Tony Moore, and blankets Geoff Darrow. This series was relaunched as part of operation "Marvel NOW", the previous having been written by Daniel Way. This story can be read without special knowledge of Deadpool.

Michael (a necromancer, dressed in a uniform of SHIELD, with a kilt) decided to revive the presidents of the United States through incantations contained in a scrawl, that they save the country from the state lapse in which it is located. Problem; dead presidents believe that the state of decay of the nation was due to Americans themselves, they decide to eradicate. Captain America who was photographed being beheaded Harry Truman, SHIELD prefers to launch a covert operation, rather than risk further as catastrophic images for the morale of the nation.

Emily Preston agent the idea of ​​engaging Deadpool after seeing slay zombie Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his wheelchair. The carnage begins. But soon begins to have Deadpool mink ghost of Benjamin Franklin, and Preston agent realizes she needs a supernatural help to find how to fight effectively against these stubborn zombies. An expert in occult sciences: Stephen Strange.

With each new writer, the character of Deadpool is reinvented. Posehn and Duggan have chosen to retain the component of ultra-violence, black humor, unbridled action and the remarks for the reader. First approach to this new series: the covers of Geoff Darrow. You can always count on him to not to skimp on the details cartridge cases How has he been able to draw well on the cover? 100? 200? And why this monster he swallowed 13 cats? A pink flamingo on an elephant tusk?

Second stage of the discovery of this new series: the designs of Tony Moore. This is an artist whose style is quite realistic with a good ability to exaggerate facial expressions and bring out the gore and comic moments. Editorial officials made the right choice with this designer brings his competence as a humorous side that bears much of the series regardless of the level of the scenario. On the first page, the images convince the reader that indeed there is something rotten in the United States and that citizens are responsible. He just has to see this redneck in military surplus to attack a Rasta in a poll to understand the implication on racism but also to the far right militarist and use drugs associated with the Rastafarian lifestyle. Both the player enters this implied stereotyped, and both he understands that this is a humorous caricature.

The first clash opposes Captain America (right in his boots) to the Necromancer. Captain America appears both righteous and preachy, but also quick-tempered against the stupidity of the Necromancer. The latter has a holding both ridiculous (kilt and leotard SHIELD) and reveals a mix of new age beliefs. So Moore will give life to improbable and endearing characters. Impossible not to feel empathy for the poor Preston agent, his body plump, his facial expressions showing that she is stuck with a mission impossible, and authoritarianism. Deadpool has a rather slender body, instead of being hyper muscular. He often has a smile, and his scars are beautiful to see (missing patches of skin revealing the muscles underneath).

Moore clearly takes pleasure in representing the parodic violence required by the script, both realistically and both with a very black humor. One example will suffice: in the first episode, Deadpool out of the belly of a big not beautiful monster by cutting his stomach from the inside. It is covered with guts and blood dripping. It is dirty, with a humorous effect generated by the enormity of the situation is huge and gore. Moore is also a lot of fun with the facial expressions of the dead presidents, being butchered or exterminate American means they consider unfit to live in this glorious nation (or Deadpool). You have to see the closed mine and severe Abraham Lincoln fighting against Deadpool on a ring.

Brian Posehn (actor and comedian) and Gerry Duggan (writer for television) have a clear vision of what they want to do with the character. They leave a wacky idea where all the dead presidents of the United States are reanimated as zombies, with the idea to kill all Americans, because leaders of the nation's decline.

The story has a strong internal logic that requires the reader to accept two principles out of the ordinary. (1) The Deadpool recovery power allows him to recover from everything, to the point that jumps from a plane in mid-flight to parachute without crashing to the ground knowing he has regained his health by 5 minutes, or a dead president shoots him in the head at close range, without killing him. (2) This is a joke, that is to say Posehn and Duggan will allow to use the absurd, sending him flying the possible and the impossible. They do not do it frequently (2 or 3 times) but in this case, the reader is requested to accept the outcome of the scene like that, without requiring logic other than that of the absurd.

Posehn and Duggan were the type to accumulate more or less funny valves until the accumulation of good mood and pikes and eventually outweigh the quality ... and it works. Impossible not to smile at such verve, such a flow. Plus, they are not content to debit the joke kilometer (about the foibles of presidents past for posterity), they push through the initial situation of these presidents committing terrorist acts with manic exuberance. They type in several comic books: Situation (Deadpool ripped on an elephant tusk, beware that task), behavior (Deadpool dressed as Marylin Monroe, highly transgressive and repugnant), dialogues (watch it all goes valve), character ( Stephen Strange haughty and contemptuous vis-à-vis Deadpool, very well seen), without limits (Deadpool in space, essential), player (Deadpool speaking directly to the reader), etc. It is just possible to blame them jokes that do not always fly very high, and a form of repetition in situations (especially Deadpool spouting presidents zombies with weapons that do not allow him to kill them).

As part of the relaunch "Marvel NOW" Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan and Tony Moore play the game by offering a slightly different approach to the character Deadpool, accessible to new readers, funny, violent and gory, politically incorrect, despite one or two facilities in the scenario.