{"id":1334,"date":"2009-12-10T00:10:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T06:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2009-12-29T00:11:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T06:11:13","slug":"ultimate-spider-man-deadpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Spider-Man: Deadpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

I almost wish, if only for half a moment, that Bendis would write a bad, nay, even a merely mediocre run of Ultimate Spider-Man, just so I\u2019d have something new to say. \u201cIt\u2019s just so good! You\u2019ll love it!\u201d Whatever, man. I\u2019m losing all credibility over here. But, okay, why do I love it\u00a0this<\/em> time? I have an answer to that. Now and again, one of the series will focus on a character with whom I\u2019m unfamiliar, and the author will seem to be so proud of having worked that character into the Ultimate continuity that the book just coasts on recognition factor without really trying to be actually good in its own right. In fairness, that plan has worked on me when I did recognize whatever new character it was, but for the many times when I do not, the laziness outshines everything else.<\/p>\n

Except this time, not so much. I\u2019m not particularly familiar with\u00a0Deadpool<\/a>, and really all I know about him is that in\u00a0the Wolverine movie<\/a> earlier this year, he was maybe kind of indestructible? That character is largely dissimilar to this one, in any event. But, and here\u2019s the part where I fulfill the inevitable gushiness quotient, Bendis went ahead and wrote a fine plot around the advent of Ultimate Deadpool. See, Spider-Man gets mixed up in a plot to murder the X-Men on broadcast television[1], and this guy Deadpool is the main hunter. But despite all kinds of mutant powers and explosions of exactly the types that a superhero comic needs to have to maintain credibility[2], most of the focus is on Peter and the delightfully unconfident Kitty Pryde, his recent paramour. Because, as has consistently been the case throughout the USM run, Peter Parker\u2019s life is the important thing; super-villains and web fluid alike take the back seat. This is why it works. But also, Aunt May has a hot date, so I guess maybe it isn\u2019t\u00a0always<\/em> about Pete after all. Then, for a change of pace, vampires! And more friendship trouble with Mary Jane! And the Kingpin! But I\u2019ll glance at that last bit in my next review.<\/p>\n

[1] Which is actually a callback to a previous UXM storyline, but I forget which one. It was alright, in any event.
\n[2] Unlike me, you see, is the thread tying this review together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I almost wish, if only for half a moment, that Bendis would write a bad, nay, even a merely mediocre run of Ultimate Spider-Man, just so I\u2019d have something new to say. \u201cIt\u2019s just so good! You\u2019ll love it!\u201d Whatever, man. I\u2019m losing all credibility over here. But, okay, why do I love it\u00a0this time? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,38,40],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-marvel","tag-ultimate-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}