We’ve come a long way since Deadpool first embarked on his quest to wipe out the Marvel universe. He’s fought through legions of legendary superheroes, British detectives, and even whales to get here, and now only one thing stands in his way…himself. That’s right, as the title suggests Deadpool is in fact now on a quest to destroy every version of himself in every multiverse and he’s going to bring us along for every brilliantly violent moment of it.
The book instantly drops us into a massive action set piece and the action never really lets up from this point. It isn’t a book which features a deep story or deep characters. Everything is very clichéd and simple, but this works as the basic backbone the book needs for the crazy action antics that Deadpool and his cohorts get up to. The many versions of Deadpool are brilliant with my personal favourite being Pandapool. That’s right, Deadpool (well, the good Deadpool) fights alongside a panda version of himself.
With so many Deadpools running around, you’d have thought it’d get confusing and you’d be right. While certain versions stand out a fair few get confusing, which does have an impact on the action that is being portrayed in the panels. The confusion between Deadpools is probably the books biggest fault, but not for the reason I mentioned above. This book follows the normal earth 616 Deadpool who is good (well, as good as Deadpool can be), instead of the Deadpool who is travelling around the multiverses killing all of the other versions. This for me felt weird, as we are following a different version to the one from the first two books in the trilogy. This makes it a much lighter tale in the fact we are following and rooting for the good version, but I’m confused as to why this route was taken in the storytelling.
So we reach the end of one of the most enjoyable (although not necessarily best) comic sagas I have read in recent years. As individual books each is a fun ride, but read together they flow with such a crazily fast pace you’d expect to get left behind, but you don’t. I’ve really warmed to the whole ‘killogy’ and am really happy that I gave it a read. I’m not sure if I’m still completely sold on Deadpool as a character, but this has definitely made me interested in reading more.