Intro to Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth
“Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth” Miniseries Issues #1-#13
While a little long at 13 issues, the Merc with a Mouth miniseries is the perfect introduction to the character without requiring too much back-story.
Marvel’s evil science dorks, Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM), hire Deadpool to retrieve a bio-weapon from the savage land, Marvel’s version of “The Land That Time Forgot”, where dinosaurs and cavemen still roam. He’ll have to retrieve the weapon from the clutches of Hydra (the evil group that gave Captain America such a hard time in “The Winter Soldier”) and things are complicated even further when Wade discovers the so-called bio-weapon is actually the zombified head of a Deadpool from the alternate Marvel zombies universe!
While the plot is pretty wacky, the miniseries provides the key points you need to know about the character; he’s always joking (even when burning up upon atmospheric re-entry), he’ll kill hundreds of background characters without a blinking an eye but if a character is around for a few pages (and isn’t wholly evil) he may end up sparing them, and when push comes to shove, he will try to be a hero and do the right thing, if/when it finally occurs to him to do so.
Oh, and he has talks to separate distinct voices in his own head and will happily sing “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” (aka In The Jungle, The Mighty Jungle” with his own decapitated zombified head.
While the film version won’t feature quite so many mainstays of the Marvel universe (Fox, the makers of the film, only have the rights to the X-Men and associated characters), do expect plenty of X-men to crop up.
The series also features some fun art work by Bong Dazo and Joe Piemtel, which does veer into cheesecake when it comes to the female characters, and excellent covers by Arthur Suydam that homage classic movie posters such as Jaws, Pretty Woman and Alien.
