Spider-Man/Deadpool, Issue #11 guest stars Penn & Teller, and it's written by Penn Jillette, writing as Penn Jillette, the character and the writer. It's Deadpool, remember? And Spider-Man is along for the ride! The comic starts out with Deadpool playing Texas Hold-em with Jillette, and if he loses, he and Teller have to switch places. That means that Penn gets to do his show with someone with a healing factor, and Teller gets to fight crime (somehow) with Spider-Man.
This is a pretty good issue, although it isn't my favorite of the guest-writer issues they've done on this series, even though all of them have been good. It never really lags, even when Spider-Man and Teller fight a tarot-wielding meta-human, a scene in which Teller gets to use his own special abilities. I found the comic on a whole to be quite clever. Usually, when a celebrity writes a comic, he or she only writes a few lines and has the regular writers come up with the rest. The problem with that theory is that no other writer is listed. No Joe Kelly, no nobody. If Penn Jillette wrote this entirely himself, which I think he did, I have to give him a hell of a lot of credit.
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