Friday, April 22, 2016

Spider-Man/Deadpool #4



Spider-Man/Deadpool, Issue #4 is about Spider-Man and Deadpool going on a double date.  Spider-Man, in the guise of Leonardo Dicaprio, an African-American entrepreneur, is dating Jenny, a beautiful workaholic with whom Spider-Man gets along with swimmingly.  Deadpool's date is Thor.  And of course there's a girl-fight.  And a man-dance-off.  How could Spider-Man and Deadpool's bromance go wrong?  Oh, yeah.  Deadpool is bent on killing Peter Parker, who unbeknownst to him is Spider-Man.

Ed McGuinness is the penciler, and he does a good job portraying Thor in the low-light situation of a bar.  Jason Keith is the color artist, and I could go on and on about what I like about his colors.  There are a lot of reds, yellows, and oranges, with occasional greens and blues to set them off.  VC's Joe Sabino is the letterer, and while his "Asgardian" letters aren't exactly the same as in Thor, they're still really good, and I like them.

I've really enjoyed the Spider-Man/Deadpool comic so far.  They play well off each other, and this is a particularly good issue.  The dance-off is well done, with Spider-Man break dancing and Deadpool barely moving, like a sixth-grader at a sock hop.  I've read the first trade paperback of the female Thor, but I never imagined she could be this funny.  Of course, she's drawn a little differently than in the Thor comics, as there are different artists in each title.  The cliffhanger ending is spectacular.

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